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#TuesdayBookBlog #DREAMLAND by Nancy Bilyeau (@EndeavourQuill)(@Tudorscribe)A wild ride for lovers of historical fiction, amusement parks, and great female protagonists #Blogtour

Posted on January 28, 2020 by OlgaNunez 5 Comments

Hi all! Here I am participating in a blog tour for a book by an author that has featured before on my blog and who’s become a favourite of mine. DREAMLAND by Nancy Bilyeau ‘Achingly believable’ – Publishers Weekly ‘This fast-paced, engrossing novel from Bilyeau… gives readers an up-close and personal view of New York’s Gilded

Posted in Blog Tour, Book launch, Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog 1910s, class system, Coney Island, female protagonist, gender politics, historical ficiton, Jewishness, migration, New York, Prejudice, USA history

#Bookreview #NineElms (Kate Marshall Book 1) by Robert Bryndza (@LittleBrownUK) I liked the main character but not enough attention to detail for me #NetGalley

Posted on January 20, 2020 by OlgaNunez 10 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a book that didn’t rock the world for me, but you might find it more to your taste (I think I should stop reading thrillers with plots that are too closely related to my previous professional life). Nine Elms (Kate Marshall Book 1) by Robert Bryndza From the breakthrough

Posted in Book review, Book reviews copycat killer, female protagonist, NetGalley, new series, Robert Bryndza, serial killers, thriller, UK setting

#TuesdayBookBlog #Blogtour THE BLUE by Nancy Bilyeau (@EndeavourQuill). A great combination of history and adventures

Posted on December 4, 2018 by OlgaNunez 12 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a great novel. I was also invited to participate in the blog tour and I hope you find it as interesting as I do. The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau. ‘Nancy Bilyeau’s passion for history infuses her books’ – Alison Weir ‘With rich writing, surprising twists, and a riveting sense

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog Derby pottery, endeavour quill, female protagonist, France, historical fiction, Huguenot, Madame Pompadour, mystery, pottery, Royal Crown Derby, Sevres, spy, XVIII centure England

#TuesdayBookBlog #Newbook MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER by Oyinkan Braithwaite (@OyinBraithwaite) (@doubledaybooks) Domestic noir, dark humour, and a fantastic new voice

Posted on November 27, 2018 by OlgaNunez 16 Comments

Hi all: I was intrigued by this book from the moment I saw it… My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite “Feverishly hot”–PAULA HAWKINS “The wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.”–MARIE CLAIRE A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog book launch, dark comedy, Dexter, domestic-noir, female protagonist, first-person narrative, Lagos, Nigeria, Serial killer

#Blogtour #HouseofGlass HOUSE OF GLASS by Susan Fletcher (@sfletcherauthor) (@ViragoBooks) A beautiful, contemplative, and touching novel about what it means to be whole

Posted on November 3, 2018 by OlgaNunez 22 Comments

House of Glass by Susan Fletcher A beautiful, contemplative, and touching novel about what it means to be whole June 1914 and a young woman – Clara Waterfield – is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private

Posted in Blog Tour, Book review, Book reviews female protagonist, first person narration, ghosts, gothic novel, osteogenesis imperfecta, physical disability, Susan Fletcher, Victorian, WWI

#Bookreview THE BEAUTY OF BUCHAREST (A Clean Up Crew Thriller Book 1) by S.J. Varengo (@PapaV) (@northernlakepub) Recommended to fans of action and spy thrillers looking for a fun read #Internationalthriller #adventures

Posted on June 4, 2018 by OlgaNunez 15 Comments

Hi all: I am not a big reader of spy and purely action thrillers but when I read the description and the beginning of this book, I had to keep reading… The Beauty of Bucharest (A Clean Up Crew Thriller Book 1) by S. J. Varengo What would you do if you found a body in the

Posted in Book review, Book reviews adventure, adventures, Bucharest, cleaning, female protagonist, international setting, revenge, spy, thriller, violence

#Bookreview THE DARKNESS: HIDDEN ICELAND SERIES, BOOK ONE by Ragnar Jónasson (@ragnarjo) (@MichaelJBooks) #Nordicthriller #TheDarkness A Nordic noir thriller with two fascinating protagonists, D.I. Hulda Hermannsdóttir and Iceland.

Posted on April 16, 2018 by OlgaNunez 34 Comments

Hi all: If you are into Nordic noir and Nordic crime thrillers, you should read on. The Darkness: Hidden Iceland Series, Book One by Ragnar Jónasson Chilling – a must-read’ PETER JAMES ——– A young woman is found dead on a remote Icelandic beach. She came looking for safety, but instead she found a watery grave. A

Posted in Book review, Book reviews asylum seeker, female protagonist, Iceland, Nordic noir, Nordic thrillers, older woman, Ragnar Jónasson, Russian, The Darkness, unreliable narrator

#Newbook Escaping Psychiatry 2. The Case of the Swapped Bodies out on 29th Dec. Special price $0.99 #TuesdayBookBlog

Posted on December 27, 2016 by OlgaNunez 19 Comments

Hi all: If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll remember I’ve been talking about the next book in my series Escaping Psychiatry whose main character, Mary Miller, is a psychiatrist and a writer that somehow gets involved in a number of criminal cases (sometimes more closely than she’d like). Well, now it’s finally really close.

Posted in Book launch, book promo Escaping Psychiatry 2. The case of the swapped bodies, FBI, female protagonist, psychiatry, series

#NewBook LETTER TO CHARO by Estrella Cardona Gamio (@ccgediciones) Small is beautiful

Posted on September 30, 2016 by OlgaNunez 20 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a new book that’s very special to me. I read it and reviewed it in Spanish a while back and have known the author, Estrella Cardona Gamio, who has been writing for many years, and her sister Concha, who looks after the promotional and technical side of their small

Posted in New books, Reviews Concha, epistolary, Estrella Cardona Gamio, female protagonist, letters, Publishing, Spanish, Translation, Writing