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  Today I am delighted to be featuring this gorgeous festive romance, the first in the new Christmas Escapes series.  Ch ristmas on Fifth Avenue  by  Julie Caplin  was published on October 23rd by One More Chapter .  . Welcome to New York, where the Christmas lights dazzle, the snow is falling and love is just around the corner… Evie Green's Christmas dream turns into a nightmare when a viral video makes her the laughing stock of the internet. But then a 5 star hotel sees a PR opportunity and invites her to New York for a Christmas she’ll remember forever. Enter Noah Sanderson, a disgraced soccer star seeking anonymity. Forced to fake a festive romance for the cameras, sparks fly – but not the twinkling Christmas kind! As Fifth Avenue sparkles in all its holiday glory, can The City that Never Sleeps show these two frosted hearts that, maybe, the best love stories are the ones you never see coming. Don't miss this cozy Christmas spin off series f...

Rough and Deadly by Paula Williams #Review


Welcome to a Much Winchmoor Mystery, Rough and Deadly by Paula Williams. 

Everyone knows Abe Compton’s Headbender cider is as rough as a cider can get. But is it deadly?

When self-styled ‘lady of the manor’, Margot Duckett-Trimble, announces she wouldn’t be seen dead drinking the stuff, who could have foreseen that, only a few days later, she’d be found, face down, in a vat of it?

Kat Latcham’s no stranger to murder. Indeed, the once ‘sleepy’ Somerset village of Much Winchmoor is fast gaining a reputation as the murder capital of the West Country and is ‘as sleepy as a kid on Christmas Eve’ when it’s discovered there’s a murderer running loose in the community again.

Kat has known Abe all her life, and she is sure that, although he had motive, he didn’t kill Margot. But as she investigates, the murderer strikes again. And the closer Kat gets to finding out who the real killer is, the closer to danger she becomes.

This second Much Winchmoor mystery is once again spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance – plus a cast of colourful characters, including a manic little dog called Prescott whose bite is definitely worse than his bark.


My Thoughts

 This novel has got an entertaining tone running throughout it and some witty parts which makes it a really enjoyable read. I particularly enjoyed the cast of characters who all had their own idiosyncrasies and who added to the general colour of the story. Much Winchmoor seems like a singular place to find yourself.

    The main attraction has to be Kat who has a laconic wit and some very human traits. She really makes you laugh with her asides. Thoroughly likeable, you are automatically on her side from the start. I would have liked Will to figure in the story a little more but hopefully he will appear more in subsequent Much Winchmoor books. This has a cozy crime vibe and the Somerset countryside provides the perfect backdrop.

In short: Murder mystery with a dash of romance- what's not to like?

About the Author



Paula Williams is living her dream. She’s written all her life – her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it’s only in recent years that she discovered to her surprise that people with better judgement than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her for it.

Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in her home in Somerset, where she lives with her husband and a handsome but not always obedient rescue Dalmatian called Duke. She started out writing fiction for women’s magazines (and still does) but has recently branched out into longer fiction. She also writes a monthly column, Ideas Store, for the writers’ magazines, Writers’ Forum.

But, as with the best of dreams, she worries that one day she’s going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into reading ‘the play what she wrote’.

You can follow Paula here: Facebook  |  Blog   |  Twitter @paulawilliams44  |  Website  

Book links: Amazon UK

Thanks to Paula Williams and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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