February 2020 - Joburg North

Christmas is coming. But for Women’s
Murder Club, crime never stops. In
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro’s
19th Christmas, Sergeant Lindsay
Boxer is looking forward to spending
time with her family over the holidays.
But then she receives a tip-off that the
biggest heist ever to hit San Francisco
is being planned for Christmas Day,
and the architect of the ambitious
attack unleashes chaos across the
city, laying traps and false alarms to
distract Lindsay and the SFPD from his
ultimate goal. Penguin, R290.
In her new home, Brodie’s Watch, Ava thinks she’s found the perfect place to
hide from a past she’s ashamed of. But in The Shape of Night it’s not long
before Ava begins to suspect she’s not alone in this house full of secrets. If
she’s wrong, then maybe she’s losing her mind. Tess Gerritsen cranks up the
suspense ... it’s all haunted houses and handsome ghosts and (phantom) sex.
Bantam Press, R290. • Dear Mr Wrexham, I know you don’t know me but please,
please, please, you have to help me. Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key opens
with a young woman begging a barrister for help. Her name is Rowan, and she’s
the nanny in the Elincourt case. She says, ‘I didn’t kill that child’. A dream job of
live-in nanny with a staggeringly generous salary and a picture-perfect family
turns into a nightmare for Rowan, one which ends with a child dead and her
in a cell awaiting trial for murder. A murder she swears she’s not responsible
for. Described as a gripping modern-day haunted house thriller, this is one you
shouldn’t read when you’re at home alone! Harvill Secker, R290.
HOLIDAY READS
Red hot reads for the summer
Baby Zephany Nurse hit the headlines when she was kidnapped from
beside her mothers hospital bed more than 20 years ago. She hit the
headlines again when, by pure chance, her birth parents discovered
she’d been living just a short distance away. Now, in Zephany, written
by Joanne Jowell, Miché Solomon tells the often harrowing story of the
past four years and her struggles to come to terms with living with two
sets of parents – those who brought her up, who love her and whom she
loves and her birth parents who are strangers. Adding to the trauma is
the fact that the woman she believed was her mother, ‘who was there
for me every day’ was jailed for the kidnapping. Fortunately, the man she
calls Daddy, Michael Solomon, has never wavered in his love and support,
which has hugely helped Miché courageously continue to forge ahead in
her efforts to make a success of her life. Tafelberg, R260.
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