March 2017
The
Pictures is by Guy Bolton. Hollywood
1939. The year that The Wizard of
Oz and Gone with the
Wind were made. Detective Craine has spent his life working as a
studio fixer, whitewashing the misdemeanours and crimes committed by the studio
players and stars. But now he’s trying to turn his back on that life
following the recent death of his wife as he’s determined to be a better parent
to his young son. But then Craine’s services are called upon one last
time. MGM need him to smooth over the press coverage of the suicide of one of
their producers. And soon, what should be a straightforward case proves
anything but when connections are made between it and a brutal murder across
town. And that’s just the start of the story.
It’s only a matter of time before Craine must decide whether to follow
orders, or to attempt to redeem a career of concealment by going in search of
the ugly truth. It’s a choice he knows that cannot end well.
April 2017
Agent
10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. When a top agent in
the Israeli Organization receives a disturbing notebook written by the
mysterious 10483, supposedly dead for years, he realizes that something went
terribly wrong. Is 10483 a psychopath
who outwitted his handlers for years? Or was he manipulated by his superiors to
carry out the most monstrous assassinations in the history of the state of
Israel? And why was he the only agent to receive three envelopes with targeted
killing assignments instead of one, as part of a lethal and top secret
operation? Was he responsible for locking up his victims and staging their
deaths, or was he himself merely the victim of a brilliant scientist whose
cutting-edge discoveries enabled her to manipulate his brain waves? Three Envelopes is by Nir Herzoni
Lola
is by Melissa Scrivner Love. Lola stands next to Garcia while he mans the grill
in their
craggy square of backyard. The barbeque has just begun, and the women
are gossiping, while the men hold sweating beers. Business has been good lately
in their tiny nugget of South Central Los Angeles, where a legit man has two
choices: landscaping off-the-books for West Side white cash, or sweating
through twelvehour factory shifts. Garcia does not make his living either way.
And if Lola were like the other women at her barbeque, she would spend her day
perched on a stool behind a dollar-store cash register. Suddenly: a sharp knock
on the front door, probably a cop. Lola has never met the man standing there,
but she knows his name. Everyone in this neighbourhood knows his name. He’s The
Collector, and he won’t give them long.
May 2017
New
Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy
with their friends from Maine—Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow.
“From the beginning,” says Taylor, “it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to
be together.” Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the
characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present.
Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes
the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in
marriage. With her inimitable psychological astuteness and uncanny
understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on
marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast
of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a
psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see
coming. Siracusa is by Delia Ephron.
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