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John Niven’s The Fathers is about a first time father who meets a sixth-time dad in the maternity ward … both about to change their lives, but they have no idea what’s going to happen next! So funny, so moving … a lovely read. Canongate
Getting away with murder is tough enough when you’re young. But when you a little older and an investigative journalist knocks on your door asking about your connection to a couple of long-unsolved crimes … well, that’s a little annoying. Too Old For This by Samantha Downing is funny, clever, a great beach read. Michael Joseph
The new Thursday Murder Club mystery … in Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune, there’s a wedding to plan, so no time to think about murder. But then a wedding guests admits she’s in trouble, and soon kidnap and death are hot on the Thursday Murder Club’s members once again. Penguin Viking
In the new Lincoln Lawyer thriller by Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground, an AI company’s chatbot encourages a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. All too real … unputdownable! Orion
Who polices the police? A cop murders his family, and then turns the gun on himself. In his shed is a cache of weapons .. Russian automatics, handguns, 9mms, 38s. This was a cop with a side racket. And he’s not the only one. Mike Nicol’s Falls The Shadow explores the role of the police since the advent of democracy in South Africa. Macmillan
What if you could remember everything, except the day you disappeared? Karen Thompson Walker’s psychological thriller The Strange Case of Jane O is a story about memory, identity, fate, and the haunting mysteries of the human mind. Manilla Press
