pickAll Laura wanted was to measure the flat she'd move into in January. All Callum wanted was to avoid trekking home to Scotland for the holidays with his girlfriend. That was before their "meet nude" turned into meet the parents and fake dating.
It's just for a week and Laura has always wanted to see Scotland, it's going to be fun.
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Already published.
pickSkye's Inn in a small town near St Andrews isn't doing well. The last thing she needs right now is a rock star hiding from a scandal, especially when this rock star is the man who broke her heart 15 years ago.
Fortunately, the Book-Bitches know exactly how to handle the situation and give Noah and Skye opportunities to spend time together. There might be a second chance for love, the inn, and the music career.
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Chimney - locked room mystery
True crime podcaster Liza and her corporate financier wife Hanna want to spend Easter in a luxury hotel in the Scottish Highlands. Hanna planned it to rescue their marriage. It soon turns into a Murder Mystery Weekend with real victims.
Very Christie-esque, with chapter headings reminiscent of Cluedo.
panSix down on their luck mystery adjacent people are invited to the small village of Midwinter to compete in a fictional murder mystery game organised by the Midwinter Trust. Then two actual murders happen.
I read an excerpt late last year which made this sound like a locked room murder mystery homage to the Golden Age Mysteries where the reader is encouraged to guess the clues together with the amateur sleuths.
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pickNix has left her past in the past and moved on with her life in the military, or so she thought. Then Kessandra, her former lover and the people's favourite 'royal', hires Nix as her bodyguard on a covert operation. On the way to the mission, on board a Titanic-like submersible, Kess briefs Nix about what is really at stake; and not a minute too soon,... ⬇️
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Compared to the first book in the Bristol Keats duology, this was a slow read. The main plot had so many points of view that it felt like it was moving at a snail's pace. In addition, the romance plot leaned very heavily into the miscommunication trope. In the final 20%, though, all the action happened.
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pickEllie and Adam, together with Neil and Connie, are in India this time. With the help of Connie's extensive maternal family finding the Arrow of Fortune should be as easy as pie. Obviously it's not as easy, otherwise we'd have got a novella and not a full-sized novel.
This book is full of adventure, humour, romance, a pinch of spice, and a lot of heart.
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pickTiffenie is a 300-year old vampire living a rather reclusive life in LA. She has hardly any connections outside of work at an all-night plasma centre other than her neighbour Heaven and her ex Vlad, who's still texting her every day. But Halloween brings an offer of change to Tiffenie's un-life; the woman whose identity she took on ten years ago inherited an inn in Vermont.
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Three of the five(?) six(?) books I'm currently reading. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😬😵💫
The Isle in the Silver Sea - was just published
Pendergast - expected publication in January 2026
Arrow of Fortune - pub day 20th November (third book of the Raiders of the Arcana series)
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