Weekend reads
These two books are filled with twists, suspense and will keep you on the the edge of your seat.
The Heights
Cleverly written as a novel within a novel, Louise Candlish’s The Heights begins with a high-profile creative writing tutor offering advice to his class. The setting, he says, is a nice choice. ‘A good, safe entry point for any narrative’. So the opening line, then, of a story one of the class hands in should prove his point. ‘ Kieran Watts has been dead for over two years when I see him standing on the roof of a building in Shad Thames.’ An opening line that certainly got his, and our, attention. And from there … it’s just twists and turns and psychological suspense. Simon and Schuster.
Over My Dead Body
Four cases. Four killers. Moving from art collections, forgery and theft in Geneva to a luxury liner en route to New York to London, where a new unit has been put together to solve cold cases, Jeffrey Archer’s Over My Dead Body sees Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan work together in the kinds of rollercoaster thriller Archer does so well. HarperCollins Publishers.
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