Spread a little love
I get asked a lot about Rowan’s love life and when I’m going to give her a significant other. I’m so not the romantic type and maybe that’s why Rowan doesn’t fall in love. Or maybe because those soapy romantic or steamy sex scenes are really out of my comfort zone.
Except none of that’s the reason. Rowan is fiercely independent, she doesn’t need or want anyone else in her life who she’d have to take into consideration, someone who, perhaps, might not love the stupid risks she takes. And she has Alana to question her judgement, she doesn’t need anyone else.
It’s taken her a lot to open up her heart and her life to the new friends and family she’s found in the last few years and there’s plenty to of platonic love to fill up her emotional cup. I’m not saying she won’t ever have liaisons, just that she’s not the settling down kind.
So in this month of chocolate hearts and overpriced roses don’t expect any romance from me and Rowan.
I do want to spend February sharing the love for some fab books that have either come out this month, or are on pre-order this month. Let’s see what you could be reading whilst you wait for Dead At The Start - Rowan Book 5 to be published.
An inventive and ambitious speculative courtroom thriller - Shutter Island meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
'I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me... I realise I'm the one they're waiting for.'
Lila Dalton has no memory of how she got to this courtroom. The man in the docks is accused of mass murder, and she's his barrister - but she can't remember anything about the case. She can't remember anything at all.
Lila is stranded on an island hundreds of miles from the UK, where the most serious crimes go to trial. The next plane out doesn't leave for days.
And she's being watched. Someone keeps breaking into her hotel room to leave cryptic notes, threatening her with deadly consequences if she doesn't get her client off...
Can Lila Dalton win her case and solve the mystery of her own identity?
How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems?
DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side?
It’s not the only disturbing case to land on Clare’s desk. Across town, an elderly man is in danger. Yet before the police can determine the facts, everything changes and they are presented with two suspicious deaths to investigate.
As Clare and her team face the possibility that anything they believe to be true about the deaths is wrong, they might find that a killer can lurk behind the most innocent of faces…
An angry ex-wife. A rich mistress. And a dead body in a storage unit.
Coroner Fenway Stevenson opens her boyfriend’s storage unit—and discovers a corpse wrapped in an expensive Persian rug. There’s no shortage of suspects: the dead man’s girlfriend, the bitter ex, the sneaky co-worker.
But then Fenway uncovers a drug scheme that threatens to tear apart her idyllic California beach town—if the tropical storm bearing down on the county doesn’t wreck it first.
Can Fenway unmask the killer before the storm hits? Or will Fenway be the next victim?
The Warehouse Coroner is the ninth book in The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries by USA TODAY bestselling author Paul Austin Ardoin. Read the series that The Bestseller Experiment’s Mark Stay calls “page-turning, unputdownable mysteries.”
The members of the Wronged Women's Co-operative have been called in to look at a cold case. Ten years ago a woman died and her grown-up children disappeared. But as the WWC track down the family members, a murderer returns and the case turns out to be not quite so cold after all.