These are the books our Books Editor, Meneesha Govender, received recently. They may be reviewed later.
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It Started with Paris
by Cathy Kelly (Orion)
At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposed to his girlfriend, cheered on by delighted tourists. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Bridgeport, Ireland.
Leila has been nursing a badly broken heart since her husband upped and left one morning. Vonnie, a widow and cake baker, is daring to let love back in her life, although someone is determined to stop it. Grace, a divorced head teacher, finds the impending wedding of her son means she is spending more time with her ex-husband. This tale draws the three together.
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Missing You
by Harlean Coben (Orion)
It’s a profile like all the others on the online dating website, but as NYPD detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode as emotions she has ignored for decades come crashing down. Staring back at her is the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago. But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion as a conspiracy comes to light. Kat is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved – including her father whose cruel murder long ago has never fully been explained.
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Killing You Softly
by Lucy Carver (MacMillan)
For those of you wanting to get your teen daughters reading this summer, here’s one for you to consider.
St Jude’s Academy is an elite boarding school, where pupils are beautiful and out of control.
Alyssa arrives at school to the news that a local girl has been murdered.
She can’t shake the feeling that the murder is somehow connected to her.
Added to this she begins receiving texts from a secret admirer.
As the messages become increasingly creepy and when a pupil goes missing, Alyssa realises that she is in this a little too deep.