10/06/2026
Half a dozen new reads have just hit the bookshelves ...
๐Based On A True Story by Sarah Vaughan sees Dame Eleanor Kingman summon her family and friends to her new manor house to celebrate a milestone birthday. But itโs not all laughter and joy. There are secrets and lies and sibling rivalry โฆ and murder! Simon and Schuster
๐JP Delaneyโs The Move is the brilliant thriller about a couple who, with their children, buy a new house in the country. The sellers have moved close by, and are friendly and helpful and generous. But when things turn sour โ and oh boy do they turn sour โ the young couple find themselves subjected to a vicious hate campaign. Oh โฆ and thereโs a murder. Obvs! Quercus
๐On a softer, more gentle note, Elizabeth Buchanโs Woodspring is about a home the Danes have lived in since it was built in 1810. Through changing seasons and the war, and three generations, with love and fortunes changing, itโs the home they all go back to. Corvus
๐A teacher is dead. A pupil is missing. And undercover therapist. Itโs murder and mystery and secret gangs at a prestigious boarding school in Dorothy Koomsonโs The Quiet Girls, a twisty thriller that leaves you guessing until the very end. Headline Review
๐Widowed. Divorced. Unmarried. Three women form an unexpected friendship in Sheila OโFlanaganโs Secrets Between Friends, an intriguing and sparkling mystery about women discovering their strength and loving life. Headline Review
๐In Karen Roseโs new novel, Family Lies, finding her family could be murder for Homicide Detective Kit McKittrickโs foster sister. Murder, secrets, every piece of information found leading to more and more questions, Karen Rose always delivers tension-filled thrillers. Headline
