THE GIRL UNDER THE FLOOR BY CHARLIE GALLAGHER – BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHED BY JOFFE BOOKS ON THE 26th JANUARY 2023 Four days earlier. Maddie’s partner Vince is first on the scene. A single mother has been stabbed to death in her own home. And her terrified young daughter is trapped under the floorboards. Jade saw everything — but can remember nothing. Now. A rare Saturday morning off for Detective Maddie Ives. She’s about to have a long, relaxing shower when she gets the call: There’s been another one . . . Ron and Sandy Blackman’s brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their idyllic rural home. They’ve been stabbed multiple times;…
View PostTHE FRIEND BY CHARLIE GALLAGHER – BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHED BY AVON ON THE 1st APRIL 2021 Charlie was a serving UK police officer for thirteen years. During that time he had many roles, starting as a frontline response officer, then a member of a specialist tactical team, and also as a detective investigating the more serious offenses. His books are a series of thrillers and, rather unsurprisingly, policing is central to the stories. He quit the force to write full time. Charlie lives on the south coast of the U.K with his wife and two daughters, a springer spaniel, a tortoise, and a cat called Ted who has…
View PostFOLKESTONE BOOK FESTIVAL 2024
I went to an author event at the book festival last week as it was an introduction to some of our local authors, I thought I knew most of them but I was super surprised to see the line up and only knew three of them! Where have they been hiding, I made contact with most of them and waiting to hear from them about their writing journey and books. I will then do a series of posts about each author, I am excited to get to know them. It was lovely to catch up with Paul Robinson…
View PostMY WRITING GROUP IN FOLKESTONE, KENT
WRITE BY THE SEA The writing group that I run here in Folkestone is doing so well, we have such a great group of people that all share their knowledge. We have a group meeting once a month on a Thursday evening where we have a chat about any book news that I have, we then discuss the exercise that we have completed which involves some sharing their work, or asking questions. I like to keep it very informal so as not to put people off from sharing. If any members want to ask questions or share some of their…
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