Fill your Kindle for summer!

To celebrate the onset of summer – and I’m convinced it’s going to be a fantastic one – I have reduced all my ebooks to 99 pence until the end of summer. As I have a grasshopper mind, there’s a selection of genres to choose from – or download them all and just go with the flow.
Circles of Confusion and Forever Night: Circles of Confusion II follow the fortunes of Jilly Graham, a young woman struggling to make her way in life against apparently insurmountable odds. When she meets Tina, a sex worker, and her dysfunctional family, Jilly makes choices which have disastrous consequences. But be warned, both books are quite dark and gritty.
If you fancy something a little lighter, then have a look at Albert’s Garden, a Binky Earle Cosy Mystery. Binky and her faithful Phoebe-cat set off to prove the innocence of the ladies of her knitting circle when it looks like one of them might be guilty of murder. Binky might be old and irritable but she’s nobody’s fool and, even though she uncovers unwelcome secrets in her village, she won’t stop until she gets to the bottom of the mystery.

For something entirely different, Ashes on the Tongue and The Stain of Silence are set in 1950s Northern Ireland and are centred round Fen Crozier, a young Protestant girl who discovers she has Roman Catholic relatives. As she discovers more about her family’s history, she is drawn into a violent struggle with not enough experience to deal with the horrific events that surround her.
Last, but not by any means least, The Lives and Deaths of Max de Pauley is a contemporary novel, set in the world of drag queens, spanning over fifty years as police investigate a body found in a water-filled grave. As they delve ever deeper into the case, a history of betrayal and murder, stretching over many decades, is revealed. None of the people interviewed are entirely honest and the ending, when it comes, will surprise you. Honest!