So, we’ve had a bit of rain, shall we say.
The kind that results in words like ‘natural disaster’ being used. I was in Byron Bay on a small holiday with my family, and we fully expected it to be rained out, but for the couple of days we were there, we had wonderful weather until the evening of the last day, when the skies darkened and the storms hit.
My mum and I drove up together (7 hour drive) and planned to leave Byron on Sunday — but we got to two hours from Sydney and were turned back because the roads home had been flooded. So we drove back to Coffs Harbour where my sister had managed to book a motel for us — and yes, they were filling up quickly with people who were stuck because the roads were flooded.
We were really grateful to find a place to dry out and not be stuck on the road like others were. We headed back on Wednesday, and it was like the rains had never happened – sunny skies and dry roads, but the rivers were filled up, and fields were soaked.
So that’s been my week — how have you been going?
Meanwhile, here are some gems I’m looking forward to.
Local Woman Missing
People don’t just disappear without a trace…
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.
Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find…
In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
This is a tantalising blurb
— especially as Delilah returns, and when someone returns in books like these, it never ends well!
The Dead Husband
murderer, a victim, and a witness… but no one in this house is innocent
Twenty years ago an unspeakable tragedy rocked Rose Yates’s small, affluent hometown… and only Rose and her family know the truth about what happened.
Haunted by guilt, Rose escaped into a new life. Now she seems to have it all: a marriage, a son, a career. And then her husband is found dead.
As far as Detective Colin Pearson is concerned, Rose is guilty. Her marriage wasn’t as happy as she’d led everyone to believe, and worse, she’s connected to a twenty-year-old cold case. She can play the part of the victim, but he won’t let her or her family escape justice this time around.
Grieving her husband and struggling to make ends meet, Rose returns home, hoping to finally confront her domineering father and unstable sister. But memories of a horrific crime echo through the house, and Rose soon learns that she can’t trust anyone, especially not the people closest to her.
From USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson comes a story of deception, hereditary sin, and what we’ll do to protect our own.
Rose’s return is so ominous, and then the addition of the detective that seems a little bit unhealthily obsessed with her… hm. I need to know more about what happened to rose and her family all those years ago — my first thought?
Did someone murder her mother?
Killer Content
It’s murder most viral in this debut mystery by Olivia Blacke.
Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she’s scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café. Hand-selling books and craft beers is easy for Odessa, but making new friends and learning how to ride the subway? Well, that might take her a little extra time.
But things turn more sour than an IPA when the death of a fellow waitress goes viral, caught on camera in the background of a couple’s flash-mob proposal video. Nothing about Bethany’s death feels right to Odessa–neither her sudden departure mid-shift nor the clues that only Odessa seems to catch. As an up-and-coming YouTube star, Bethany had more than one viewer waiting for her to fall from grace.
Determined to prove there’s a killer on the loose, Odessa takes matters into her own hands. But can she pin down Bethany’s killer before they take Odessa offline for good?
A death caught in the background of a flash sounds just about right for a cosy mystery!
I don’t know, I just needed something to make me smile and I stumbled over this and that was it!
In My dreams I hold a Knife
Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.
A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love.
But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.
Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down.
Oh hello, reunions are murder, right?
I’ve seen so many of these recently, and yup, they’re still something to look forward to!
I’m going to leave it there for today — I hope everyone is going okay! And I will be catching up on comments this week!
