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Escape to the Northern Lights by Carrie Walker #Review

  I am happy to feature a sparkling wintry read,  Carrie Walker's, Escape to the Northern Lights . It is published today by Aria on November 6th.   Packed with humour, romance and a love affair with nature, Escape to the Northern Lights is a story of transformation, second chances and finding home in the most unexpected places. High-powered lawyer Sara thought she had life figured out – until her whirlwind marriage ends in divorce, her dream promotion slips away and a burnout diagnosis forces her to take a break. Desperate for a reset, she books a four-week spa retreat in Norway, imagining a luxurious escape. Instead, she finds herself in the rugged wilderness of Firefly Forest, knee-deep in reindeer droppings and stuck with an annoyingly bohemian – and ridiculously attractive – outdoorsman, Henrik. What starts as a nightmare turns into a journey of self-discovery as Sara swaps designer heels for bare feet, legal briefs for tree-hugging, and fleeting fling...

Night Shift by Robin Triggs ** Blog Tour Review**

Night Shift by Robin Triggs is published by Flame Tree Press on 1st November 2018.
 
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
 

Antarctica. A mining base at the edge of the world.

Anders Nordvelt, last-minute replacement as head of security, has no time to integrate himself into the crew before an act of sabotage threatens the project. He must untangle a complex web of relationships from his position as prime suspect.

Then a body is found in the ice. Systems fail as the long night falls. Now Anders must do more than find a murderer: he must find a way to survive.

Will anyone endure the night shift, or will ice and frozen corpses be all that remains?

My Thoughts

It took me a while to acclimatise myself to who was who and where we were in the story but once I had sorted out who I thought everyone was, I really settled into the novel. Of course, that is when the author started to spring his surprises and I began to realise that I wasn't sure who could be trusted and what was going to happen next. The writer brilliantly wrong- foots the reader and it is only at the end that you realise that the perpetrator has been hiding in plain sight. 

    The setting and environment are intrinsic to the story and I loved the way the characters were all trapped together by the climate. Just as in an Agatha Christie crime novel, the suspects are all gathered together, apart from the rest of the world. In this case, they are all isolated at the foot of the world for the longest period of darkness, the Night Shift. I found the writer's style of writing to be fluid and easy to read, never quite knowing where he was going to take me. 

In short: Crime meets science fiction- I loved it!
  
About the Author


Writer of speculative fiction and extremely poor cricketer.

 #Proofreaderand #SfEP member.
Debut novel NIGHT SHIFT out Nov 2018.
He/Him/The Monstrosity


You can follow Robin here: Website  |   Twitter

Book links: Amazon UK 

Thanks to Robin Triggs, Flame Tree Press and Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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Comments

  1. So pleased you loved it! Thanks for the blog tour support x

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