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Book length - 272 pages Publisher - Orenda Books Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Anne from randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com for the opportunity to take part in this blog tour and for providing me with an e-copy of this book for review. ABOUT THIS BOOK Tonight is the night for secrets… Pregnant Victoria Valbon was brutally murdered in an alley three weeks ago – and her killer hasn’t been caught. Tonight is Stella McKeever’s final radio show. The theme is secrets. You tell her yours, and she’ll share some of hers. Stella might tell you about Tom, a boyfriend who likes to play games, about the mother who abandoned her, now back after twelve years. She might tell you about the perfume bottle with the star-shaped stopper, or about her father … What Stella really wants to know is more about the mysterious man calling the station … who says he knows who killed Victoria, and has proof. Tonight is the night for secrets, and Stella wants to know everything… MY REVIEW CALL ME STAR GIRL by Louise Beech is this author's first foray into the thriller genre and I can safely say that it will never be the same again (in a good way!!). It is the final night of Stella McKeever's radio show and she is determined to go out with a bang and what better theme to get the blood thumping than secrets? Secrets have a power like no other - the power to make you smile, cry, or tremble with fear - and as a particular caller claims he knows a very dark secret, the identity of a killer no less, Stella wants to know it all. Or does she? Louise Beech's writing has always had the power to entrance me and CALL ME STAR GIRL is no different. The pace, the use of past and present to portray the narrative, and the intense isolation of the character in the setting of the radio booth at night, all combined to make my pulse speed up and keep my eyes glued to the page. The character of Stella is superbly executed and as I learned more about her and her past, I felt what she felt and couldn't put this book down until I knew what the heck was going on and how Stella was connected. CALL ME STAR GIRL by Louise Beech is an exceptional story written by an exceptional author, and I cannot wait for Louise's next book. No, really, when will it be?!?! AUTHOR BIO Louise Beech knew from being small that she wanted to write. She was a columnist for the Hull Daily Mail for ten years, and part of the Mums' Army on BBC Radio Humberside for three. Her short fiction has won the Glass Woman Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose, and the Aesthetica Creative Works competition, as well as shortlisting for the Bridport Prize twice and being published in a variety of UK magazines. Her debut novel was a Guardian Readers' Pick for 2015 and Maria in the Moon was a Must-Read in Prima, Red and the Sunday Express. Louise lives with her husband and children on the outskirts of Hull – the UK’s 2017 City of Culture – and loves her job as a Front of House Usher at Hull Truck Theatre, where her first play was performed in 2012. For more information: Website - louisebeech.co.uk Twitter - twitter.com/LouiseWriter Instagram - www.instagram.com/louisebeech13/ DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE OTHER STOPS ALONG THE WAY!!
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Anne Cater
12/4/2019 12:11:00 pm
Huge thanks for the blog tour support Linda x
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