Book Review: The Slap by Karen J Mossman

 

Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: The Slap

Subtitle: Cassidy Newbold Stories

Author: Karen J Mossman

Genre: Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series? N/A

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55980701-the-slap

 

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

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Short Summary of the book:

This is another book in the Cassidy Newbold series. The book is a short read and we meet the twins Cassidy and Seb. Cassidy often helps Seb to solve mysteries in his job as DI. This time her help is requested to find out what happened to two friends. Will she get to them in time?

What I liked about the book:

This is a great series and I love the stories written about this clairvoyant girl/woman.

What I didn’t like about the book:

The book was finished too quickly. Where is the next story?

My favourite bits in the book:

I loved the book in its entirety.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the book in its entirety, if only there was a next story.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

The author has written more books in this series and several other books and short stories.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This series is interesting as it contains a crime-fighting duo in the form of twins Cassidy and Seb. It’s unique in itself.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Yes
Adult	Yes

 

If you like mystery with a bit of the paranormal, this book may be the book for you.

Book Description by Author:

Cassidy Newbold is a clairvoyant and also an Official Prison Visitor. This enables her to help her brother, a detective to crack his cases.

 

Shaking the hand of prisoner Ronnie Gunner, suspected of abducting two girls, Cassie sees everything. This horrific case will shake her to the core. With the lives of two young girls at stake, she must force herself to enter the farmhouse where Gunner kept them captive.

 

Can she locate them before it is too late?

About the Author:

Karen J Mossman comes from a family of journalists with her grandfather and uncle having been newspaper editors. Further back a 2x grandfather wrote for his local paper and also published a book based on those articles. Karen is the only one to go into fiction.

 

Karen is also an avid blogger and book reviewer, "It's especially important to me to have feedback from my readers, so please leave a review when you have read one of my books."

 

Karen lives on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey off the North Wales coast with her husband and two dogs. She has two grown-up children, who were both born on the same day, two years apart.

 

Visit her website to find out more about her books with excerpts, readings, and image teasers.

 

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