1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should
inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s
deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles
Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his
beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her
father’s office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is
called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is
horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it
is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his
uncle’s fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new
generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is
expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art
fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at
auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in
danger? Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, but once again, pose
so many more.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Harlan Coben – Six Years
In Six Years, a masterpiece of modern suspense, Harlan Coben
explores the depth and passion of lost love…and the secrets and lies at its
heart.
Six years have passed
since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six
years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college
professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six
years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.
But six years haven’t
come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s
obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the
glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie. Whoever the
mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with
that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life—a
time he has never gotten over—is turned completely inside out.
As Jake searches for
the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual
friends of the couple either can’t be found, or don’t remember Jake. No one has
seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart, who
lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he
has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction.
Harlan Coben once
again delivers a shocking page-turner that deftly explores the power of past
love, and the secrets and lies that such love can hide.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
I did not
finish this book found it to be at most mediocre
– but here is what it says in a review.
Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed
suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes
that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a
marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her
work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty
addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling
prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a
warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s
fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are
being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented
McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing
himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of
his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl
perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting
pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting
parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and
inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is
he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon
wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister,
Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do
it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden
in the back of her bedroom closet? With her razor-sharp writing and trademark
psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark,
and ingeniously plotted thriller.
Monday, 4 March 2013
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