2019 Posts – Page 16 – Mrs Cooke’s Books

The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister

@MichaelJBooks @GillianMAuthor @mrscookesbooks I am delighted to kick off the #blogtour for Gillian McAllister’s latest novel which I raced through in only a couple of days because I just HAD to know how it all ended. Synopsis It’s the day Izzy’s father will be released from jail. She has every reason to feel conflictedContinue reading “The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister”

The Lives Before Us – Juliet Conlin

#TheLivesBeforeUs @JulietConlin @bwpublishing @mrscookesbooks Synopsis It’s April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty – two very different women – are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai, they’ve heard, Shanghai is a haven – and so they secureContinue reading “The Lives Before Us – Juliet Conlin”

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Artist Alicia Berenson has shot her beloved husband in the head 5 times because he came home late one evening. Since then she has not uttered a single word. She has been imprisoned in a secure mental facility where her only form of communication has been through her paintings. Psychotherapist, Theo Faber has taken anContinue reading “The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides”

Adèle by Leïla Slimani

Adèle has a chic apartment in the sought after suburbs of modern day Paris. She has a job as a successful journalist, a handsome surgeon for a husband and a scrumptious little toddler boy. One could say that Adèle has it all, except there is a problem; Adèle is bored; Adèle is frustrated; Adèle isContinue reading “Adèle by Leïla Slimani”

The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts

It’s 1997 and Britain has been shaken to the core by the chilling abduction and murder of a baby, by two young girls. Sisters Primrose and Laurel are those two young girls, and the media gives them a sickeningly sweet name; The Flower Girls. Ten year old Laurel is convicted of the baby’s murder whilstContinue reading “The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts”