On Bee's Bookshelf

Let it Snow - Beth Moran  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Christmas | Released: 30/08/2022 How to Kill Men and Get Away With It - Katy Brent ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 12/10/2022 Santa Maybe - Mary Jayne Baker  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Christmas | Released: 13/10/2022 Santa, Please Bring Me a Boyfriend - Sophie Ranald  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Christmas | Released: 07/10/2022 A Touch of Moonlight - Yaffa S Santos  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fantasy | Released: 25/10/2022 Make You Mine This Christmas - Lizzie Huxley-Jones  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Genre: Christmas | Released: 13/10/2022 Just For December - Laura Jane Williams  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Genre: Christmas | Released: 23/11/2022 Total November Reads: 7

Join me as we take a look through the bookshelves of our favourite writers, readers and book lovers - today we're talking all things books with Roxanne Bouchard. Roxanne is the author of unmistakably distinct novels that call you to the sea and beyond.  She says, "Before being a writer, I was always curious. I like to spy on largely unknown male universes; for example, the military and fishermen have inspired a large part of my work. I am a playwright, essayist and novelist. The novels in my detective series Moralès take place in Gaspésie – the a large peninsula in Quebec, Canada, bordered by the Gulf of St Lawrence. I meet people who inspire my characters, I hear stories that encourage investigations. I like that research with people mixes with writing, and that fiction is tinged with reality." What are you reading now? I have just finished Johana Gustawsson's latest novel, The Bleeding , but in I read it in French. Parts of the story are set in Quebec and Johana, wh...

Genre: Crime | Thriller Release Date: Expected 10th November 2022 Publisher: Orenda Books "Pain tourists - people who revel in the misery of others." James has lived multiple lives - there's the one before his parents cold-blooded execution during a home invasion when he was just a child, the one before everything went wrong, and then the one he lived during the nine-year coma he fell into after being shot that fateful night. And now, the latest life he gets to live after he manages to finally wake up. Rebecca is driving herself into madness trying to catch Copy Joe - a prolific murderer who takes sick pleasure in mimicking the most horrific killers like the Christchurch Carver when she is tasked with taking up the cold case of James and the night he was shot. The very same case her colleague Theo Tate couldn't solve almost a decade ago and she isn't sure if she can either. But as James starts to recover and open up to his Doctor about the mysterious life he led...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Thriller | Mystery Release Date: 12th October 2022 Publisher: HQ "Before, she didn't know how much effort killing really took. How people struggled even when it was hopeless, how long it took to asphyxiate someone. How annoying blood stains are." But Kitty Collins knows better now - she knows how to kill men and how to get away with it. On the surface, she's a successful influencer living in a trendy part of London with plenty of family wealth - but she loathes every single moment of it, just dying to find something to give meaning to her empty days. The first kill was an accident. A drunken, violent man who didn't even treat her like a human. She didn't mean to kill him. But she is sick and tired of men, of the world they've created to hurt and kill women without being held accountable. Not the abusers, the rapists, not even the stalker commenting death threats on her photos. None of them face the consequences of their action...

  For Eli, nothing ever ends. Mostly because he can't finish anything. He can't quit his terrible job that he's never going to progress in, he can't finish his relationship even though he doesn't want to be with his girlfriend, he can't stop going to the same pub along the route home from work every day, and he can't finish writing a novel despite starting 733 first chapters.  But then, his best friend Mike ends something in the most final way possible - death. But instead of pain and grief, Eli finds a new sense of determination in the wake of Mikes suicide - the determination to finally finish everything he's been putting off. To see something through until the end. So, he picks up a pen. He writes again. He will get to chapter two this time. But there's something about the stories on Eli's pages that don't seem quite right. They're somewhere between fact and fiction, between speculation and sinister. And as his own stories move forward...