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#BookReview: Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear

My thoughts about Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear

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From the beloved and internationally bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies comes the second novel featuring DC Cat Kinsella—an investigator “on par with Susie Steiner’s and Tana French’s female detectives” (Kirkus, starred review).

After a brief stint in the Mayor’s Office, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is back at the London Metropolitan Police, wisecracking with her partner Luigi Parnell and trying to avoid the wrath of the boss, DI Kate Steele.

But for Cat and Parnell, it’s serious business when a young Australian woman turns up dead after a party thrown by her new boss. The initial investigation of Naomi Lockhart's murder points to Joseph Madden, the owner of a coffee shop around the corner from police headquarters. Madden insists he’s innocent, that he was home with his wife Rachel at the time of the murder. When police question her, Rachel contradicts his alibi, swearing that she was home alone.

While the team builds its case against Joseph, Cat is tasked with getting to the heart of the Maddens’ marriage. Cat knows that one of them is lying—but the question of which one, and why, is far more complicated than she could have expected. As she tries to balance the demands of the investigation with a budding romance and unresolved family drama, Cat has to decide how far she’ll go to keep her own past mistakes buried.

With her trademark wit and brilliant plotting, Caz Frear ratchets up the tension and keeps you guessing as she explores the things we keep from our loved ones—and the secrets we’d kill to keep safe in the dark.

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Blog Audit Challenge 2020

Welcome back for the second month of challenges for the Blog Audit Challenge 2020!

I hope you did well with the January challenges, and linked up your progress reports in the January Link Up.

Each month we'll concentrate on a different area of our blogs.

The Challenges:

January- Plan of action

February- Information pages

March- The trimmings

April- Design

May- SEO

June- Links

July- Quality content

August- Content gaps

September- Developing readership

October- Get social

November- Press and collaborations

December- Know your stats

Monthly link ups

In order to keep us all on track, and give us a way to see each others progress, I'll be hosting link ups on the first Saturday of every month where participants can share their links and discuss their progress.

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February Challenges

Our focus for February is on information pages. Did you know that About pages are statistically one of the most viewed pages on any website?

The February challenges will make sure our About pages shine, and make sure our blogs have all the right legal disclaimers. We'll also be working on our resource pages to make sure we're leveraging them to their full potential.

The February challenges:

1. About page

An About page, like any other page on your website, should be optimized to drive engagement, enhance your brand, and increase conversions.

Your About page should be as much about the reader as it is about you. Along the way the reader should be getting value. My About page isn't bad but it could be better. I'm definitely going to be looking into ways I can make it more valuable for my readers.

Work on your About page, making sure it offers value to the reader and includes at least one Call To Action (CTA).

2. Legal disclaimers

It's important to make sure your blog contains all relevant legal disclaimers, and your personal policies. You can see my legal disclaimers page here.

I'll be doing some research to make sure my legal information is up to date.

Make sure your blog has an up to date legal disclaimers page.

Not sure how to write a legal disclaimer? Check out this blog post at https://raelyntan.com/write-blog-disclaimer/, or this one at https://thesavvycouple.com/blogging-laws/ for some pointers.

3. Resources

Having a page for resources on your blog can be a great way to get readers coming back again and again.

I definitely need to work on updating my resources page. Outdated materials need to be removed, the overall presentation and organisation needs to be improved, and it needs to have a clearer purpose.

Remember: Every page on your website "should be optimized to drive engagement, enhance your brand, and increase conversions". That includes your resources page.

How does your resources page enhance your brand? Is it optimized to drive engagement? What do you hope to achieve with your resources page? How can you improve it to help you reach those goals?

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Free downloads: You can grab copies of all the extra materials for the Blog Audit Challenge 2020 for free here.

Save the Date!

The monthly link up post for sharing your February progress will be on 28th February. The March challenges will be posted on 2nd March.

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Don't forget to promote your participation in the Blog Audit Challenge 2020 by using the following graphic in any blog posts you do connected with the challenge along with a link back to this site.

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Blog Audit Challenge 2020

February Link Up

My thoughts about Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear

Discussing Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear

My thoughts about the audiobook A Rare Book of Cunning Device by Ben Aaronovitch

My thoughts about Mayan Mendacity by L.J.M Owen

My thoughts about Hidden Pearl by JE Laufer

Discussing Hidden Pearl by JE Laufer

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