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  SINOPSIS Nadie puede enterrar el pasado para siempre. El plan de Anne parecía perfecto: un verano en la vieja casa familiar de la Ribera Navarra para aclararse las ideas, reencontrarse con los amigos de la infancia y bailar hasta el amanecer en un festival de música. Pero el destino guarda sorpresas que pueden ser muy peligrosas. Cuando llega a su tan ansiado refugio, Anne se entera de que han aparecido enterrados unos extraños huesos en el jardín de la casa. Y eso no es todo. Gabriel, subinspector de la policía Foral, entra en escena para investigar los sucesos y reconstruir una trama que resultará cada vez más sorprendente y aterradora. ¿Pueden unos misterios del pasado entrañar una amenaza cada vez más cercana? Título: La música de los huesos Autor: Nagore Suárez Editorial: Ediciones B Fecha de publicación: 10 Septiembre 2020 RESEÑA VALORACIÓN: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ¿Estás atravesando un bache lector y necesitas un libro de esos que enganchan desde la primera página y no puedes parar de leer hasta

  SYNOPSIS Eleven murders. Twenty-five years ago. Are some truths better left buried? On 15th June 1994, Travis Green - husband, father, upstanding citizen - walked through the streets of Hartstead and killed eleven of his neighbours. The final victim was four-year-old Cassie Colman's father. As the twenty-five year anniversary approaches, Cassie would rather forget the past - even as her mother struggles to remember it at all. Then something hidden in her mother's possessions suggests those eleven murders were not what everyone believes. Once Cassie suspects she's been lied to about the most important event of her life, she can't stop digging up the past. But someone will do anything to keep it buried. Title: The anniversary Author: Laura Marshall Publisher: Sphere Publication date: August 5, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ June 15th, 1994 marked the day the town of Hartshead became infamous after Travis Green went on a killing spree, murdering ten people and then taking his

  SYNOPSIS An unforgettable discovery In 1922, Lady Evelyn Herbert’s dreams are realised when she is the first to set foot inside the lost tomb of Tutankhamun for over 3,000 years. A cursed life But the months after the discovery are marred by tragedy, when Eve’s father dies suddenly and her family is torn in two. Desperate to put the past behind her, Eve retreats into a private life with her new husband. A deadly choice But she is harbouring a dark secret about what really happened in Egypt. And when a young woman comes asking questions years later, the happiness Eve has finally found is threatened once more. Title: The collector's daughter Author: Gill Paul Publisher: Avon Publication date: September 30, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ If there’s a time period that absolutely fascinates me is Ancient Egypt, so I love reading stories about archaeology and egyptology and the discovery of the pharaoh’s tombs and so on. If you add some real life characters I can google and that they lived i

  SYNOPSIS She lifted up her granddaughter from the cot, clutched her to her chest and, without looking at her beautiful daughter lying dead on the floor of her bedroom, ran from the house. Only when she was outside did she let a wail escape her lips, frightening the baby who joined in her screams. When Isabel Gallagher is found murdered on the floor of her baby’s nursery by her mother, it’s a gruelling case for Detective Lottie Parker. Isabel’s pyjamas have been ripped, her throat cut and an old-fashioned razor blade placed in her hand. As Lottie looks at the round blue eyes and perfect chubby cheeks of Isabel’s baby daughter, she can’t understand who would want to hurt this innocent family. That very same day she receives a call with devastating news. Another young mother, Joyce Breslin, has gone missing, and her four-year-old son Evan has been abducted from daycare. Lottie is sure that the missing mother and son are linked to Isabel’s death, and when she finds a bloody razor blade i

  SYNOPSIS ‘He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.’   Tess’s number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe.   When she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, among her daughter’s brightly coloured paintings, Tess is convinced that Poppy has witnessed something terrible. Something that her young mind is struggling to put into words.   But no one will listen. It’s only a child’s drawing, isn’t it?   Tess will protect Poppy, whatever the price. But when she doesn’t know what, or who, she is protecting her from, how can she possibly know who to trust?   Title: The Unheard Author: Nicci French Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Publication date: September 16, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ When Tess’ daughter Poppy starts acting out after a weekend with her dad, Tess suspects she may have witnessed some kind of crime. The disturbing drawing Poppy did seems to i

SINOPSIS ¿Qué pasaría si solo conocieras sus ojos y sucumbieses a su mirada? ¿Y si esa mirada te empezase a seguir anticipándose a tus deseos, la encontrases en todas partes y la atracción inicial se convirtiera en la sensación de estar permanentemente bajo observación? ¿Quién se está adelantando a tus pensamientos, a tus movimientos? ¿Por qué lo hace? ¿Para qué? Junto a la irresistible fascinación que empiezas a sentir por quien está detrás de esos ojos y el desconcierto y la necesidad de resolver el misterio, empieza a crecer un miedo a lo desconocido que nunca antes habías sentido. Esta es la historia de Nora Salinas. Una respetada jueza con una vida aparentemente normal, pero con un pasado tenebroso que irrumpe en su presente. Título: Soy tu mirada Autor: Cristina Higueras Editorial: La esfera de los libros Fecha de publicación: 7 Julio 2021 RESEÑA VALORACIÓN: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cristina Higueras vuelva a la novela negra tras varios años que, a mí en particular, se me han hecho larguísimos. Si

SYNOPSIS It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them? Title: The Man Who Died Twice Author: Richard Osman Series: The Thursday Murder Club #2 Publisher: Viking Publication date: September 16, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Last year I absolutely adored The Thursday Murder Club so the bar was pretty high, but The Man Who Died Twice was even better! I’d be surprised if it didn’t make my favorites

  SYNOPSIS Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own. Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips―but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he―or she―know the truth? Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she's terrified someone is determined to destroy her world―and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear. How much will she risk to keep her perfect life? And what if the spotlight is the most dangerous place of all? Title: Her Perfect Life Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Publisher: Forge Books Publication date: September 14, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐💫 I had never read a Hank Phillippi Ryan book before but I decided to give this one

SYNOPSIS They went away as friends They came back as suspects . . . Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée. To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend get-away together in Portugal. It’s a chance to relax and get to know Ali a little better perhaps. A newcomer to their group, she seems perfectly nice and Will seems happy after years of bad choices. But Ali is hiding more than one secret . . . By the end of the weekend there’ll be one dead body and five people with guilty consciences wondering if they really know each other so well after all. Because one of them has to be the killer. Title: The Guilt Trip Author: Sandie Jones Publisher: Pan Publication date: August 19, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐ If there’s one thing literature has taught me is that destination weddings are never a good idea, unless you want to become a widow quickly, so you know, if you’re thinking of getti

  SYNOPSIS When Lady Swift is invited to her old school, she walks through familiar classrooms, finds her favourite books in the library… and surely that’s not a body? Time for a lesson in murder! Autumn, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift is invited to her old school, St Mary’s, as a guest speaker. Her favourite teacher, Mrs Wadsworth, has asked that Eleanor talk about her intrepid travels around the globe – travelling the Silk Road by bicycle, crossing the Himalayas and even befriending the Maharaja of India. But in the circumstances, perhaps it would have been a good idea to talk about her career as a daring detective… Because no sooner has Eleanor brushed up on her times tables then she is greeted by terrible news: Mrs Wadsworth has been murdered. Eleanor is utterly devastated but she owes it to her dearest teacher to find out who killed her and why. So, alongside Gladstone the bulldog, it’s best paw forward to track down a villain. But when the art teacher is also found dead, Eleanor is sur

SYNOPSIS Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you… Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now at thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents’ funds, she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America—that is until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country. Before Paloma can pay Arun off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. She flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive, there's no body—and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place.   Paloma is

  SYNOPSIS When life goes off track sometimes the only thing you can do is go back to where it all began... Emmy Palmer is the star of Bragadon Forest, the biggest fantasy series on TV; adored by the public, living the life of glamour and luxury in London. But when scandal breaks, Emmy must escape the city and return to her seaside hometown to lie low and wait for the storm to pass. And as tragedy strikes for her family, it is good timing to go back to her roots. Emmy's agent decides it would be a good look to star in the community Christmas pantomime, but who else could be playing her leading man but her ex-boyfriend who she may or may not have ditched to move to London a decade ago... As the show approaches, love and friendships blossom and the real question is - Will they? Won't they? Title: Will They, Won't They? Author: Portia MacIntosh Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication date: September 7, 2021 Portia MacIntosh is a bestselling romantic comedy author of 16 novels, i