New arrivals
Tell Me Where You Are by Moira Forsyth (paperback, courtesy of Sandstone Press and Ruth Killick Publicity)
Frances spent thirteen years not wanting to hear her sister’s name.
The last thing Frances wants is a phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her sister thirteen years ago. But Susan has disappeared, abandoning Alec and her daughter Kate, a surly teenager with an explosive secret. Reluctantly, Frances is drawn into her sister’s turbulent life.
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The Playground Murders (The Detective’s Daughter #7) by Lesley Thomson (hardcover, advance review copy courtesy of Head of Zeus)
Wormwood Scrubs playground, 1980. The wind blows across the common, and the girl in her shorts shivers. The playground is isolated, timeless. Far from the prying eyes of grown-ups, she and her friends can play make-believe here. The looming slide is a mountain; the upturned log a pirate ship. But six-year-old Sarah Ferris does not know that in two days’ time, she will be dead: a victim of jealousy, betrayal, and her own innocence.
Hammersmith, 2019. Cleaner Stella Darnell loves rooting into shadowy places and restoring order. She’ll clear your attic, polish your kitchen and scrub your bath – but she also investigates cold cases. Stella can spend hours sifting through forgotten evidence looking for shreds of evidence the police might have missed. So when a woman is found dead, and the killer is linked to the Sarah Ferris murder, Stella is the woman for the case. But dredging up the past can be dangerous. Especially if the playground killer is back.
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (audiobook)
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2019)
De Bohun’s Destiny (The Meonbridge Chronicles #3) by Carolyn Hughes (eARC, courtesy of Rachel’s Random Resources
How can you uphold a lie when you know it could destroy your family?
Margaret, Lady de Bohun, is horrified when her husband lies about their grandson Dickon’s entitlement to inherit Meonbridge. Margaret knows that Richard lied for the very best of reasons – to safeguard his family and its future – but lying is a sin, and an assured road to ruin. Yet Margaret has no option but to perpetuate her husband’s falsehood…
Margaret’s companion, Matilda Fletcher, decides that the truth about young Dickon’s birth really must be told, if only to Thorkell Boune, the man she’s set her heart on winning. But Matilda’s “honesty” serves only her own interests, and she is oblivious to the potential for disaster.
Thorkell doesn’t scruple to pursue exactly what he wants, by whatever means are necessary, no matter who or what gets in his way…
Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, trans. by Sondra Silverston (paperback)
If being old meant making up things so you wouldn’t be alone, then it really wasn’t very different from being seventeen.
Nofar is just an average teenage girl – so average, she’s almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. One afternoon, a terrible lie slips from her tongue. And suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and the boy upstairs – the only one who knows the truth.
Then Nofar meets Raymonde, an elderly woman whose best friend has just died. Raymonde keeps her friend alive the only way she knows how – by inhabiting her stories. But soon, Raymonde’s lies take on a life of their own.
A heart-stopping novel about deception and its consequences, Liar brilliantly explores how far a lie can travel – and how much we are willing to believe.
On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Tuesday – I published my review of The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby as part of the blog tour. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Things That Make Me Pick Up A Book.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.
Thursday – I published my review of Sunwise by Helen Steadman, the sequel to Widdershins as part of the blog tour. I also picked my five favourite books I read in March.
Friday – I shared my review of historical fiction novel Josephine’s Daughter by A.B. Michaels, the fifth book in the author’s ‘The Golden’ City series.
Saturday – I took part in the blog tour for historical mystery, Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Cursed Serpent by Columbkill Noonan by publishing a spotlight post. I also participated in the monthly Six Degrees of Separation meme.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media this week.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Event Review: Ursula Buchan at Oxford Literary Festival
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Storyteller by Pierre Jarawan
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Blog Tour/Guest Post: The Spitfire Girl in the Skies by Fenella J. Miller
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Golden Hour (The Lady Evelyn Mysteries #4) by Malia Zaidi
- Book Review/Giveaway: The Confessions of Frannie Langston by Sara Collins
