On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I published my review of inventive short story collection, normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Planes, Trains and Automobiles/Books Featuring Travel.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a 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.
Friday – I published my review of historical novel, Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry.
New arrivals
Terra Incognita by Simon Turney (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)
61 AD. Under Emperor Nero, Rome is rich and powerful, but dissatisfaction is rife. The emperor himself schemes avidly to increase his wealth and indulge his pleasures – and slaughter his many enemies – but also seeks glory.
The great River Nile, life-giver to the Egyptians, the Kushites, and many other kingdoms through the African continent. Nobody from the Roman Empire has ever tracked the Nile to its source… but if it can be done, mastery of the greatest waterway in the known world – and with it, the control of friend and foe alike – may be possible.
But the price of obtaining such knowledge will be terrible. Those soldiers selected to command and serve on the mission will be at risk the moment they pass beyond the Roman borders of Egypt. Kingdoms and tribes hostile to Rome, vast swathes of desert, fierce beasts… and the price of failure hanging over their heads, for Nero is not an easy man to please.
Hemlock Bay (Rachel Savernake #5) by Martin Edwards (Aries Fiction via NetGalley)
Basil Palmer has decided to murder a man called Louis Carson. There’s only one he doesn’t know anything about his intended victim, not who he is or where he lives.
Basil learns that Carson owns Hemlock Bay, a resort for the wealthy and privileged. Knowing that his plan will only work if he covers his tracks, he invents a false identity and, posing as Dr Seamus Doyle, journeys to the coast plotting murder along the way.
Meanwhile Rachel Savernake buys an intriguing painting of a place called Hemlock Bay, one that she cannot get out of her head. Macabre and strange, the image shows a shape that seems to represent a dead body lying on the beach.
Convinced that there is something sinister lurking amongst the glamour of the bay, Rachel books a cottage there – where she meets a mysterious doctor called Seamus Doyle…
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan
- Book Review: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
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