Book Club: Thrillers to keep you awake at night
Two thrilling reads from Exclusive Books to get the adrenalin pumping.
When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham
Despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster, Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police. Called to the scene of a domestic assault, she rescues a young woman, Tempe Brown, the girlfriend of a decorated detective.
The incident is hushed up, but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy with powerful friends. Determined to protect each other, the two women strike up a tentative friendship. Tempe is thoughtful and sweet and makes herself indispensable to Phil, but sinister things keep happening and something is not quite right about the stories Tempe tells.
When a journalist with links to Phil’s father and to the detective is found floating in the Thames, Phil does not know where to turn, who to blame or who she can trust.
False Witness by Karin Slaughter
Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people. But one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, devastated by violence.
Years later, Leigh has pushed that night from her mind and become a successful lawyer. But when she is forced to take on a new client against her will, her world begins to spiral out of control. Because the client knows the truth about what happened twenty-three years ago. He knows what Leigh and Callie did. And unless they stop him, he is going to tear their lives apart. Just because you didn’t see the witness, doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.
* These both available from exclusivebooks.co.za
