What Miss T Read

  Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. When I read the synopsis for this book I was so excited to be part of The Write Reads blog tour for it. It's a Cinderella story, poor unfortunate girl gets rich, but with twists and puzzles galore and I absolutely devoured it.  Avery Grambs is the average teenager trying to survive, but when she's told that she has inherited a huge fortune from billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, her life is thrown into disarray: she's never heard of Tobias Hawthorne for a start; he has four very entitled grandsons who ar

  You fancy a book about crime-solving vampires I hear you cry? Well Josie Jaffrey has come up trumps with book her brand new Seekers series. I will admit that when I first read the blurb I wasn't sure how such different topics that were completely unrelated could ever combine successfully; however, I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly I was sucked in and enjoyed the blend of genres.  The story follows Jack, our central crime-fighter. Having been a vampire for 20 years she is part of the Seekers, an Oxford based group of vampires (or Silver as they are called in the book) who are employed to stop humans finding out about their kind. They roam the streets amongst humans, acting in the same way as police officers, trying to protect their existence.  When a man is thrown from the top of a building, completely drained of blood and in full public sight it's undoubtedly the work of a Silver and it's up to Jack and her Seeker friends to try and solve the mystery before the hu

After the excitement of his adventures on the Highland Falcon Thief, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. So when his Uncle Nat invites him aboard the California Comet, the iconic three day train journey from Chicago to San Francisco, he leaps at the chance to travel. But when the daughter of billionaire entrepreneur August Reza goes missing en route, Hal finds himself with another mystery to solve. Can he uncover the kidnapper before the journey's end? Kidnap on the California Comet is the second instalment of the Adventures on Trains series written by the wonderful M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. The first book, The Highland Falcon Thief  was a delightful mystery involving a jewel thief (read my review here ) and introduced us to Hal, our main train sleuth and his transport-loving-journalist-uncle Nat. I absolutely loved The Highland Falcon Thief and as with all series was apprehensive that this wouldn't be as great but the du