Blood Oranges, My Love by F.E Birch

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @heatherjfitt for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Blood Orange, My love has a great front title and cover. It grabs my attention straight the way. Also made me want to eat the orange due to it looking juicier and vibrant . This is book 3 in the series, and you can read as a standalone as I did. The short stories are written well and hooked me from the first paragraph. I love the F. E Birch is writing it is captivating, and you can visual every word in your mind. I like how all the short stories made me feel different emotions while reading them. Furthermore, I like there is edge of darkness flowing through the short stories and each one where fabulous reads. I Will be reading more from F.E Birch in the future. Strongly recommend if you enjoy crime books. 5 stars Blood Oranges, My Love is the final anthology of dark crime reads from F.E. Birch. Most of the stories have been placed in competitions or previously published and span from 2006 – present. They are quick reads and contain criminally insane themes involving family drama, fraud, childhood memories and trauma, bereavement, grooming, alcoholism, spontaneous combustion, ghost stories, disability, and a bit of vengeful murder. There’s also a handful of lighter, kinder, more upbeat reads, should you wish to find them. If you like your stories dark, devious and deliciously criminal, then you’ll love them! The Author F.E. Birch is an ex-cop and an award winning businesswoman from the North-East of England. She is a prolific short story writer with a trail of pseudonyms and publications behind her. Bowl of Cherries, her first short story collection, was published in 2020, the second, Rather Like Marzipan in 2023. Blood Oranges, My Love, 2024 completes the trilogy of crime story reads. She won the first Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect competition in 2012 with the premise of her debut novel, She’s Not There, published first by Red Dragon Publishing then republished in January 2024 by Wire Books with the sequel, Last Train Through Pitlochry coming in September 2024. Her standalone crime thriller novel, Maman, is a suspense domestic noir, published by Wire Books, April 2024. The sequel F.E. is writer with a bendy EDS body, GSOH and a tad clumsy, she wears many hats and loves wigs. Her friends call her Effie. With a penchant for dark, deep and the disturbing, her crimes are rarely cosy.

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