‘The Doll Funeral’ Is Strange and Hypnotic [REVIEW]

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Battered and left behind, a young child dreams of something more. (Photo by Jack Lyons, Flickr)

A young girl caught in a nightmare dreams of another life. In some ways she envies Lewis Carroll’s Alice, who disappeared down the rabbit hole to find herself in an enchanted world. Yet there is no magical fall into a land populated by cheshire cats and mad hatters for her. She does have a glimmer of hope, however, when she receives an unexpected revelation on her thirteenth birthday. Find out what happens to her in Kate Hamer’s new novel, The Doll Funeral.  Continue reading “‘The Doll Funeral’ Is Strange and Hypnotic [REVIEW]”

‘My Sister’s Bones’ Is Mystifying and Insightful [REVIEW]

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A reporter suspects something sinister is going on in the house next door in Nuala Ellwood’s My Sister’s Bones.
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When a war reporter returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death, she soon suspects that something is seriously wrong in the house next door. But are the things she’s seeing real or is her mind playing tricks on her? Find out in Nuala Ellwood’s debut novel, My Sister’s Bones.  Continue reading “‘My Sister’s Bones’ Is Mystifying and Insightful [REVIEW]”

J. T. Ellison’s ‘No One Knows’ Is A Truly Chilling Read [REVIEW]

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Even after her husband goes missing and is declared dead, all Aubrey Hamilton wants is her husband back.
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Can love be so all encompassing between two people that the surviving mate is unable to move forward in life? Bestselling novelist J.T. Ellison plumbs the depths of love and loss in her enthralling novel, No One Knows. 
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