June 28

London In Black – Jack Lutz

A TENSE, TICKING-BOMB THRILLER SET IN A GRITTY NEAR-FUTURE LONDON

LONDON 2027

Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population – the ‘Vulnerables’ – exposure means near-certain death. Only a lucky few survive.

LONDON 2029

Copy-cat strikes plague the city, its Vulnerable inhabitants kept safe by regular Boost injections. As the anniversary of the first attacks draws near, DI Lucy Stone, a guilt-ridden Vulnerable herself, is called to investigate a gruesome murder of a scientist. Her investigation soon unearths the possibility that he was working on an antidote – one that Lucy desperately needs, as her Boosts become less and less effective.
But is the antidote real? And can Lucy solve the case before her Boosts stop working?

 

My thanks to Tara at Pushkin Press for the opportunity to join the blog tour for London in Black. I am reviewing a purchased digital copy of the book.

 

I have read a few dystopian stories for this blog and too often the blurb on those books made the book sound edgy and terrifying but the story just did not deliver on that early promise. So it was a genuine pleasure to discover London in Black was graphic, edgy and sufficiently nasty to tick all my boxes.

The cause of the apolcalypic event in this story was a toxin attack on London. Large numbers of the population were not harmed by the gas but for the vulnerable amonst them infection meant a prolonged and terrifying slide towards a painful death. A very small percentage of those vulnerable are hanging on to life, their bodies dependant upon a drug developed by scientist Flinders Cox and manufactured by his firm. But Flinders Cox has been murdered and DI Lucy Stone is on the case. Except she isn’t because she has been suspended from duty.

Lucy is one of the vulnerable who relies upon the drug Cox developed. She monitors her reistance to the effects of London Black (the toxin) and takes a daily booster to keep her alive. But the booster seems to be losing efficiency and with each hour her monitor shows her defences against infection are falling. If Cox has been killed then who will be able to continue his research and develop an antidote? Why was this prominent scientist killed and who benefits from his death?

London in Black takes a fast paced murder investigation and throws in the drama of the lead character constantly battling to avoid potential exposure to toxins which could kill her. The prospect of Lucy’s daily booster failing her and losing effectiveness over each day means she is in a real race against time to solve this case and uncover what Cox had been working on at the time of his death. Could it have been an antidote which would cure her?

I really enjoyed the duplicity and red herrings littered through this story. I thought I was doing well in unpicking motives and identifying possible suspects but Jack Lutz had other ideas and kept me on my toes with revelations and surprises which totally caught me off guard. Despite my abject failure at guessing where this story may take me I was fully onboard for the ride. At the end of the book I was only disappointed it was finished – I could easily have spent more time reading about this near future London.

If you want a thriller which offers a high tempo and edgy, gritty storyline then you should look no further.

 

London in Black is published by Pushkin Press and is available in hardback, digital and audiobook format. You can order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09YN2YPGV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

 

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June 22

The Haunting of Crimshaw Manor – Mark E Drotos

Every town has a mystery.

The Crimshaw family were once the caretakers of the prestigious Strathmore Estate. After the great blizzard of 1868, the townspeople found Elizabeth Crimshaw’s body hanging from the banister. Her young son and husband were declared missing and never found.

Every town has a legend.

The locals say they have seen Elizabeth’s ghost and that the manor is haunted. Others claim to have heard a woman’s scream and have witnessed strange lights and shadow people.

Some mysteries are better left unsolved.

What really happened to the promising Crimshaw family? Are the rumors surrounding the family true? Intent on investigating these claims, Stephen Davenport, adjunct professor of Paranormal Studies at Strathmore University, along with students from the school’s paranormal investigations club begin a weekend investigation.

What they find confirms their beliefs in the paranormal—and challenges them to simply stay alive.

I received a review copy of The Legend of Crimshaw Manor from the publisher through Netgalley
Sometimes a book lands on my Kindle and it’s the type of story I need to read right there and then. That’s what happened with The Legend of Crimshaw Manor. I was in the mood for a chilling horror tale and I stumbled upon Crimshaw Manor – the timing was perfect so I dipped straight in and before I knew it I was over 30% of the way through the book. The whole story was read over three days but only because I was having a busy weekend so didn’t get as much reading time I had hoped.
Stephen Davenport is the lead character in this creepy tale. He has an ability to see ghosts and is brought to Strathmore University to take on a professor role overseeing Paranormal Studies. Stephen comes to Strathmore and finds himself offered the opportunity to supplement his income by overseeing the management of a new nightclub which is being built/renovated in one of the old abandoned buildings in town. His friend knows Stephen can’t run a bar but would like him to be around on the property to oversee things while the construction is ongoing. Needless to say the old building where Stephen will be sleeping houses a few ghosts and it’s clear Stephen is going to be encountering more than a few spirits in this story.
Stephen’s department get the opportunity to investigate an old house on the edge of town – Crimshaw Manor. The house is famed locally as being haunted and the story of its former residents is disturbing and tragic. A couple and their young son moved to the house many decades ago. They were not used to the area and were unaware of the need to adequately prepare for winter. The snows came early and the family were cut off from the rest of the town. They had little food and no means to contact the outside world for help. The family didn’t survive but exactly what happened to them while they were snowed in to their home is not clear.
Now Stephen and two of his students are at Crimshaw Manor and they are brining all their best scientific gear to the old property to see if they can record the presence of ghosts. Suffice to say their weekend is going to be eventful.
I will confess to being a fan of a good haunted house story and there were more than a few chilling chapters in this book which kept me well entertained. Not all threats which the team encounter are supernatural and there are some good action sequences thrown in too. Combine these with flashbacks into Stephen’s past and there’s a lot of creepy action to enjoy here. One minor quibble, the scenes between those chilling moments didn’t hold me quite the same way – I wanted back to the spooky stuff – and one of the support characters brought slightly too much comedy when I didn’t always feel it was needed. Minor, as I say – the chills really outweighed the niggles.
The Haunting of Crimshaw Manor is published on 12 July 2022 and will be available in digital and hardback editions. You can pre-order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunting-Crimshaw-Manor-Mark-Drotos-ebook/dp/B09ZMVPP48/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KOJS5Q3YKHRY&keywords=crimshaw+manor&qid=1652990655&sprefix=c%2Caps%2C47&sr=8-1
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June 19

Up Close and Fatal – Fergus McNeil

On the road. With a serial killer.

It begins with a list of names – past and future victims. When struggling reporter Tom Pritchard receives it in the mail, he’s scared, though he knows this could be the story he needs to save his career.

Especially if he can help the police to catch the killer.

But this isn’t a typical murderer. This is someone patient and ruthless, someone who’s been planning for years. Soon, the tables are turned and Tom finds himself trapped on a terrifying road trip across the US, racing from victim to victim. His only hope of saving his family is to understand the killer but, to do that, he’ll need to be close. And although he doesn’t know it yet, that’s exactly where the killer wants him to be.

 

My thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours for the opportunity to host this leg of the tour. I am reviewing my purchased copy of Up Close and Fatal.

 

 

Tom Pritchard is an English journalist working in the US. He has had some success but the opportunties are not coming thick and fast and he has seperated from his partner who now looks after their five-year old son. Tom isn’t in a great position and his life is going to become so much more complicated.

Tom arrives home to find a strange letter. Inside is a list. Numbered one to ten. But just three names on the list (points four, six and nine). The other seven points are blank and at the foot of the list is a single word: WAIT.  Ever inquisitive Tom opens a search engine and looks up one of the names – a murder victim. Both the other names on the incomplete list match murder victims too but Tom cannot see any link between the three.

Wait was the instruction and Tom soon recieves a further communication. A telephone call from someone who asks if Tom recieved his letter. This call offers Tom the opportunity to write the biggest story of his career but he has to be prepared for everything that comes with accepting the challenge. The Killer (for it is a serial killer that has reached out to Tom to write his story) wants Tom to meet and dicuss the list and the background to the names on the list.

Tom realises he has an opportunity to help catch a killer if he agrees to the meeting. He enlists the help of a friend in the police force and when the time of the meeting draws near Tom is fully tracked, followed and supported by a team of officers. However the killer is far smarter than any of them suspected and all does not go to plan. When Tom’s guard is down the killer pounces and Tom finds himself travelling across country, captive to a man determined to bring his series of killings to its conclusion. And Tom has front row seats to the last murders which will complete that list of names.

Fergus McNeil has given us a serial killer road trip and it is a hell of a ride. Tom is brilliantly realised and he faces a real dilemma over his continued participation in the project his captive outlines. The killer is also wonderfully depicted by the author – he is the key to the whole story and also displays a full range of emotions as his story is told. Two very different characters and each get a turn in the spotlight as the author balances their contribution to this story.

It’s unusual to see a story putting the killer and the “hero” of the book together for so much of action. Yet Fergus McNeil makes it work. Both characters are motivated by their own agenda and though they are going to the same place (even if Tom does not know where this is) each has a different plan for how their trip will end. Unfortuantely for Tom his travelling companion has had a long time to prepare and he has left nothing to chance. Unfortunately for the killer – well you know what they say about the best laid plans…

I breezed through this fast paced thriller in just two day – highly recommended.

 

 

Up Close and Fatal is available in paperback and digital format and can be bought here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09WXNDCF1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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June 18

The Chemical Cocktail – Fiona Erskine

 

 

I recieved a review copy from the publishers and was invited to join the blog tour by Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. My thanks to both.

 

In 2021 I spent 11 months of the year praising a book written by Fiona Erskine. I read it in February and in December (to nobody’s surprise) called Fiona’s book the best book I had read in 2021. When the opportunity came to read the next book Fiona had written I could not resist.

The Chemical Cocktail is the third Jaq Silver thriller and despite there being some hints at past events you don’t need to have read the previous books in the series to enjoy this one. And you WILL enjoy this book as it’s an action thriller which spans continents, has some particularly nasty bad guys lurking in the background and we get more than a few tense moments for Silver as she tries to investigate a secret from her past.

Early in the story the reader learns Silver’s mother has died and Jaq has come into posession of the last of her mother’s posessions. Within the documents she finds information which will turn her world upside down. Events thereafter give the readers an insight into the background of Jaq Silver, an understanding of how she became the woman she is but also expose some of the most secret elements of her past. I imagine for returning readers this will be a welcome look at the background of a loved character but for a new reader to the series (me) it was a wonderful way to meet the character.

The information Silver received in her mother’s posessions will kick off a frantic race against time chase which stretches from England to Brazil, with some stops in Europe along the way. There is little respite for Silver as she tries to elude pursuers without understanding why she is being pursued. The reader is also kept in the dark as to what the “prize” at the end of this chase may be – not knowing what was behind the attempts to capture Jaq Silver really held my attention and kept me reading.

Silver is a terrific lead character and I understand why some reviews have drawn comparisons to a James Bond type figure. She is also an expolosives expert and the author brings the science to the story in a way which is accessible, educational and entertaining.Rembmber how Tom Clancy books would suddenly jump from the action to delivere ten pages of technical specifications on a missile? Well in The Chemical Cocktail Fiona Ersine will slip in two informative and accessible paragraphs and keep the action flowing. Both styles show the author is in total command of the information and subject matter but, sorry Tom, only one is actually fun to read.

The Chemical Cocktail is sharply written with short, punchy chapters and the constant thrill of a chase and evade makes for an exciting story throughout. I loved the time I spent getting lost in this adventure tale and now need to find time to read the first two books in the series too.

 

The Chemical Cocktail is published by Point Blank Crime and is available in paperback and digital format. You can order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09JPH6CV1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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June 13

Cat & Mouse – MJ Arlidge

When you think you’re safe,
When you think you’re all alone,
That’s when he’ll come for you…

A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those home alone at night, playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the victims.

As panic spreads, Detective Inspector Helen Grace leads the investigation, but is herself a hunted woman, her every step shadowed by a ruthless psychopath bent on revenge.

As she tracks the murderer, Grace begins to suspect there is a truly shocking home truth that connects these brutal crimes. But what she will find is something more twisted than she could ever suspect…

 

 

My thanks to the publishers, Orion, for a review copy and to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the opportunity to join the Cat & Mouse blog tour.

 

Sometimes all I want to read is an exciting murder story with short, punchy chapters and some nasty bad guys to make me want to root for the lead character. Thank you MJ Arlidge for Cat & Mouse – I needed you this week!

The lead character in this case is DI  Helen Grace and in the books which came before Cat & Mouse she has had more than a bit of a rough time. She’s disliked by her boss, has a death threat hanging over her, is at odds with a former lover (a colleague) who she now needs to testify against and the local press are out to get her. It probably helps to have read the previous books to get the full story behind her predicament but the author does make sure you will know enough to understand why DI Grace is a woman under intense pressure.

To compound this pressure the book opens with a particularly brutal murder. A woman, home alone as she waited for her husband to return from a late-night training session is restrained and subdued while an intruder steals her jewellery. Before the intruder leaves he pulls out a small axe and buried it in the back of her head.

The victim was a young mother, attractive, successful and prominent on social media. The press are baying for a quick arrest but DI Grace and her team have little to go on. It’s a frustrating case but the victim’s husband knows the killer, his wife had a stalker and he is sure the police should look no further than the guy who had been harassing her. Is a quick outcome going to be possible? Well, if she can prove his guilt then it may be a good outcome for Helen and her team.

I came late to this series. Cat & Mouse is the eleventh Helen Grace novel and I joined around book six or seven (I now have all the books I missed in my TBR). It’s rare for me to get sucked into a series which I haven’t followed from the first book but in this case I have gone out of my way to try to catch up. MJ Arlidge writes gripping and exciting stories, the kind of book which makes you want to keep reading late into the night.

I really enjoyed Cat & Mouse. Once or twice Grace seems to morph from police detective to action hero which didn’t quite seem in keeping with my perception of her character, but the action scenes do make for exciting reading. Lots of red herrings and plenty of plot threads surrounding Helen’s colleagues and also the reporter who is determined to undermine Helen at every opportunity. Highly recommend this series so don’t miss out.

 

 

Cat & Mouse is published by Orion and available now in hardback, digital and audiobook format.  You can order a copy here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/cat-and-mouse/m-j-arlidge/9781409188506

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June 8

The Lost Ones – Marnie Riches

The girl is sitting upright, her dark brown hair arranged over her shoulders and her blue, blue eyes staring into the distance. She looks almost peaceful. But her gaze is vacant, and her skin is cold…

When Detective Jackie Cooke is called to the murder scene, she is shocked by what she sees. Missing teenager Chloe Smedley has finally been found – her body left in a cold back yard, carefully posed with her bright blue eyes still open. Jackie lays a protective hand on the baby in her belly, and vows to find the brutal monster who stole Chloe’s future.

When Jackie breaks the news to Chloe’s heartbroken mother, she understands the woman’s cries only too well. Her own brother went missing as a child, the case never solved. Determined to get justice for Chloe and her family, Jackie sets to work, finding footage of the girl waving at someone the day she disappeared. Did Chloe know her killer?

But then a second body is found on the side of a busy motorway, lit up by passing cars. The only link with Chloe is the disturbing way the victim has been posed, and Jackie is convinced she is searching for a dangerous predator. Someone has been hunting missing and vulnerable people for decades, and only Jackie seems to see that they were never lost. They were taken.

Jackie’s boss refuses to believe a serial killer is on the loose and threatens to take her off the case. But then Jackie returns home to find a brightly coloured bracelet on her kitchen counter and her blood turns cold. It’s the same one her brother was wearing when he vanished. Could his disappearance be connected to the murders? Jackie will stop at nothing to catch her killer… unless he finds her first…

 

My thanks to Bookouture for my review copy and to Sarah Hardy for the opportunity to host this leg of The Lost Ones blog tour.

 

There are some authors I always enjoy reading. If you look back over my past reviews you will see I have read (and always enjoyed) many books written by Marnie Riches – she seems to nail that perfect balance of pacing, humour, darkess (oh what darkness) and tension packed thrills. Anticipation ahead of reading The Lost Ones was high. I was not disappointed.

The Lost Ones is the first in a new series which features Detective Jackson (Jackie) Cooke and we first meet her in a state of some discomfort, very pregnant, at a murder scene and without her regular partner who has finally secured a long-overdue holiday. The murder is a particularly nasty one; a young girl has been left posed in a location where she will be easily found. Her body has been mutilated and some of her limbs are missing.

Jackie cannot help but be reminded of her own brother who she lost many years earlier when he vanished when he and Jackie were both children. Her brother never returned and Jackie’s mother and her often absent father struggled on with a constant feeling of loss and heartbreak. The family dynamic is fractious and Jackie’s own family are seemingly also chaotic. She has many plates spinning in her home life and with a third child, their happy accident, on the way there seems no let up.

The murder investigation takes the majority of the story and it’s a great police procedural – even if the team are not the best at following orders. Jackie’s boss (and apparent nemesis) wants to bench her but is struggling to cover her position. Her colleagues are too busy to give the case the attention Jackie thinks it needs and she does not rate their ability to investigate this unusual murder properly.

We see Jackie covertly trying to keep working on the murder case and enlisting some willing colleagues to support her. An astute reader will definitely have that impending feeling of something about to go badly wrong, it certainly kept me reading!

I read The Lost Ones in two sittings, didn’t want to stop as there was always something in the story which kept me pushing through “one more chapter”. It’s got more than a few dark moments as I have come to expect (and look forward to) when I read Marnie’s books and this new cast of characters were wonderfully realised as I felt I had been reading about them for more than one book.

The Lost Ones is out now and I cannot think of a single reason as to why you shouldn’t buy a copy immediately.

 

 

The Lost Ones is available in paperback, digital and audiobook format. You can order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09TWCJ33M/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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June 6

All of the Marvels – Douglas Wolk

Every schoolchild recognises their protagonists: the Avengers, the X-Men, your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. The superhero comics that Marvel has published since 1961 make up the biggest self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages and counting. Eighteen of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are based on it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing – nobody’s supposed to.

But Douglas Wolk did. In All Of The Marvels, a critic and superfan takes on the epic to end all epics. What he finds is a magic mirror of the past 60 years, from the atomic terrors of the Cold War to the political divides of our present. Wolk teases out Marvel’s mixture of progressive visions and painful stereotypes, its regrettable moments as well as its flights of luminous creativity. The result is an irresistible travel guide to the magic mountain at the heart of popular culture.

 

I recieved a review copy through Netgalley

 

I can’t quite get my head around how many comics Douglas Wolk read to put himself into the position where he could write a book called “All of the Marvels”. Six decades of comics, over half a million pages (presumably not the classic adverts from the 1970s where you could buy x-ray glasses) and tens of thousands of individual comic books. I am more than a little bit jealous to be honest as there are so many classic storylines I still hope to find time to read one day.

Why am I reviewing a book about a man reading comic books? Because I love comics. More accurately I love Marvel Comics and I wish more people would read them too. I wondered how a book addressing all the Marvel comics would discuss the huge volume of stories, the vast array of characters and whether it would inspire new readers to pick up some comics to try them too.

I also wondered how this book would read…where do you start discussing that vast body of work and which characters do you focus on? Well it didn’t read quite how I had expected and the focus sometimes surprised me but it works. Douglas Wolk does not take a chronological approach to the comics and I was secretly pleased by this as I suspect I may have jumped to “my era” of reading which was the 80s/90s. Instead there is an early focus on Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The stories they crafted, how they worked together, other artists and writing teams that contributed and how some of the most famous characters came to the news-stands.

There was a section about the Shang-Chi comics and the martial arts books from the 1970s when Bruce Lee movies were doing well in cinemas and Western audiences were keen to discover more. He discusses how some writers dominated a particular title and then how the title declined or lost focus when the writing teams changed. It’s fascinating to see how one man (and for years it was mainly men) can make or break a character and define how we see them now. This focus on writers allows a shift through different characters over a long time period but don’t expect a Spider-Man chapter, an Iron Man chapter then a Hulk chapter as the narrative is much more fluid and conversational.

Naturally some characters will dominate Marvel’s history but Douglas Wolk does mix up the focus and I found myself deep in passages discussing characters I don’t really know and the author made me want to read those comicbooks.

Will All of the Marvels appeal to new readers? I think perhaps not as I came to this book with a bit of knowledge of Marvel and their big name artists/authors and this really helped me relate to what I was reading here. But I also found I was learning about the team behind the scenes as well as the teams on the pages. I also wanted to read many, many more books which I hadn’t really considered prior to Wolk’s

It’s a huge undertaking to cover so much material and there is the risk your favourite story or hero may not get many mentions. However, All of the Marvels is a fascinating analysis and recounting of some of the most famous stories in comicbook history. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am sure many Marvel finds will find it equally absorbing but non fans may struggle to fully engage.

 

All of the Marvels is published in Hardback, Audiobook and digital format. You can order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B093J5Z88L/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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June 5

The Game – Scott Kershaw

Across the globe, five strangers receive a horrifying message from an unknown number.

THE PERSON YOU LOVE MOST IS IN DANGER.

To save them, each must play The Game – a sinister unknown entity that has a single rule: there can only be one winner.

IF YOU LOSE, YOUR LOVED ONE WILL DIE.

But what is The Game – and why have they been chosen?

There’s only one thing each of them knows for sure: they’ll do anything to win…

WELCOME TO THE GAME. YOU’VE JUST STARTED PLAYING.

 

I recieved a review copy of The Game from the publishers through Netgalley.

 

A debut thriller from Scott Kershaw which sees five strangers facing a race against time. Each of the five is playing The Game to save one of their loved ones, each is aware the price of failure will mean the one they love will die. But what is The Game and how will they determine the winner?

That is a terrific hook for me – a thriller which introduces five characters and immediately throws them into the worst situation of their lives. It gives that instant gratifying feeling of grabbing the reader’s attention from the outset then taking them on a breakneck journey into chaos. The “players” in the game come from around the world but are required to converge in the UK by a specificed time. For the players in the US and on mainland Europe this will present something of a challenge but with the stakes so high they simply can’t even consider failure.

The action begins in America where a young child goes missing from the appartment through the night. His mother had been looking after him but the boy seems to have slipped out while she was distracted. It is only when she starts receiving text messages which make it clear where her son actually is that the reality of her predicament kicks in. Her son is gone and if she tells anyone then the people that have taken him will kill him.

While readers come to terms with this situation another drama is unfolding. A man who has been at a hockey match with his friend finds that friend is now in danger if he does not play The Game. A young mother who is struggling to keep her life under any form of control, her husband doesn’t look at her any longer, her young children are constantly demanding and even the family dog seems to be making her life challenging. Then The Game lands and her understanding of challenging will really take on meaning.

That’s just three of the players in the game but there are more and each knows that there can be only one winner – so what could happen when they all converge on a single point to see how the game is going to unfold? Well to tell would spoil the enjoyment of reading The Game but this is an intense ride and even when Scott Kershaw takes us away from the five players there are other plots (another Game?) to add depth and muddy the waters too.

Reading The Game was lots of fun with some moments which also caused me upset or an anxiousness for the predicament of the characters. I really enjoyed how the story resolved the threads and found I was still thinking about some of the characters a week or so after I had finished reading. All too often I put down a book, move on and don’t give it a second thought – this means The Game managed to cut-through my “goldfish memory” and that’s always a good endorsement. Well worth watching out for this one.

 

 

The Game is published by Harper Collins on 12 May 2022 and you can order a copy here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-game/scott-kershaw/9780008530877

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