Dash Fan Book Reviews

Dastardly Deeds at St Bride's  by Debbie Young Thank you to Netgalley and Boldwood Books for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷    Book Information For anyone who loved St Trinian’s – old or new – or read Malory Towers as a kid. St Brides is the perfect read for you. When Gemma Lamb takes a job at a quirky English girls’ boarding school, she believes she’s found the perfect escape route from her controlling boyfriend – until she discovers the rest of the staff are hiding sinister secrets: • Hairnet, the eccentric headmistress who doesn't hold with academic qualifications • Oriana Bliss, Head of Maths and master of disguise • Joscelyn Spryke, the suspiciously rugged Head of PE • Geography teacher Mavis Brook, surreptitiously selling off the library books • creepy night watchman Max Security, with his network of hidden tunnels Even McPhee, the school cat, is leading a double life. Tucked away i...

Rain City Lights by Marissa Harrison I would like to thank R&R Book Toirs for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information Publication Date: October 1st, 2021 (Hardcover Edition) Genre:  NA/ NA Mystery Coming of age and mystery blend in this stark, yet atmospheric tale of love and loss. A young woman is pushed onto the streets where she learns the harsh realities of what it means to survive, to serve justice, and to fight for the man she loves. As they navigate their way through Seattle’s Underground, Monti & Sasha will break and warm your heart! In the summer of 1981, a serial killer preys on black, teenage prostitutes working Seattle’s arterial highways. But the eyes of youth are blind to danger, and Montgomery “Monti” Jackson is distracted by her own problems. She’ll be starting high school soon, and the return of her mother’s boyfriend heightens the tension in her fractured household. To add to her worries, ...

The Cult  by Abby Davies I would like to thank Insta Book Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃 Book Information The gripping new thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! ‘Such a clever plot; a sinister decades-old cult and a modern-day missing children mystery, brilliantly woven together’ Jackie Kabler, author of  The Perfect Couple A hidden community… Thirty years ago, in the English countryside, a commune was set up. Led by Uncle Saviour, it was supposed to be a place of love, peace and harmony. But what started out as paradise turned into hell.   A shocking abduction… Now, two young children have vanished from their home in the middle of the night. Their parents are frantic, the police are at a loss.   A twisting case… DI Ottoline is leading the search – her only clue a mask found in the woods. Could the key lie in events that took place decades...

Lunar  By Martin Tracey I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour  🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻    Book Information Amidst ancient stories of prowling werewolves, the Lunar Society would meet under the light of a full moon to change the face of industry and enlightenment forever. When the discovery of a human skeleton at one of their old haunts coincides with the disappearance of a talented female prodigy, Private investigator Judd Stone is certain that the two are connected. Travelling as far afield as Prague and as close as his native city of Birmingham, Judd includes past life regressions in an attempt to unlock the explosive age-old mystery and rescue the missing girl. With a cloud descending over the treasured legacy of the Lunar Society, Judd quickly finds himself embroiled in a shockingly dark underworld of organised crime. So dark in fact he will need a lot more than the light of a full moon to escape with his life. ...

THE TWO FATHERS  by Keith Dixon  I would like to thank Damppebbles Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information Why does Jessica Hastings come home late several times a week? Her husband asks Private Investigator Sam Dyke this simple question. Dyke doesn’t want the case: he doesn’t do divorce work … but Brian Hastings doesn’t want a divorce, he wants an explanation. When Sam finds out what Jessica is doing, it opens up more questions. And when Brian Hastings goes missing, they’re questions he feels compelled to answer. At the centre of the mystery is a man who most people in Manchester don’t know—Larry Stone. But those who do know him, know that far from being the simple florist he seems to be, he’s actually the biggest crook in town. He’s powerful, he’s dangerous, and he’s currently working a deal with a Dutchman who’s even worse. And Sam is now caught in Stone’s sights as he works to find Brian Hastings, to solve a couple ...

THE LAST WITCH  by Sabina Gabrielli Carrara I would like to thank Damppebbles Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information Back in 1974, the dormant Irish village of Seacross is shocked by the gruesome circumstances of young Margaret Morehouse’s death. Forty-five years later history seems to repeat itself and the quiet life of the coastal Irish village is suddenly shaken by a series of ritualistic murders. Someone had broken the pact of secrecy to obtain justice, but if the truth comes out nobody will be spared, from the future Taoiseach to the local men of power. Purchase Links: Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/3cbvrUZ Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2Y6ZFA5   Publishing Information: Published in paperback and digital formats by The Green Bat on 23 rd October 2020 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  My Review 4☆ An Enthralling and Gripping Murder Mystery. THE LAST WITCH is a thrilling and Compelling murder mystery. The first book in ...