Jess Armstrong

Dec 9, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Sharon Short |Jess Armstrong |Doreen Sheridan |Celeste Connally

The mystery genre comes with an intrinsic promise of twists, turns, mayhem—a literary roller coaster ride! Anyone can show up at any time. Anything can happen. But what if all the characters in a mystery or suspense novel are confined to one specific place? Unable to leave to find help or gather information… and no hope of anyone coming with help or resources.

Dec 7, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Jess Armstrong

Although hyped as a cosy the secret at the core of this novel is obscene, and presented as a kind of ghost to haunt a party held in a Scottish hotel in the nineteen twenties. This was a period when society was in a state of flux after the horrors of the First World War. Many people were grieving, desperate to be in contact with their loved ones again. And there were others, exploiting that grief.

Dec 5, 2024 | crimereads.com | Jess Armstrong

Looking around a bookshop today one can’t help but notice that gothic books are having a moment, and have been for a few years now. Romance, lit fic, horror, cozy fantasy, category mysteries (like my own)—there’s not a genre you can point to where you can’t find examples of gothic influences incorporated. Though for those of us who grew up huddled under a blanket, way past our bedtimes, flashlight in hand reading these books—it should be no surprise that they’re having such a grand resurgence.

Nov 28, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Jess Armstrong |Robin Cook |Alex Segura |Brett Battles

The book is in stores on Tuesday, December 3rd from Minotaur. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4g3wUdtAfter the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She’s always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her.

Dec 16, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Jess Armstrong

When Ruby Vaughn’s boss asks her to deliver a mysterious trunk of rare books to a man in Cornwall, she has no idea she’ll be thrust into a complex --- and possibly supernatural --- mystery. At first, the lively and unconventional Ruby is reluctant to make the trip on behalf of the kindly Mr. Owen. She has a violent hangover and would much rather relax at her comfortable home in Essex (where she’s recently installed a newfangled bathing pool) than traipse about the Cornish countryside.