On Bee's Bookshelf

Dashboard Elvis is Dead - David F Ross ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 23/06/2023 A Deadly Covenant - Michael Stanley  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: Crime | Released: 08/12/2022 So Pretty - Ronnie Turner  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 19/01/2023 Never Ever Getting Back Together - Sophie Gonzales  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: YA Romance | Released: 29/11/2022 This Book Kills - Ravena Guron  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: YA Mystery | Released: 05/01/2023 Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 19/01/2023 The Marriage Act - John Marrs  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: Speculative Fiction | Released: 19/01/2023 Drag Queen of Scots - Lawrence Chaney  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre: Memoir | Released: 23/09/2022 Total December Reads: 7 Total 2022 Reads: 183

Genre: Christmas | Romance | Comedy | LGBT+ Release Date: 13th October 2022 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton When Haf and Chris meet a Christmas Party, it's like fate.  It's not love at first sight, or a festive romance, but something else entirely. They were both looking for something and they might just be able to help each other find it. By the end of the night, they're kissing under the mistletoe in front of Chris' ex-girlfriend, and Haf is finally enjoying a night with a new friend after the worst year of her life and facing her first Christmas alone. But when the news spreads about their supposed relationship, Haf finds herself heading off to spend Christmas with Chris' family as his new pretend girlfriend.  But Haf isn't worried - she's not going to run a perfect plan by falling in love with her fake boyfriend. But then, she meets his sister Kit in a small bookstore avalanche and knows that the one thing on her Christmas List is something she can...

Genre: Christmas | Contemporary | Romance Released: 7th October 2022 Publisher: Bookouture  It's November and in London, Christmas has already started. Carnaby Street is full of lights, Oxford Street is full of excited shoppers and everybody is busy making plans.  But Rowan isn't feeling it this year - her daughter is a teenager now and isn't in the mood for milk and cookies anymore, the temp job she took while her dream job was on hold is becoming less temporary and now her ex, the father of her daughter, is getting married and leaving her trailing behind. But at least she has one constant in her life - her friends. And they've come up with a plan - their very own advent calendar, one delivery every day that will make her happy and maybe get her back in control of her life.  Rowan and Clara can't wait to see what happens - and neither can Alex, the delivery driver who has suddenly become very invested in watching this Christmas Mystery unfold … "Christmas sudd...

Genre: Christmas | Contemporary Romance | Romantic Comedy Released: 13th October 2022 Publisher: Head of Zeus | Aria " Christmas. Oh God, how Elodie hated Christmas. She never had as many migraines as she did during the so-called Most Wonderful Time of the Year." Elodie Martin is getting ready for the festive season - but she's not happy about it. Between having to worry about her family toy store not stocking the must-buy toy of the season and trying to find a new Santa after her beloved Pops had a stroke, it's all work and no fun. Their Santa has been their saving grace every year, and they'll need a Christmas Miracle to pull this off. So when Nick Winter, the living embodiment of Christmas Spirit auditions to be their new Santa she can't stand it. But she's going to need him if she has a chance of beating Callum Ashley and his ridiculous eight-story department store this year, especially now they've made a bet that could either make or break Martins...

Genre: Christmas | Romance  Release Date: 24th November 2022 Publisher: Avon Books Eve Bird knows that just like the glitter and glamour of Hollywood, the holidays aren't all they're cracked up to be. She's a successful author, making a name for herself without using the already famous name of her estranged Father - but now that her books are taking off, she finds herself in the last place she'd ever wanted to be: the spotlight. Here, on the film set for the adaptation of her own book, she's there to watch the romance she's written come to life despite the fact her real life is anything but a romance novel and she's going to keep it like that. She likes knowing what happens next, and romance is far too unpredictable. Leading man Duke Carlisle is thinking about the next chapter of his life too, after the very public and dramatic end of his relationship with co-star Daphne. And seeing his favourite romance novelist on set has definitely got him dreaming of lov...

  The last thing Sebina expected when he turned up for work to start on a new pipeline in the Okavango Delta sands was finding human remains. Well actually, the last thing he expected was nine of them. He thought this project was going to help people grow crops, get water into the hot desert, help them to live - not to bury the dead.  Detective Kubu is desperate to solve this and prove to everyone he isn't just a rookie cop, and joins forces with Scottish pathologist Ian MacGregor once again to investigate the last resting place of the bushmen they've found but barely even scratch the surface of the mystery before the elder of a nearby village is murdered. The only leads they have are a woman accusing angered water spirits of the slaughters and decades old missing person reports.  It is supernatural retribution? Is it personal? Is it a conspiracy? Is it a serial killer? Or is it something larger than they could imagine? As accusations of all kinds start to fly and pressur...

Genre: Contemporary | Romance | Fantasy Release Date: 25th October 2022 Publisher: Harper 360 Larimar Cintrón has a secret.  During the day, she's a successful  brand manager for an NY bakery chain and makes enough money to take good care of her parents and abuela. By night , she lets go - takes off her smart suits, puts on some 90's punk records and has fun. Aside from that one night a month - on a full moon. On that night,  Larimar changes into her form as a Ciguapa, a woman that is meant to be a story from Dominican folklore but is much more than a story to her, it's a creature with backwards facing feet and long hair that can run at supernatural speeds and is her deepest secret. Between her non-traditional personality and her secrets, she feels cut off from the world, even her own family at times. So when she meets Ray she can't help but wonder. He quickly embraces everything about her that she usually hides, all her passions and quirks and loves. So maybe, this co...

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’ s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014, in the wake of the failed Scottish independence referendum, and it’ s clear that she’ s searching for someone. Is it Anna Mason, who will go on to lead the country as First Minister? Jamie Hewitt, guitarist from eighties one-hit wonders The Hyptones? Or is it Rabbit – Jude’ s estranged foster sister, now a world-famous artist? Three apparently unconnected people, who share a devastating secret, whose lives were forever changed by one traumatic night in Phoenix, forty years earlier… Taking us back to a school shooting in her Texas hometown, and a 1980s road trip across the American West – to San Francisco and on to New York – Jude’ s search ends in Glasgow, and a final, shocking event that only one person can full...