Blog Tour and Review – Best Served Cold by Pat Adams-Wright @books_n_all @WritePAW

I am pleased to be the first stop on the Tour for Best Served Cold. This was an interesting read, and it was my first read of Pat Adams-Wright. A story of murder, psychological thriller, and twists and turns.

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Best Served Cold

Crime Fiction

Synopsis

DCI Kirsty Savidge and her team (MCTF – Major Crimes Task Force) are tasked with solving the murder of Avril Webb, the third member of a vicious, bullying school gang from twenty-five years ago, to be killed in a matter of weeks. Although two previous deaths are brought to her attention by pathologist Dr Benedict Aldredge (Benny), they have been ruled a drowning and a gang-related murder in another district. Once Kirsty is aware of them, her detective instincts begin to kick-in, but because of the different Modi Operandi, she’s not sure she’ll be able to convince her superior Chief Superintendent Alison Fry, of a connection. The two women have history and cooperation is rarely a given. However, during the interviews into Avril’s death the remaining members of the gang are adamant about a link between the deaths and press Kirsty to investigate further. This gives Kirsty a legitimate reason to ask for the other two cases to be reviewed although none of those in the higher echelons would want to hear the term ‘serial killer’.

Another murder occurs quite soon, again with a different MO. At the same time, Kirsty becomes aware she’s had an intruder in her home, but she and DS Danny Hewitt decide to put off any investigation until the current case is finished. Also, Chief Superintendent Fry appears to be having some personal problems when Kirsty spots her wrist wrapped in bandages and bruising on her neck. The inclement weather is also having an effect on the investigation, as some people are having to work from home, including Savidge and Fry, who finds herself stranded at Kirsty’s cottage because of the heavy snowfall. Fry brought news Kirsty could proceed with linking all the cases. Members of the now covert group (nobody is aware in the present that these people are still linked and running false businesses for their leader, Chris Shaw), are now beginning to take care of their own security turning down protective custody. The police become suspicious.

Throughout, there is a running commentary from the murderer, about his methods and reasoning. Kirsty has her suspicions and is convinced one of the gang members is carrying out the murders. Only when information from those badly bullied at school does the method of the killings fall into place. Background information on two of suspects is proving illusive. A failed copy-cat attack narrows Kirsty’s choice to one and covert surveillance is set-up. At the time of Avril’s funeral the next day, it’s revealed the man watching the suspect has been murdered and the suspect has disappeared. He’s gone to Plan B – murdering the rest of the gang at the funeral. He kills two more using sniper-fire, then escapes. At the airport he is apprehended and held at gunpoint by two armed response officers, but is then shot himself when one officer mistakes a remote-control for the handle of a gun. The suspect’s lap-top reveals all, in the form of two books so all questions can be answered at a meal supplied by the Chief Superintendent. At the end of the book we are left wondering whose Kirsty’s intruder was and also who had leaked information to allow a copy-cat attack.

Pat Adams Wright Author photo Pat Adams-Wright Author Bio

Pat Adams-Wright was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK, on the 15th October 1954, in Wellesley Barracks, to a sergeant major father and a working mother. Teacher trained in Liverpool, she actually taught very little during the austere period for practical subjects, doing any work she could find to keep the wolf from the door. However, this did provide plenty of experience and writing material. Finally settled into a teaching job, disaster struck after an accident left her disabled. After many years of using writing to distract her from pain, she successfully completed her debut novel, Run, which was published on the 18th April, 2015.

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My Review:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 out of 5 stars

A woman is murdered in her own garage upon arriving home from a night out with friends. The murderer has posed her body suggestively and it’s not his first murder. As DCI Kirsty Savidge and her team are investigating this murder a man is murder. These two victims are link in their past. As the investigation goes on, DCI Savidge is informed that there were two other murders recently of two men who are of the same age as these two victims. Do they have a serial killer on their hands in Halifax?

I liked the plot of the story and the characters worked very well together. I enjoyed the suspense and the unfolding of the story and the crime. It was perfectly paced and the way that the plot unfolded and showed who the murderer was kept me wondering until almost the end of the book. I think I figured it out just before DCI Savidge.

I give this story a 4-star review and recommend it to readers who like psychological thrillers, police procedural and stories with twists.

Review of: HOT SEAL Hero by Lynn Raye Harris @GiveMeBooksPR and @LynnRayeHarris

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5 stars

I love the HOT members and their partners.

Ryan “Dirty Harry” Callahan had a bad night and the pounding on his door is not making today great either. The ringing of the doorbell is almost as bad as the pounding in his head. When he gets up to see who is making his head hurt worse, he’s struck by the beauty of the woman ringing his doorbell and waking him up.

Chloe Cooper is moving into her new rental, but the moving truck can’t get into her driveway with the neighbor’s truck in the way. The rude mover is making her feel uncomfortable with the way that he is staring at her and talking to her chest, so she has no problem with walking away to ask the neighbor to move his truck.

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Chloe is a woman who is fighting to regain her independence after escaping a bad relationship with a man who was not only violent to her but is also in a militia and against the government. She is ready to be on her own and find herself as well as take care of herself, but after meeting Dirty, will she be alone for long?

I love Dirty and his team. They are a family and will watch each other’s backs without question. If one of the team meets someone that they care about, the whole team will fight for them as well. That’s a true family. Even when these guys could get into trouble for going off on their own to save one of their own, they are all in and no one asks questions, they are all there to help no matter the consequences. Chloe learns pretty quickly that trust and acceptance can be quick with the right group of people.

I give this story a 5-star review and look forward to more of the series with Neo’s story hopefully next.

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Review of In Moonlight and Memories (Volumes 1 – 3) by Julie Ann Walker

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5 stars

Beautifully tragic!

A beautifully tragic love story that will leave you raw and in tears.

Cassius Clay Armstrong is a young man who is battling with his mind and his heart to give Magnolia May Carter the life she deserves, even if she is not aware that it’s also the life that she wants. Cassius “Cash” strolled into Magnolia “Maggie’s” life when she was but 15 and his heart found her and wouldn’t let go, but life has a way of tricking you sometimes. He knew that he was not good enough for her and he was also a young man who carried shame for his home life. He didn’t want Maggie to know that his father was a terrible man who had no love for him.

Magnolia May Carter was a young girl who had no felt alone in her world, until one boy found her in the library and helped her realize that life could continue even with the heartache that she was carrying around. At 14 Maggie thought that no cared, and she was so lonely and depressed that life had no meaning any longer, until Lucien Dubois walks into the library and finds her in the Harry Potter section. The find that they have a lot in common and their friendship starts strong and easy.

Lucien Dubois is the outcast of their school and always being bullied by the kids at school. He found peace when he was in the library, writing poetry, or playing his guitar and making music. A humble young man who lost his father at a young age, raised by his mom in the bayou, who worked hard so that she and Luc could survive. When his mother takes up with the Mayor of New Orleans and becomes the talk of the town due to a man who will go to any length to get what he wants. He is a man in power and uses that power to keep others under his thumb.

This is a story of life, love, loss, and tragedy. The characters are vulnerable, raw, and colorful. My favorite quote of all the books is from Cash in the final chapter, “A story of friendship and sacrifice and redemption and love. I don’t suppose most folks could ask for more than that.” This sums up the story completely for me. I’ve read Julie Ann Walker’s Black Knights Inc., series and loved them. I found this story to be so different from that series but loved it just as much. I give this story 5-stars and suggest you one-click this story and read it.

Review of A Woman Like Her (Disavowed Series #1) by Hannalore Jones @HiddenGemsBooks @HannaloreJones

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5 Stars

Seri is a lost woman. She’s alone in the world and hurting. The only way she can bury the hurt is with one-night stands, and booze. She lost both of her parents and has no one to turn to or watch her back. Now the US Government wants her help in bringing down a terrorist and is blind-sided by them to get her attention.

Sam Lucas is undercover and is assigned to Seri. Little does he know that this woman will break him, and he won’t have a chance against her. His friends and colleagues keep telling him to keep his wits about him, but what they don’t realize is that he never had a chance again Seri.

This story was full of suspense and tension. I loved it. The characters are strong and fun to read. Seri and Sam had a lot of chemistry. I give this story 5-stars and I look forward to the next book in the Disavowed Series: A Man Like Him. This was my first book by Hannalore Jones, but I am looking forward to reading more of her stories in the near future. If you are looking for a book with suspense, sassy women, and bada** spies, then you should one-click this book today and read it.

Release of – Sorrow’s Queen (Cavalieri Della Morte) by Ashleigh Giannoccaro and Murphy Wallace @mrsgiannoccaro @_murphywallace_ @EJBookPromos

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Title: Sorrow’s Queen
Series: Cavalieri Della Morte
Author: Ashleigh Giannoccaro + Murphy Wallace
Genre: Romance Suspense
Release: June 27, 2019
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Blurb:
Sorrow slips in quietly when no one is looking — just like I do.
It robs them of life and joy — just like me.
Sorrow is a killer in the night, murdering hearts and leaving destruction in its wake — and so am I.
I am Tristan Sorrow, I stole happiness, and now she is mine.
He came in the dead of night to steal me, to take me home. He was sent to rob me of my happiness and murder my hopes.
Creeping in slowly, he was an unexpected twist in my tale.
But he stole the wrong thing, he made me his Queen.
Tristan Sorrow stole my heart — and my life.
Every love story is written tragically in the blood of those who fell.

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⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars out of 5

Tristan “Sorrow” has a job to do, but he doesn’t have to be happy about where that job is. As long as he completes the job and doesn’t screw it up, he’ll be fine. No matter how much he tells himself this, his heart wont’ allow it. Sorrow hates New York and the fact that he has to pick up Sophia and take her back to New Orleans to her future husband doesn’t make him any happier to do this job.

Sophia “Queen” was promised to a Mafia leader by her parents so that they could climb the ladder of luxury. They promised Marcus King a man in his 50’s that he could marry Sophia when she turns eighteen and Arthur has been contacted to bring the girl to Marcus. Sophia was under the impression that her parents had made a different plan for her, because her father promised her that she would not be sent to Marcus.

This is the final book in the series. Such a tragic ending to this story, but a beautiful ending to the series. The Cavalieri Della Morte may be a group of lethal, dark, dangerous men, but they all learn that they have a heart and are able to care for others outside the brotherhood. The women that come into their lives are proof of it, but this story is also proof of it. The fact that Sophia “Queen” is accepted into their lives and that these men won’t let her leave them or the world because of her broken heart.

I give this story a 5-star review and highly recommend readers to one-click this book as well as the others in the Cavalieri Della Morte Series and read them. They are full of darkness, suspense, twists, and awesome characters.

Blog Tour and Review of Animal’s Reformation (Insurgents MC Series) by Chiah Wilder @chiah_wilder @EJBookPromos

Title: Animal’s Reformation
Series: Insurgents MC Series
Author: Chiah Wilder
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date:  June 18, 2019

Sometimes the last person you want to be with is the one you can’t be without.

A member of the Insurgents MC, Animal is a rough, free-loving biker. Hanging with his brothers, riding his customized Harley, and partying with the ladies are his idea of the ideal life.

Years ago, he made a stupid mistake with a woman he barely knew, but he pays the child support every month and sends cards and presents to his out-of-state daughter on her birthday and on holidays.

He doesn’t want a steady woman, and he certainly isn’t ready to settle down and have a family. Life is just too good now, and there are always so many women who want to come and play with this rugged biker.

Then one afternoon, the mother of his child struts into the clubhouse with his daughter in tow and tells him she’s done. She walks away, leaving Animal and Lucy staring at each other.

What’s he supposed to do? He knows about bikes and hard partying, not seven-year-old girls.

He has to change his ways, and his new hot next-door neighbor isn’t helping to keep his libido in check. The way her long dark hair swings just above her sweet behind has him thinking all kinds of nasty thoughts, but she doesn’t give him the time of day.

What’s up with that?

Olivia Mooney is very aware of her neighbor’s good looks and his finely chiseled body, but she doesn’t want to get involved. He doesn’t realize it, but she’s his daughter’s tutor at school, and she can’t get involved. She spends her nights thinking about him and chatting with an intriguing man on an after dark dating site.

Then a series of murders occur in the surrounding counties, and it looks like they are creeping closer to Pinewood Springs. At first the cops are stumped, but over time a pattern begins to emerge: the women all used an after dark dating site.

As fear and danger slink closer, Olivia is thrown into the arms of the sexy biker, forever changing their lives.

The Insurgents MC series are standalone romance novels. This is Animal’s story. This book contains violence, abuse, strong language, and steamy/graphic sexual scenes. It describes the life and actions of an outlaw motorcycle club. HEA. No cliffhangers.

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Amazon Review – “Loved it! Great story……drama and hot romance”

 

Chiah Wilder writes about rough, sexy men who know how to treat their women.

Always a lover of books, she began writing at a young age and continued through college with collections of short stories. Figuring she had to grow up and get a “real” job, her writing was placed on the back burner.

Her love of reading has always been center front in her life. Chiah’s love of bad boys both in and out of fiction has inspired her books. She loves an alpha male whose softer side is brought out by a passionate, spirited woman. In fiction there are no rules or boundaries, and fantasies can go as far as the characters want to take them. Steamy, romances with tough, sexy bad boys are her guilty pleasure along with brownies, cheddar cheese, and movie marathons. 


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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 out of 5 stars

Animal will face a few new challenges in his life. He will have to change things to meet these challenges. However, when a new neighbor, Olivia, moves in and needs his help, he’s more than willing to help her out, but he has to keep things neighborly and not revert to his old ways. He has Lucy to worry about now and he is determined to get her to trust him and believe that he won’t walk away from her.

Lucy and Olivia are becoming fast friends and Animal has no choice but to include Olivia when Lucy asks, not that he minds including Olivia.

I liked this story and the commitment and care that Animal shows Lucy is wonderful. For a young girl who was not always shown care by her own mother, it’s hard for her to change her way of thinking and to trust an outsider. Even though Animal is her father, he is still an outsider to her. Lucy will have to overcome some obstacles before she will fully trust her father, but with the patience and care that he shows, it will come eventually. Animal and Olivia are pretty much made for each other and their love story will develop once Olivia overcomes her past and demons.

If you like MC stories and enjoy reading about tough guys being brought to their knees by little girls and sexy women, then you should one-click this book and read it.

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Review of Dropzone by Stewart Giles @book_n_all @stewartgiles

One in a million odds and it happened to Brandon Stone. Not only a double malfunction, but two other deaths of people who were on the plane and were familiar with the Fulford Skydiving Club. Coincidence or bad luck for the club?

DC Whitton is reinstated after she killed a man on duty and has been called to the Fulford Skydiving Club to investigate a death of a skydiver. It will take the entire team plus the help of DC Harriet Taylor from Trottertown to get to the bottom of this case. DS Smith is back as well and doing his usual detective work. He won’t rest until the case is solved.

I really liked the twists and turns in this book. The characters are entertaining, interesting, and full of life. The suspense of who could have pulled this off will pull you in from the beginning and won’t let you go until the end of the book. The Detectives all work tirelessly to find the killer and they bounce their ideas off each other until something makes sense. The comments that the other detectives make towards Smith can be a bit mean at times, but Smith takes most of them with a grain of salt, unless it’s Whitton who makes the comment.

I enjoyed reading this book and give it a 5-star review. I like the DS Smith books and look forward to more of his stories, as well as the DC Harriet Taylor’s appearance in these books and her own stories. If you like crime, police procedural, detectives who work a little outside of the lines, then you should pick up this book with a one-click and read it.

Review of Violent Ends (White Monarch Book 2) by Jessica Hawkins #TuesdayBookBlog @GiveMeBooksPR and @jess_hawk

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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 shining stars out of 5

Wow! I really like the first book in this series Violent Delights, but I absolutely love Violent Ends! Cristiano de la Rosa is a sexy, secretive, dark man and I love him. Ms. Hawkins really knows how to write a cliff hanger too! Why do you leave me hanging like this?

Cristiano de la Rosa is a man who gets what he wants, and he wants Natalia Cruz. He didn’t know how much he wanted her until he had her. He just wishes he really had her. She is his wife, but she is resisting him at every turn. He is finding that he will go to the ends of the earth to gain her trust. The only problem is that his dealings before she became his wife will put them in danger and could get them as well as others killed. Will he be able to save her from the cartel that he has been trying to take down?

Natalia Cruz is still trying to figure out who her husband really is. She has seen sides of him that not many have. She is adamant that she will not condone harm to come to women or children, and she has her own thoughts of how Cristiano’s men will do make money, little does she know that the rumors she has heard are what Cristiano and his men want people to believe. Just as she is beginning to come around and think of Cristiano as her husband, all heck will break lose and her life will be in jeopardy as will Cristiano’s. What has happened to Max and Daniel?

This story was full of suspense, tension, and secrets. I got so angry at Natalia for the way she treated Cristiano. She was so closed minded, and Alejandro called her out on it. I hated to get to the end of the story because now I have to wait for the next book. I love Cristiano, Alejandro, and Natalia, but Natalia made me angry. I just wanted her to give in to Cristiano. Ms. Hawkins writing of this book as well as Violent Delights, was so well done. She drew me in from the first page and held me captive throughout the book. She kept me drawn in right to the end of the book. I give this book 5-shining stars and highly recommend readers who like cartel, mafia, romantic suspense, and stories with some angst to one-click this book today and read it and Violent Delights. It’s going to be a long wait for the next book, but I am so looking forward to it.

Review of Too Mean To Die: A Bad-Boy MC Romance (The Knuckleheads MC Book 8) by Simone Scarlet @simonescarlet

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⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 stars out of 5

After the job the Knuckleheads did in Mexico all of the original riders and their loved ones are in danger of being killed by a hit squad, all because of what they learned in Mexico while destroying The Gallardo brother’s operation. Coyle met his future wife while in Mexico and they now live on a horse boarding ranch in Washington and are expecting their first child. Their whole world can come crashing down in one night due to the work they did in Mexico a year prior.

I enjoy the stories of the Knuckleheads and this one did not disappoint. The women that align themselves with these men are just as strong and wicked as they are. They will fight right alongside them and fiercely protect what is theirs, even if they are pregnant.

The beginning of Coyle and Isabella’s story was intense, but their story of trying to battle the hit squad is awesome. Isabella’s brother in-law and Coyle are lethal and the towns people that stand with Coyle and Isabella are determined.

I enjoyed this story and Coyle and Isabella’s story. I give it 4.5-stars and recommend the Knucklehead MC books. The covers are sexy too!

Review of Devoted to You by S. S. Richards

 

Alyssa is hired as the Personal Assistant to a millionaire and CEO, Mr. Liam Adams, of D. E. Adams, the company he inherited from his father when his father decided to retire. Alyssa is a young woman who dresses conservatively and based on her wallet. She doesn’t realize her beauty, but her confidence and sexy presence draws the attention of Liam Adams before she even begins working for him.

Liam has a secret in his life and he’s afraid that if Alyssa finds out what it is, she’ll run away from him and not look back. This secret will also put her in danger. His father brought this situation into Liam’s life, and now he has to deal with it. There are only a few men that he lets in and trusts.

I give this story a 4-star review and recommend it to readers who enjoy stories of millionaires and women who work for them, and the secrets they have in their pasts that they have to overcome in order to find their HEA.