On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I celebrated Valentine’s Day by featuring Katy Moran’s Regency romance series.
Tuesday – I shared my review of dual time historical novel The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham as part of the blog tour.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is my weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I shared my reviews of historical novel The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch and the Crime Writers’ Association latest anthology of short stories, Music of the Night edited by Martin Edwards.
Friday – I published my review of historical crime mystery The Mirror Game by Guy Gardner as part of the blog tour.
Saturday – I shared my review of The Reading Party by Fenella Gentleman.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer (ARC, Hodder & Stoughton)
One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughan Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it’s all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.
One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.
For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher.
For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.
Ranger (Storm of War #1) by Timothy Ashby (Sharpe Books)
West Indies, 1796. Alexander Charteris – the mixed-race son of an aristocratic planter and a slave mother – is raised as a gentleman amidst the country houses and London drawing rooms of Georgian England. Tricked out of his inheritance by his cousin Pemberton – Chart is kidnapped and transported to the island of Grenada where he endures the hell of slavery on a sugar plantation.
When Pemberton arrives at the plantation, accompanied by Chart’s former lover, Lady Arabella, he orders Chart’s torture and execution.
A slave revolt ensues, before the order can be carried out. Chart initially joins the revolutionaries but is sentenced to death for refusing to take part in a massacre of British colonists. Aided by the beautiful daughter of the rebel general, Julian Fédon, Chart escapes.
He is recruited into a new British unit called the Loyal Black Rangers and promised freedom if he fights against the French. Chart confronts conflicting loyalties as he leads his men in vicious bush-fighting. He rises through the ranks and plays a pivotal role in the bloody battle that crushes the rebellion.
But the soldier must confront one more enemy, that of his treacherous cousin, before he can find peace.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Unhinged by Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin by Paul Vidich
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The One by Claire Frost
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