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Death at the Village Christmas Fair by Debbie Young #Review #CotswoldCuriosityShopMysteriesBook3 #PublicationDay

  I am delighted to feature this cozy crime novel, Death at the Village Christmas Fair  by Debbie Young . It is published today by Boldwood Books on August 16th.   It’s been a busy year for Alice Carroll, with her Curiosity Shop opening for business, and not one but two murders shaking things up in her quaint Cotswold village. She’s looking forward to her first countryside Christmas, complete with traditional Christmas Fair and Santa Run. But her hopes for innocent festive fun are thwarted when one of the Santa Runners steals something from her mum's knitting stall. His festive outfit makes him hard to spot, until he's found fatally injured outside the village hall with the stolen item. Despite what the police say, Alice suspects there's more to his murder than meets the eye. She's determined to solve the mystery - including why, once more, a stranger thought something from her Curiosity Shop was worth killing for. With the help of her charming neighbour Rob...

Artemis by Andy Weir ** Review**

I am delighted to be taking part in the blog tour for Andy Weir's science fiction novel, Artemis.

Welcome to Artemis 
The first city of the Moon
Population: 2,000
 

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. 

Life in the lunar city of Artemis is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz is offered a score too lucrative to turn down – if she can plan the perfect crime – and survive it…


And in a city on the moon, there’s only one rule for criminals: don’t get caught.

My Thoughts

The most interesting aspect of Artemis has to be the central character of Jazz Bashara. You don't find out her back story at first, but soon discover that she has a great instinct to survive and a quick intellect which sets her apart. She is motivated to fight her way out of poverty initially and seems to be able to forge a path for herself on the inhospitable Moon where she has lived for most of her life. I enjoyed her one- liners although I was never fully sure what she was going to do next!

    Full of detail on the science that allows life to occur on the Moon, the novel gives you one vision of how society could have evolved there. Outside the morals and ethics of life on Earth, you get a picture of life in the shadows. I found some of the detail hard -going but it did underline how inhospitable the environment is. The story starts fairly slowly but as events get underway, the tension is ramped up as you go from cliffhanger to cliffhanger.

In short: Tension and mayhem on the lunar landscape.

  
About the Author

ANDY WEIR built a career as a software engineer until the success of The Martian allowed him to write full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and devoted hobbyist of subjects such as orbital mechanics and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has SOLD 5 MILLION COPIES in the English language. It went on to become a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Film rights to Artemis have already been sold to 20th Century Fox.
You can follow Andy here: Website  Twitter 
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Book links: Amazon UK

Thanks to Andy Weir, Ebury Publishing and Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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  1. Thanks so much for this great Blog Tour support xx

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