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Welcome to the blog tour for The Quiet People by Paul Cleave! More about the book… Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time... Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime? Multi-award winning bestseller Paul Cleave returns with an electrifying and chilling thriller about family, public outrage and what a person might be capable of under pressure, that will keep you guessing until the final page... More about the author… Paul is an award-winning author who divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where most of his nove...

Welcome to the blog tour for All the Places That Were Hurt by Mish Cromer. The author agreed to answers some of my questions so let’s go ahead and dig in! Hi Mish! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of All the Places That Were Hurt ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Hi Silvia, thank you so much!   All the Places that Were Hurt is about a young, recently bereaved woman, May, who leaves her home and beloved sister in London, and returns to rural Vermont in the hope of finding some of her past happiness. Harley, the man she loved and left under painful circumstances ten years before, has unexpectedly also returned and it is their relationship that forms the backbone of the novel. Through this, the story explores the devastating and lasting consequences of trauma and how we might begin to heal from it and find our own place of belonging. It’s also a bit of a love song to the natural world and is very much shaped by the passing seasons....

Welcome to the blog tour for The Chair by GB Williams! Fancy a peek behind the scenes? Here we go… Hi GB! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of The Chair ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A:  Thanks Silvia, appreciate that. The book has two elements, the main story is that of Jay, a hacker who hacks into the wrong thing and, in running from his problems, crashes his car on the remote Cader Idris mountain. Luckily, Jay has the good fortune to be found by members of the mountain rescue team. They, Branwen and Cobb, provide shelter and safety to Jay and stand up to the people who come after him. The second part of the story is about the local vet, Branwen Jones and the struggles she experiences. She doesn’t feel she has a place in the village anymore, and her attraction to Cobb is going unrequited. With secrets and pain to hide, she’s not ready for the additional stresses Jay brings into her life and she’s not sure she can survive it. F...

Welcome to the blog tour for Still Life with a Vengeance by Jan Turk Petrie, who very kindly accepted to answer a few questions for the occasion! Hi Jan! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of Still Life with a Vengeance ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Thank you Silvia. Without giving too much away, it’s the story of Eve who is married to a rich and famous rock guitarist Nick Quenington and living in their restored Somerset Manor House. Unable to have a child together, their adoption hopes are thwarted when Nick and his band mates are accused of rape. Eve believes Nick’s claim that he is completely innocent, but with the press ‘doorstepping’ them and his music career in free fall as a result of the allegations, she begins to question everything she thought she knew. Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing the book or did it take an unexpected turn as the characters grew on the page? A: I began with a rough...