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Twenty years running from your past. Today it catches up. A gripping psychological thriller for fans of  Gone Girl  and  The Girl on the Train .   Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life or friends until – longing for a connection – she meets Julian. For the first time she dares to believe she can live a normal life.  Then, on the twentieth anniversary of  that  day, she receives a card.  Someone knows the truth about what happened.  Someone who won’t stop until they’ve destroyed the life Leah has created.  But is Leah all she seems? Or does she deserve everything she gets?  Everyone has secrets. But some are deadly. This book began well for me - I was intrigued about what it was that Leah had done, something that was so awful she had no life. She begins to receive cards, emails, someone knows what she did. Still intriguing, st...

Endearingly flawed and battered-around-the-edges, Charlotte has managed to fashion herself a life that balances marriage and a writing career, but now Esmé, the charming friend Charlotte betrayed at university, stands at Charlotte’s door: Surprise! Charlotte yearns to make amends, but she’s wary. Esmé makes no mention of Charlotte’s old betrayal and the two resume their friendship, but soon enough a request from Esmé will upend Charlotte’s careful world.  Suspenseful, witty, with spot-on evocations of university life in the late 1980s,  As Good as Dead  performs an exquisite psychological high-wire act, exploring loves and friendships poisoned by secrets and fears. I settled down with this book hoping for a really intriguing read. Unfortunately my intrigue waned when the book began to weave back and forth and bring in issues from the past. I read on hoping that these would be integral to the story - which they were, but it was so drawn out that when we came back to t...

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They say it’s better to battle the devil you know. But what if you don’t recognize him before it’s too late? She knows her name is Amelia, but after waking up in a hospital battered and bruised with just the clothes on her back, it’s all she knows. Unable to piece together her shattered memory, she’s haunted by a vision: menacing faces and voices implying her nightmare is far from over. Relying only on her wits and her will to live, Amelia becomes a fugitive from a mysterious man, and a life she can’t even remember. But the past she’s fleeing has no intention of letting her go. I've really enjoyed reading this book. The author is in fact two people but this doesn't show at all in the writing it flowed seamlessly. They have eleven crime fiction awards, so I should have known it would be good, but I didn't read any of that before I began the book. For me the characters voices in this book were so credible, I really felt like I got to know them, especially Ameli...

Christmas is just around the corner but the women of The Chocolate Lovers' Club have more to worry about than present shopping . . .  Lucy  loves running Chocolate Heaven but she hasn't spent time with her boyfriend, Aiden, in weeks. And then her ex-fiance turns up and things become even more complicated.  Nadia  hasn't let herself get close to a man in a long time, yet she can't help feeling drawn to Jacob. Will he be her last chance for a happy ending? Chantal  and her husband, Ted, are besotted with their baby daughter Lana - but she's not sure that's enough to base a marriage on. Autumn  is dealing with a tragedy that has hit too close to home. But when she doesn't get the support she needs from her fiance, will she look elsewhere for comfort? Can friendship overcome all in . . .  The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas . This is the third book in the chocolate Lovers' series by Carole Matthews and I have read them all. Consistently a feel go...