Neslin Reads: A Book Blog

Today I am taking part in the blog tour for a crime thriller " Hunter's Force " by Val Penny , organised by Love Book Group.  There you go. TITLE: HUNTER'S FORCE AUTHOR: VAL PENNY GENRE: CRIME THRILLER BLURB: Hunter by name – Hunter by nature: Can DI Hunter Wilson keep Edinburgh safe when he is the hunted? DI Hunter Wilson is woken in the early hours of the morning by a call from his son, Cameron. Who has murdered the young student who shares Cameron's flat? Why would anybody want to kill a young woman recently arrived in the city? Now that the united police force, Police Scotland exists, Hunter must call in the new Major Incident Team (MIT) to lead the investigation. Hunter's ability to investigate anything further is put in severe doubt when someone from his past decides to take revenge on him. He goes missing and his team have no idea where to look for him. Who would want to stop Hunter in his tracks?  Hunter's team must w

Today I am sharing David Barker's guest post as a part of a blog tour for his novel White Gold . He shares a really interesting experience with us. White Gold is the last book in the Gaia Trilogy . Here you go. BLURB VENGEANCE ALWAYS HAS A PRICE Sim Atkins, Overseas Division agent, returns to Earth, having saved the Moonbase from a deadly terrorist plot (see Rose Gold). All Sim can think about is finding the criminals responsible. But his fury and lust for revenge are put on hold when a nuclear warhead is stolen by Terra Former leader Matthias Larsson. Can Sim and his colleagues track down the terrorist cell and disarm the device in time? White Gold is the gripping finale in the compellingly original Gaia Trilogy, page-turning thrillers that provoke as well as exciting. AUTHOR'S GUEST POST: FILM STARS When you tell people that you’ve had a book published, there’s often a follow-up along the lines of: would you like it to be made into a movie?

Today I am taking part in a blog tour for "They Shoot Corpses, Don't They?" by C.S McLean, organised by Love Book Group.  TITLE: THEY SHOOT CORPSES, DONT'T THEY? AUTHOR: C.S MCLEAN GENRE: CRIME FICTION, HORROR BLURB An original blend of crime fiction and horror - Zombie Noir. Pat O’Hare is the only (living) private detective in Farrelton, a crime-ridden city still recovering from the ravages of an undead uprising. Pat is hired to find the missing granddaughter of a rich industrialist. But, what starts out as simple enough job turns into a fight for survival as he finds himself pulled into a deadly mystery where nobody can be trusted. Helped only by a trigger happy ex-cop and a washed up boxer with a pathological fear of trees, Pat has to use every trick in the book just to stay alive. Caught between corrupt police, gun-wielding hitmen and a ruthless crime lord, Pat soon learns that the zombies are not the most dangerous creatures in town.

TITLE: THE WOMEN WHO RULED INDIA AUTHOR: ARCHANA GARODIA GUPTA PUBLISHER: HACHETTE INDIA GENRE: HISTORY BLURB: The history of India, more often than not, is a history of men who were in charge. Largely forgotten are the women who, even centuries earlier, shaped the fates of entire kingdoms. In The Women Who Ruled India, writer and researcher Archana Garodia Gupta revives 20 such powerful figures from the archives, offering us a glimpse of their fascinating lives. Among them are Begum Samru, a courtesan who went on to become the head of a mercenary army, and the ruler of Sardhana; Didda of Kashmir, known for her keen political instinct and ruthlessness that spared no one; Rani Abakka of Ullal, the fearless queen who took on Portuguese colonizers in their heyday; and Rani Mangammal of Madurai, the famed administrator who built alliances at a time when going to war was the order of the day.  These women and others like them built roads, instituted laws and wer

Today I am taking part in the blog tour for "The Fourth Courier" by Timothy Jay Smith, organised by Love Book Group. TITLE: THE FOURTH COURIER AUTHOR: TIMOTHY JAY SMITH GENRE: THRILLER BLURB: For International Espionage Fans of Alan Furst and Daniel Silva, a new thriller set in post-Soviet era Poland. It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him—and the bomb—before it ends up in the wrong hands. Smith’s depiction of post-cold war Poland is gloomily atmospheric and murky in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Suspenseful, thrilling, and smart, The Fourth Cou