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CULTURE | BOOK<br />
New Sizzling Titles<br />
Looking for the perfect book to start the new year? Here are some stellar<br />
picks in fiction, mysteries and thrillers to keep you entertained. Enjoy!<br />
Kingdomtide<br />
Rye Curtis<br />
Here is a story about tough-minded resilience where the lives of two women - the sole survivor of an<br />
airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her - intersect in a gripping<br />
debut novel of hope and resilience, second thoughts and second chances. This intense tale starts with<br />
72-year-old Cloris Waldrip who is the lone survivor of a plane crash in the mountains of Montana. Lost<br />
and alone in the unforgiving wilderness, Cloris is exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and<br />
ingenuity. While mourning the loss of her husband and struggling to stay alive, she receives help from the<br />
most unlikely person, and the experience changes who she is forever. Meanwhile in the second storyline,<br />
told in the third person, centres around Park Ranger Debra Lewis, a woman struggling with alcoholism and<br />
loneliness. Debra is soon galvanised by her mission to find and rescue Cloris despite the odds. While Cloris<br />
is literally lost, Debra is equally lost in a metaphorical sense.<br />
Saving Missy<br />
Beth Morrey<br />
<strong>The</strong> world has changed around Missy<br />
Carmichael. At 79, she’s estranged<br />
from her daughter, her son and only<br />
grandson live across the world in<br />
Australia, and her great love is gone.<br />
Missy spends her days with a sip of<br />
sherry, scrubbing the kitchen in her<br />
big empty house and reliving her<br />
past–though it’s her mistakes, and secrets that she allows to shine<br />
brightest. <strong>The</strong> last thing Missy expects is for two perfect strangers<br />
and one spirited dog to break through her prickly exterior and show<br />
Missy just how much love she still has to give. Filled with wry laughter<br />
and deep insights, this story shows us it’s never too late to love.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Butterfly Girl<br />
Rene Denfeld<br />
Thirty-year-old private investigator<br />
Naomi Cottle returns in Denfeld’s<br />
gripping follow-up to 2017’s <strong>The</strong> Child<br />
Finder, continuing her search for the<br />
sister she left behind when she fled<br />
captivity as a child. It won’t be easy:<br />
Naomi remembers nothing of the time<br />
before or during her captivity, not even<br />
her sister’s name. A series of recent murders of street kids has piqued<br />
her interest, and the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding<br />
missing children - returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark gritty<br />
streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young,<br />
homeless girls have been going missing and turning up dead.<br />
Perfect Little Children<br />
Sophie Hannah<br />
<strong>The</strong> New York Times bestselling author<br />
of <strong>The</strong> Monogram Murders and<br />
Woman with a Secret returns with a<br />
sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted<br />
tale of psychological suspense. All Beth<br />
has to do is drive her son to his soccer<br />
game, watch him play, and then return<br />
home. Just because she knows her exbest<br />
friend lives near the field, that doesn’t mean she has to drive past<br />
her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. She hasn’t seen Flora for<br />
twelve years. As she watches from across the road, Flora arrives and<br />
calls to her children Thomas and Emily to get out of the car. Except<br />
Flora looks the same, only older. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily<br />
were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did<br />
then. How is it possible that they haven’t grown up?<br />
Cold Storage<br />
David Koepp<br />
For some pure, unadulterated entertaining<br />
read, pick up this astonishing debut by<br />
the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild<br />
and terrifying adventure about three<br />
strangers who must work together to<br />
contain a highly contagious, deadly<br />
organism in one harrowing night armed<br />
with only luck, fearlessness and a caustic<br />
sense of humour. <strong>The</strong> story begins with Pentagon bioterror operative<br />
Roberto Diaz being sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack<br />
only to find something far worse. He contains it and buries it in cold<br />
storage deep beneath a little used military repository. Decades later,<br />
the organism has found a way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy.<br />
With only Roberto knowing how to stop it, its a race against time<br />
before complete destruction.<br />
TM | JANUARY/FEBRUARY <strong>2020</strong><br />
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