Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you’re adding to your shelves, be it buying or borrowing. From ‘real’ books you’ve purchased, a book you’ve borrowed, a book you’ve been given or an e-book they can all be shared!
I have a modest list to share with my fellow bookworms this week:
Firstly from NetGalley I have a copy of The Girl With No Past by Kathryn Croft, the latest name to be signed to Bookouture, a publisher whose crime fiction hasn’t let me down yet.
Blurb
Twenty years running from your past. Today it catches up.
Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life or friends until – longing for a connection – she meets Julian. For the first time she dares to believe she can live a normal life.
Then, on the twentieth anniversary of that day, she receives a card. Someone knows the truth about what happened. Someone who won’t stop until they’ve destroyed the life Leah has created.
But is Leah all she seems? Or does she deserve everything she gets?
Everyone has secrets. But some are deadly
I also have a copy of Boxes by Pascal Garnier which I chose after reading a review by fellow blogger Guy Savage of His Futile Preoccupations of another book by this author, The Islanders and put him on my to-read list.
Blurb
He was the sole survivor of the natural disaster that at one time or another strikes us all, known as ‘moving house’.
Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits her return, Brice busies himself with DIY and walks around the village.
He gradually comes to know his new neighbours including Blanche, an enigmatic woman in white, who has lived on her own in the big house by the graveyard since the death of her father, to whom Brice bears a curious resemblance… NetGalley
From Amazon Vine I have another psychological thriller, also unsurprisingly and annoyingly with the tag line Gone Girl Meets The Girl on the Train, called Little Girl Gone by Alexandra Burt
Blurb
A baby goes missing. But does her mother want her back?
When Estelle’s baby daughter is taken from her cot, she doesn’t report her missing. Days later, Estelle is found in a wrecked car, with a wound to her head and no memory.
Estelle knows she holds the key to what happened that night – but what she doesn’t know is whether she was responsible… Amazon
Lastly I purchased a book based upon a recommendation to one of my trusted book advisors, Margot Kinsberg of Confessions of a Mystery Novelist who featured What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn in one of her informative blog posts; Pushing The Town Away
Blurb
The 1980s: Ten-year-old Kate Meaney – with her ‘Top Secret’ notebook and Mickey her toy monkey – is busy being a junior detective. She observes goings-on and follows ‘suspects’ at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping centre and in her street, where she is friends with the newsagent’s son, Adrian. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion and is hounded out of his home by the press.
Then, in 2004, Lisa is working as a deputy manager at Your Music, a cut-price record store. Every day, under the watchful eye of the CCTV, she tears her hair out at the behaviour of her customers and colleagues. But when she meets security guard Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl he keeps glimpsing on the centre’s CCTV. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, they investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks. Amazon
Any of these take your fancy or perhaps you’ve already read them?
What have you found to read this week? Please do share in the comments below
Oh, I love the look of all of these, especially Little Girl Gone. Thanks for sharing…and enjoy!
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Thank you for visiting Laurel 🙂
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I really like the look of What Was Lost. Completely put off Little Girl Gone just because of the title!
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I know how many more titles like this can we take? I’m hoping the story is better!
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Thank you, Cleo. You just made me add four more books to my TBR ist.
As to your question… Nowadays books seem to find me. 😉
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Haha books seem to find me too! 🙂
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Thanks very much, Cleo, for the kind mention and link. 🙂 – I really do hope you’ll like What Was Lost. The Garnier looks terrific, too – that’s one of his I’ve not (yet) read. I’ll be keen to know what you think of both of these.
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I’m really looking forward to reading Boxes, I’ve not read any Garnier yet so I jumped at the chance of this one – and as you can tell I just couldn’t resist What Was Lost!!
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I can second Margot’s recommendation of ‘What Was Lost’. The others I don’t know, but I’m definitely interested in hearing more.
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ooh even better re What Was Lost – I just need to find some time to read it now!
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Little Girl Gone sounds really good, but yeah, I hate how publishers try and capture attention by comparing to actual books. It’s very rarely similar, and it’s not fair to that author either, I don’t think.
-Lauren
http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
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I really dislike the tag lines like this on books – The Girl With No Past has a similar one and as you say it doesn’t do the author any favours either if this is the only reason why someone picks up the book.
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That tag line is annoying. Plus anything that claims to be another Gone Girl is an immediate rejection from me.
I hope you like Boxes. That’s one of the two Garniers I have left to read (unless someone digs up more titles).
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Thanks again for the Garnier recommendation – I loved your review and put some on my wishlist so I was delighted to see this one on NetGalley. I hate the tag lines and I really think the publishers do the author a disservice by using them.
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Some great looking books and they all sound like ones I would like to read. Happy reading.
sherry @ fundinmental My Sunday Memes
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Thanks for visiting Sherry 🙂
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