The Gauguin Connection - Estelle Ryan

Again I now know why I love detective and mystery novels along with a little bit of a twist :) This is one in a series of 5 now I think!! and I am currently in the process of reading the rest as it is something that I have never ever read before ... and that means that it is a feat of ingenuity!!

The Gauguin Connection - Estelle Ryan

Genevieve Leonard is a body language analysts who looks into art fraud for an art insurance company! She has a form of high functioning autism and spent most of her childhood trying to be 'normal' which is why she now studies body language! She is one of the leading experts in her field of study but she enjoys her quiet and ordered life!

Until Colin drops into her life by climbing through the roof of her house ... and then nothing is the same again!

Eventually after a lot of arguing between French companies and lots of fake paintings and forgeries and investigation they find out what is happening with these paintings!

It is veryyy good!! And as I say there are more in the series also to get your teeth into!! SO it is very good and worth a read for definite!!

I am reading the next ones now :)

See you soon!
Thanks for reading :)
Leanne :) x

Want to Play? - P J Tracey

Now you have to know something about me .... the one thing that I love along with historical fiction is crime fiction! Any form of crime fiction and I am in my element! The scarier the better which is why I gravitate towards James Patterson, Karin Slaughter and Karen Rose. Now if you have never read anything from any of these authors I highly suggest that you do as they will introduce you to the fabulous world of the crime novel!!! SO I thought I would have a break from everything and lose myself in a crime novel and I chose ...

Want to Play? - P J Tracey

Now I have to admit that I did quite struggle with this book and you do have to preserve and if you do you will finally reap the rewards!

So basically a team of cyber geniuses come up with a computer game that they believe will make them a hell of a lot of money! This is based on a serial killer ... you are following a serial killer and trying to solve the crime! They release some of the game play onto a website in order to drum up some excitement for their game and convince people to play the game!

However unfortunately as usual in a novel like this you find that there is someone out there that is playing the game for real ... the first few murders that happen in the game happen in real life for these people. They realise and go to the police for help! And in this time the police do background checks into the people involved in the creation of the game and they cannot find anything!!!

Then another murder happens miles away from all of these and what seems to be completely unrelated but finally and this is why you have to persevere with this book everything does finally come together!! And the ending ... just read it and find out for yourself :)

The book isn't written in an amazing way buttttt it is very good in the end and you will enjoy and again you can then progess onto more as there are more of these books in a series now! However I don't think that I will be reading another one for a while!!

Thanks for reading! And take a look at my other posts!!
See you soon!!
Leanne :) x

Little Lies - Lianne Moriarty

SOoo I haven't posted in a longgg time but I have still been reading away every time I could get chance!!! Everything has been so hectic!! My beauty business has taken off and third year of uni has come with a vengeance! So finding time to read has been massively important to me as  reading is one way that I actually relax ..... Now to the book in question!!

After reading The Husband's Secret by Lianne Moriarty I can well and truly say I fell in love with her and would have gladly devoured anything by her again ... so I bought ....

Little Lies - Lianne Moriarty

The fact that Lianne and myself share a name means nothing, except she's obviously awesome! And to be honest it can be said that I had inflated notions of her writing after reading The Husbands Secret as that was just AMAZING. And lets just say I was not disappointed!

You start this book at the end and work your way back to it to find out what actually happened! The book starts at the end as someone is dead! You don't know who is dead or whether  they died naturally or were killed or anything!! Anything could have happened for all we know!!!! This Is such a good technique for writing because now I have to carry on reading in order to find out what happened!!

SO Jane moves to a quite suburban town with her son ... it isn't long before she is taken under the wings of Madeline and Celeste ... all the women are at crossroads in their lives and need help from each other. The local school where all the womens children go is a hive of drama and activity which results in Jane, Celeste and Madeline being pushed further and further to the outskirts of what is acceptable at the school!

Many things happen in between but everything is leading up to the big event and this happens at a Audrey Hepburn and Elvis party organised by the PTA!

The Writing of this book is amazing ... at the end of every chapter you are brought back ot the police questioning the people at and surrounding the party, which gives an extra dimension to the book itself and the narrative.

I literally cannot recommend this book enough and the rest of Moriarty's writing ... for anyone who enjoys a drama, chick lit or a bit of mystery and twists! Lots of twists!!!

Have a look at it as I know that you will be as hooked as I was and read it all in one sitting just like I did!!!


Have fun :)
See you soon!!!
Leanne :) x