Swanson, Peter (2019) Before She Knew Him. W. Morrow. Hen and Lloyd are newly settled in the suburbs of Boston. When their next door neighbours, Mira and Matthew, invite them to dinner Hen spies a disturbingly familiar object in Matthew's office. It looks like something connected to an unresolved killing. The more Hen observes Matthew… Continue reading April Picks
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Barton, Fiona (2019) The Suspect. Bantam. Two eighteen year old girls go missing in Thailand, then turn up dead after a suspicious fire. Their families are frantic. Newspaper reporter Kate Waters (The Widow, and The Child) is the first with the exclusive but as the mystery unfolds her own son is thrust into the spotlight. In a… Continue reading March Picks
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Plomin, Robert (2018) Blue print: How DNA makes us who we are. Allen Lane. All aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA. Plomin launches a rethink from a psychological perspective on who we are, arguing from the stance that nurture, whether at home, school or in our broader environment, is not… Continue reading February Picks
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Norton, Graham (2018) A Keeper. Hodder & Stoughton. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother Patricia's death to sell her childhood home. While searching through her mother's belongings she finds some letters than send her off to solve the 40 year mystery of her paternity, leading to a little stone house in the shadows of… Continue reading January Picks
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