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From rural England to Sydney, Australia.
It’s intrigue all the way!
Mailbox Monday / New on my shelf

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I have two new additions to my virtual library this week, both very different, yet both equally intriguing!

For the first book, I have to thank author Rachel Amphlett, who continues to have enough faith in me to make contact whenever she has a new title to share with the reading/blogging community. Her review copies are distributed by BookFunnel, who make downloads seamless to complete.

My second new find comes courtesy of James at Henry Roi – PR, who have kindly chosen Fiction Books twice now, to help promote and review books by some of their many authors. Long may our association continue!

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NONE THE WISER – Detective Mark Turpin – Book #1

Cover Image of the book 'None The Wiser' by author Rachel AmphlettWhen a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.

New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and leaves no trace behind.

After a second priest is killed, his broken body bearing similar ritualistic abuse, the police are confronted by a horrifying truth – there is a serial killer at large with a disturbing vendetta.

As fear grips the once tranquil countryside, Mark and his team race to uncover a tangle of dark secrets and lies before the killer strikes again.

In doing so, Mark finds out that the truth is more twisted than he could ever have imagined…

RACHEL AMPHLETT

Image Of Author Rachel AmphlettBefore turning to writing, Rachel played guitar in bands, worked as a TV and film extra, dabbled in radio as a presenter and freelance producer for the BBC, and worked in publishing as a sub-editor and editorial assistant.

She now wields a pen instead of a plectrum and writes crime fiction and spy novels, including the ‘Dan Taylor’ espionage novels and the ‘Detective Kay Hunter’ series.

Having spent 13 years based in Brisbane, Australia, Rachel recently returned to the UK. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and the Crime Writers Association, and cites her writing influences as Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and Robert Ludlum…

Rachel has both EU and Australian citizenship and remains a keen traveller at heart.

Catch up with all the latest news at Rachel’s website

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GRASPING AT WATER

Cover image of the book 'Grasping At Watr' by the author Carmel BendonWhen a young, unidentified woman is pulled alive and well from Sydney Harbour in 2013, the connections to another woman – found in similar circumstances forty years earlier – present psychiatrist Kathryn Brookley with a terrible decision as the events of the present and past begin to mirror each other and the gap between truth and illusion shrinks.

When the young woman goes further and declares that she has lived continuously since coming to ‘understanding’ in the 14th century, her vivid accounts of life, love, childbirth, and loss in the Middle Ages seem so authentic that they test Kathryn’s scientific objectivity to the limit.

As Kathryn delves she discovers that she is not the only one whose habitual assumptions about life have been torn asunder by an apparent experience of the miraculous in connection with the mystery woman.

CARMEL BENDON

Image of author Carmel BendonCarmel is a writer and presenter on “all things medieval” to academic and general audiences. She has a PhD in Medieval Literature and a 1st Class Honours in Early English, both degrees from Macquarie University where she lectured in English Literature and Medieval Studies.

Her specialist research field is Medieval Mystics and this was the basis of her successful non-fiction book Mysticism and Space. Other academic publications include chapters and articles on St Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and Hildegard of Bingen, and on anchorites and the practice of immurement.

More generally, she has published on Geoffrey Chaucer, Jorge Luis Borges, and Oscar Wilde, and has been a contributor to the International Dictionary of Literary Biography.

She is now concentrating on writing fiction and Grasping at Water is her debut novel.

Carmel lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, a faithful dog, and a wild garden, and is the proud mother of three adult daughters.

Visit Carmel at her website 

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Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share links to the books that came into their house during the last week. This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well, after all you never know where that next “must read” book will come from.

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I can’t remember a time, even as a child, when I haven’t been passionate about books and reading.
I began blogging, when I realised just how many other people out there shared my passion for the written word and I have been continually amazed at the wealth of books that are available and the amount of great new friends I have made, from literally 'The Four Corners Of The World'.

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Written by Yvonne