#Spotlight on Conviction By Jack Jordan – his new #Thriller @JackJordanBooks @simonschusterUK #compulsivereaders #BlogTour #Conviction

Today I have a spotlight post on Conviction, but first, let me tell you a bit about the hugely successful Do No Harm. It is a Sunday Times 10 bestseller for 2 weeks running, Waterstones Thriller of The Month and #2 in the Saturday Times bestseller list. It has been making huge waves across all social media platforms. Find out more about the medical, psychological crime thriller that is so cleverly written by Jack Jordan in my review link: Do No Harm.

Conviction – published 22nd June and can be pre-ordered for a special signed copy from Waterstones link – Waterstones – Signed Copy of Conviction is hot off the heels of Do No Harm, Out Now (other retailers can be found below).

Conviction is set to be another thrilling book, this time within the world of the legal system. Find out about this exciting book in the blurb and then you’ll come across the link as to how to buy such gripping books. You won’t want to miss them!
Don’t just take it from me, take a look at the comments early readers are already making, some may just be authors you enjoy.

CONVICTION

Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage

children as they slept and burning their house to the ground.

When the case lands on barrister Neve Harper’s desk, she knows

it could make her career.

A matter of days before the case, as Neve is travelling home for

the night, she is approached by a man. He tells her she must

throw the case or the secret about her husband’s disappearance

will be revealed. Failing that, he will kill everyone she cares

about, until she does as she is told.

Neve must make a choice – go against every principle she has

ever had, or the people she loves will die.

Here are some of the comments early readers are saying about it, some of whom are very popular authors themselves who just can’t get enough of it, looking at their glowing positivity:

‘No one crafts a dilemma quite like Jack Jordan. Conviction is a tour de force of a legal thriller that will have you guessing at every turn and then gasping when the plot inevitably catches you unawares. His characters are beautifully and shockingly flawed yet so vividly drawn you just can’t help investing in them – and if you’re anything like I was, you’ll be swept away on a thrilling ride that starts from the very first page’ Janice Hallett

‘No one crafts a dilemma quite like Jack Jordan. Conviction is a tour de force of a legal
If you like a legal thriller you’ll love this!’ – Harriet Tyce

‘A masterclass in misdirection. Smart, stylish, taut and twisting. Conviction is Jack Jordan’s best yet’ Chris Whitaker

Where you can buy Conviction. Also look out for Do No Harm if you haven’t already read it

Waterstones Foyles Bookshop.org Amazon

#Review By Lou of The Cornish Hideaway by Jennifer Bibby @jennyfromthewr1 @simonschusterUK @BookMinxSJV @#TeamBATC #TheCornishHideaway #Blogtour

The Cornish Hideaway
By Jennifer Bibby

Enter sun-drenched Cornwall in the Cornish Hideaway. Discover more in the blurb and review below.
Thanks to Books and the City – Simon and Schuster for inviting me on the blog tour with a book in-exchange of an honest review.

Blurb

All Freya has ever wanted to do is paint. So when she fails her Master’s Degree in Art, on the same day that her boyfriend decides he needs a ‘more serious’ partner, to Freya it feels like the end of the world.

Luckily, she has a saviour in the shape of best friend Lola, who invites her to the sleepy Cornish village of Polcarrow, to work in her café. With nothing keeping her in London, Freya jumps at the chance of a summer by the sea.

Freya needs time to focus on herself. But then dark and mysterious biker Angelo blows into town on a stormy afternoon, with his own artistic dreams and a secretive past, and Freya’s plans of a romance-free summer fly straight out of the window…

Heart-warming, heartfelt and romantic, The Cornish Hideaway is a novel of community, friendship and learning to love again, for fans of Jenny Colgan, Cathy Bramley and Heidi Swain.

Review

The Cornish Hideaway is a bit of lovely escapism to curl up with after a busy day. There isn’t anything keeping Freya in London and Cornwall is the place of choice, when a friend practically rescues her and offers her a job in a cafe. This is when her life changes, from going from thinking it is the end of the world to being in a village by the sea. It was then going to become her coastal hideaway, after all, what could happen in somewhere that seems so sleepy? A new lover for starters, someone who is arty and is unlike the previous guy in her life, who was way too serious for her anyway and possibly not helped that she didn’t pass her art course. I quite like that she isn’t some high-flyer because not everyone can be, nor is in real life (the world just as not cope for a start if everyone is) and it gives a small sense of reality and shows that for the few, that they can get lucky and it at least provides escapism.

Alongside what seems like a perfect idyll, is her new romance entering Freya’s life, who has secrets and quite the dark past for her to learn. There’s quite a rocky road ahead…

It is time to be whisked away to Polcarrow in Cornwall and all its beautifully described scenery an uplifting characters with quite the past and quite the present.

About the Author

As a lifelong lover of stories, I spent my teenage years wowing various teachers with historical epics before finding my feet writing modern love stories. I enjoy exploring the lives of women as they set out on life changing adventures, which usually lead them somewhere picturesque and full of new friendships and of course, the promise of romance. I adore a romantic hero with a dark backstory, the typical bad boy turned good.

In addition to being a bibliophile (my to be read pile is embarrassing stacked all around my house) I love classy cocktails, cake and dressing in the vintage style – never leaving the house without my signature red lipstick. I’m happiest by the sea, or stomping around a muddy field and I love to travel (Venice is my absolute favourite place, it’s so enchanting and calls to the artist in me.) I love medieval history, steam trains and firmly believe dinosaurs improve everything.

The Cornish Hideaway is my debut novel and I hope you enjoy your trip to Polcarrow. Please feel free to follow me on twitter for sea, scones and story inspiration @jennyfromthewr1 Happy reading!

#Review By Lou of This Could Be Everything By Eva Rice @EvaRiceAuthor @simonschusterUK @simonschusterPR @RandomTTours #ThisCouldBeEverything #1990 #ContemporaryFiction #Music #1990Vibe

This Could Be Everything
By Eva Rice

Transport yourself back to the 1990’s with This Could Be Everything. It even ups the ante with a QR code containing the sound tracks of the era. Discover the blurb and my review below as today I close the Random T. Tours blog tour.

Blurb

From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters.

It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.

February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.

THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is a coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…

Review

The year is 1990. I was in the middle of my young childhood. It wasn’t until just a few years later, I would hit my teens, however, I was very aware of the music and film scene in 1990. It was pre-Richard Curtis era (thankfully as I was way too young to watch anything he produced). This Could Be Everything, well, 1990 had that vibe and as a young child realising the earth wasn’t about to spin off its axis and we didn’t fall off the cliff edge, it may well have been everything (I was an imaginative child alright). . I was also a teen in the 90’s and she captures that vibe well of music and fashion and the wider world well.

This Could Be Everything is nostalgic for anyone who lived through it, after all, who wasn’t aware of Kate Moss or Pretty Woman? It was an era of change, of innovations we see and use today and it had a certain grit.
This book is a must to relive it and also listen to the music tracks in the QR code within the book to get you in the mood, just for fun. Revisit New Kids on the Block, Kylie Minogue, The Blues Brothers, Madonna, Erasure and many more. The ingenious QR code in the book links into the list on Spotify. I really liked this idea.

February Kingdom, aged nineteen also lived through 1990 and it captures that belief of This Could Be Everything type feeling well. This is her take on the year and one where she was coming of age. Turns out humans then aren’t so different from now with tragedies and life continuing on through the darkness. Readers see February’s life and how it tumbled, first with her losing both parents when she was younger and secondly with her losing her twin sister. Just as you think this is going to be an emotionally grim book, it turns out not to be so. February has a lot to deal with on top of the usual stuff of trying to find your place in the world when you step into adulthood and the wider world, but this book has a sunny disposition, not only in the way it is nostalgically written, but in the hope. February comes across a sunny, yellow canary that has flown into her house, whom belongs to Theo, called Yellow. Yellow becomes like a companion, which helps her to navigate life, including grief and makes her want to try to find a future and that light at the end of the tunnel. It shows that things do and can change even when you don’t think it can and as a reader it is easy to root for February.

The book vividly encapsulates its reader, whisking back to 1990 well and what it’s like at that turning point of really growing up. It is a slow burn, but it is well worth sticking with. It is intense at times and lighthearted at times, It’ll take you on a great journey of both nostalgia and the depth of life and all that’s thrown at it.

I totally recommend you get the book, put on the tunes and read!

Thanks to Simon and Schuster for the book, for which I enjoyed a talk about last year and for Random T. Tours for inviting me to review on the blog tour.