QBD Reviews: Smoke gets in your eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Death in the modern world is something that polite society does not ponder upon for too long, nor is it something that we really discuss openly and honestly. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes recounts one woman’s journey into the mysterious world of death, from witnessing a death at the tender age of eight to the […]

QBD Reviews: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Eight years ago, the indie kids battled vampires. Before that, it was the soul-sucking ghosts. Now something else is going on; indie kids are dying, there’s some kind of mysterious blue light searching for them, inhabiting townsfolk, and Satchel is in love with an alien prince she sees whenever she holds a pendant left to […]

Reviewsday: JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren

Before I start telling you about JFK: The Smoking Gun, it’s important to talk about the author. Colin McLaren is a former police detective sergeant and task force leader, who spent four years researching the JFK cold case. He gained access to, and thoroughly analysed, the full 27 volumes of the Warren Commission Report, the […]

Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham

I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racing Someone is coming They’re going to find me A mother and her teenage daughter are found brutally murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin […]