Our Holiday by Louise Candlish
Second houses mean holidays and long weekends of sun, sand and sea with friends. But when the locals start resenting these second-home owners and start #NJFA (not just for August) protests, things get out of hand. Instead of sipping rosé on the veranda, it’s all menacing graffiti painted on walls and throwing rotten tomatoes and luxury cars. And murder. HQ Publishers
Confessions of the Dead by James Patterson and JD Barker
The smallest towns hide the darkest secrets. Like the picture-perfect Hollows Bend. Crime rate – zero. Until the day the stranger – a mysterious teenage girl – shows up. And the trouble starts. Penguin Books
Out On A Limb by viral TikTok author Hannah Bonam-Young
Hannah Bonam-Young writes romances featuring a cast of diverse, disabled, marginalised and LGBTQIA+ people. In this novel, she writes of Win – who, like Hannah, has a less-developed right hand, one that has created challenges, for both the author and her protagonist. It’s a romance … a one night stand, an unexpected pregnancy, a parenting journey. Bedford Square Publishers
The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden
Millie used to be a housemaid. But she now lives in a lovely house of her own, with her husband and children, in a quiet cul-de-sac. When they’re invited to their new neighbours for dinner, they arrive to have the door opened by a maid. Millie knows what it’s like to be in her shoes. But she doesn’t know why she’s given a cold stare. Or why she’s warned to ‘be careful of your neighbours’. Or why there are shadowy figures watching her. A thrill a minute! Poisoned Press Publishers
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
‘I tattooed a name on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.’ This first book in The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy is set in 1942, when Lale Sokolov arrives in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and is given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival. One of these is a young girl, Gita. And this is a courageous, unforgettable and life-affirming love story … a work of fiction based on the first hand testimony of an Auschwitz survivor. Zaffre
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