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SYNOPSIS Within days of wishing she could change her life, Fran Cooper is acting assistant to a celebrity, on a yacht in the Mediterranean, and en route to a tiny Italian island and the glittering Crystal Ball, along with the world’s rich and famous. When she – quite literally – bumps into a handsome American called Evan, a man able to keep his cool in the face of chaos, the magic really begins. Evan makes her a promise: no last names, no life stories, just one unforgettable night. Yet Evan belongs at the Crystal Ball and Fran is a gatecrasher. They may be soulmates, but their homes are an ocean apart, and their lives a world apart. They’ll never meet again – unless, on a night like this, everything can change forever. Title: On a night like this Author: Lindsey Kelk Publisher: Harper Collins Publication date: November 11, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It’s been a while since I enjoyed a rom-com so much! On a night like this was absolutely perfect from start to finish and this contemporary...

SYNOPSIS New Year’s Eve, 1962 As a snowstorm rages outside, Oxford high society gathers to ring in the new year at the city’s most exclusive party. This is a soiree no one will forget… not least because a guest is found dead in his car the next morning. It seems the young man tragically froze to death overnight after crashing into a snowdrift – but when WPC Trudy Loveday and coroner Clement Ryder are called in to investigate, they discover a tangled web of secrets that plainly points to murder. With everyone telling different stories about that fateful night, only one thing is clear: several people had reason to want the victim dead. And if Trudy and Clement don’t find the cracks in each lie, the killer will get away with the perfect crime. Title: A fatal night Author: Faith Martin Series: Ryder & Loveday Mystery #7 Publisher: HQ Digital Publication date: November 11, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ How is it already book 7 in the Ryder and Loveday Mystery Series? It must be true that say...

  SINOPSIS El cuerpo sin vida de Henrik Dahlman, un artista casado y padre de familia, aparece desnudo y atado a la cama en su casa de verano de Ljugarn. Las pistas apuntan a que el culpable quiere confundir a la policía sobre su identidad. Cuando otro hombre casado aparece brutalmente asesinado, Anders Knutas y Karin Jacobsson son conscientes de que se enfrentan a un homicida con un plan preconcebido que, además, cambia continuamente de aspecto. Al revuelo que causa la investigación, se suman las dudas de Knutas cuando su exmujer intenta convencerlo para que retomen su relación. Título: La cara oculta Autor: Mari Jungstedt Serie: Anders Knutas #13 Editorial: Maeva Fecha de publicación: 14 Octubre 2020 RESEÑA VALORACIÓN: ⭐⭐⭐ Decimotercera entrega de la Serie Gotland protagonizada por el Inspector Anders Knutas, y que he disfrutado como si fuese la primera. Mari Jungstedt es junto con Camilla Läckberg y Viveca Sten mis autoras favoritas de lo que yo considero Nordic Noir light. His...

  SYNOPSIS If you're on the list you're marked for death. The envelope is unremarkable. There is no return address. It contains a single, folded, sheet of white paper. The envelope drops through the mail slot like any other piece of post. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive. It could also be the last, as one by one, they start to meet their end. But why? Title: Nine Lives Author: Peter Swanson Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication date: March 3, 2022 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ He’s back, back, back again! It is not a secret that Peter Swanson is one of my favorite authors so when a couple of days ago I received a mail saying I had been approved for an eARC, I knew I was gonna put all my current reads on hold to read Nine Lives immediately. I was done with it in less than 24 hours so good it was! Nine people receive a list with their ...

SYNOPSIS 1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica, nicknamed Decca. It quickly becomes clear that Decca may have made for the war in Spain - and not alone. As a second, separate missing person case is opened, Louisa and Guy discover that every marriage has its secrets - but some are more deadly than others. Title: The Mitford vanishing Author: Jessica Fellowes Series: The Mitford Murders #5 Publisher: Sphere Publication date: November 4, 2021 REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you like your historical mysteries with a mix of fact and fiction, the Mitford Murders Series is the one for you. Taking the lives o...

SINOPSIS «Mundo maldito, llévame a mí si quieres que ya estoy podrida de todas formas pero no me chafes a Alberto, a Alberto déjamelo tranquilo dando saltos en su casa vestido de gato, déjamelo que haga dibujos, que plan- te árboles, que baile, no le des sustos, no le des una pandilla que le ponga retos crueles, que se escape, que no se haga mayor como un cadáver dentro de un cuerpo grande con el que sea imposible volver a comunicarse, que no se queden sus huesitos arrojados en el interior de un tonto que monte un negocio vinculado con el diablo y se pase las jorna- das firmando papeles y hablando con des- potismo. No me pudras a este niño, mundo asqueroso, solo te pido eso, asústame a mí, enférmame, tortúrame, échame a una zan- ja y que nunca me encuentren, hazme daño a mí y a este niño que nada lo vuelva malo.» Lali tiene que hacer prácticas de magisterio, pero olvida echar la instancia. Cuando descubre que le han asignado un colegio de monjas ya es demasiado tarde. Sin embargo tendr...

  SYNOPSIS Someone on this quiet, unassuming cul-de-sac will be shot dead in the middle of a sultry July night. Will it be Maggie, the perfectionist wife, or Craig, the husband who can’t quite live up to her expectations? They’ve packed up their two children and fled their life in California, hoping for a fresh start in Florida, only to find the demons of the past hovering on their doorstep. Maybe it will be Nick, a highly respected oncologist, or his wife, Dani, a successful dentist, both with well-kept secrets of their own. Or perhaps the victim will be Julia, an elderly widow, whose troubled grandson has recently moved in with her, introducing unsavory habits and even more unsavory acquaintances into her formerly quiet existence. Then there’s Olivia and her husband, Sean. Having lost his job at a prestigious advertising agency, Sean is depressed, resentful of his working wife, and drinking heavily. He is also prone to increasingly violent fantasies. And what of the newlyweds, Ai...