Source: Review copyPublication: 4 December 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13:978-1916788985 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review They feared the machines. They should have feared the people… London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from BantamPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0857506900 My thanks to Penguin Bantam for a review copy The Nazis were never defeated. They were just biding their time... Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital.

Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.  Molly Gray is not like everyo…

Today it is over to Mandie who is sharing her review of The Fracture by Morgan Cry. A big thank you to the publisher, Severn House, for the advance copy via Netgalley. Here's what the book is about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 04 November 2025

Source: Review copyPublication: 20 November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788923 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Twenty-three years ago, a young woman was murdered on the Swedish island of Lidingö. The island has kept its silence. Until now… As autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenaged boys are murdered.

Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand – the town her Uncle Pike escaped as a teenager, the moment he got a chance.

Source: Review copy:Publication: 13 November 2025 from Harvill & SeckerPP: 384ISBN-13:978-1787302785 My thanks to Harvill Secker for a review copy In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder?

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1916788824 My thanks to Orenda Books for a review copy Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble… Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he’s desperate.

I’m not a big fan of November: too early to look forward to Christmas, too late to enjoy the autumn air. Thank goodness, then, for Aye Write, which fills ten days of the month with plenty of bookish goodness across Glasgow. What a delight it is! There’s something for everyone, from science and nature to biography and fiction. There’s crime fiction (hurrah), literary fiction, romantasy, and everything in between.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1916788848 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her disappearance – is found dead at the same site where Ísafold’s body was discovered, Áróra’s grip on reality starts to unravel … and the mystery remains far from solved.

Source: Review copyPublication: 21 October from Hodder & StoughtonPP: 416ISBN-13: 978-1399703413 SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from SpherePP: 448ISBN-13: 978-1408734025 My thanks to Laura Sherlock and Sphere for a review copy The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from ZaffrePP: 384ISBN-13: 978-1804188651 My thanks to Zaffre for an advance copy for review Vaseem Khan’s Quantum of Menace is a bold, entertaining spin-off that takes the James Bond universe and explores the world of Q, the MI5 gadget genius. The story opens with Major Boothroyd being unceremoniously ejected from MI6. BeHe’s hardly begun to adjust to the quiet calm of his hometown, Wickstone-on-Water, before his forced retirement is interrupted by the death of an old friend, Peter Napier.

Source: Review copyPublication: 21 October 2025 from OrionPP: 400ISBN-13:978-1398719064 My thanks to Orion for a review copy Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial. An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?

Aftershock by Liz McSkeane (Oct 14th ,Turas Press) is a powerful & dramatic tale, educational in its insights &0 shocking in its storytelling

Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to…

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 from Fourth EstatePP: 352ISBN-13:978-0008534912 My thanks to Fourth Estate for a review copyIn the inner circle, where can you hide a secret? In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.

Venetian Vespers by John Banville publishes September 25th with Faber & Faber and is described as 'this autumn’s eeriest novel'.