Tag: Review
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AudioFile review: Murder on Milverton Square audiobook
It was a very nice surprise when this review popped up! Highlights include “delightful series debut” and “entertaining cozy mystery” with a well-deserved “wonderfully narrated” for Philip Battley‘s reading of the Murder on Milverton Square audiobook. Click through to read the full review: Read Murder on Milverton Square yourself See what the book is about,…
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Ashhurst Village Voice book review: Murder on Milverton Square
Ashhurst is a town with a population of about 3,500 residents, located just ten minutes’ drive up the road from me. Unfortunately, Ashhurst had to go, so I wiped the town from the map. But why? To make way for my fictional town of Milverton! I couldn’t have two small towns just across the river…
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Recent reader reviews for The Milverton Mysteries
Stephen Horne of Reading with Stepphy has recently read and reviewed the first two books in The Milverton Mysteries: It’s always so rewarding to hear from readers who’ve enjoyed Addison’s misadventures and spending time with Milverton’s many other residents! Special mentions go to Mabel the troublemaker, and Sergeant Jake Murphy who Stephen has dubbed Sergeant…
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A Rake of His Own by AJ Lancaster
A Rake of His Own by AJ Lancaster cleverly combines magic and the mundane, botany and sorcery, romance and mystery, to tell this wonderful story of two idiots falling in love while solving a murder. 🌈 Gay fae😏 Longing and lustful looks🕵️♂️ Murder, mystery, intrigue!🧐 Botanical geekery😈 Sinfully swoon-worthy audiobook narration🙄 These guys kidding no-one…
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Mark Waddell’s debut novel: The Body in the Back Garden
Crescent Cove is a picturesque coastal setting for the small-town mystery and slow-burn romance of Mark Waddell’s debut novel, The Body in the Back Garden. Luke is a bolshie guy from the big city who has inherited his aunt’s cottage and antiques shop in a small coastal town. He wants to be in and out…
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Milverton review on TikTok
Dimitra Rose makes fantastic TikTok videos, often related to the spicy/romance/fantasy books that she usually prefers to read. Her videos are so much fun, and I recommend giving her a follow. After we met on TikTok, Dimitra decided to give Murder on Milverton Square a go. Being a cosy mystery, it’s very much outside what…
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The Ghost of Ivy Barn by Mark Stay
August, 1940. The ghost, the witch and the traitor… As the Battle of Britain rages overhead, a warlock leader from the Council of High Witches comes to Woodville with a ritual to repel the imminent Nazi invasion. The only catch is it involves full-frontal nudity on the White Cliffs of Dover. The Witches of Woodville…
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Babes in the Wood by Mark Stay
July, 1940. In a quiet village in rural Kent, a magical mystery leads to murder… Woodville has returned to ‘normal’ after the departure of the Crow Folk. The villagers put out fires from aircraft shot down in the Battle of Britain, and Faye Bright discovers that magic can be just as dangerous as any weapon.…
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The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch by Garth Nix
A truly wild ride in an offbeat, inventive world of warrior scientist nuns and a forest on the move to fend off invading aliens. Such a rich and frenetic story, so full of wonder. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch is a 20–30 minute short story by Garth…
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Jack In A Box by Angela C Nurse
Who do you trust when everyone has a secret? When single mother Rowan joins her Uncle Jack’s detective agency she doesn’t expect his murder to be her first case. To find out who is responsible for his death she will need to solve another mystery, the disappearance of Jack’s best friend 30 years earlier. Someone…