These are the books our Books Editor, Meneesha Govender, received recently. They may be reviewed later.
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Goodhouse
by Peyton Marshall (Doubleday)
Goodhouse is an educational establishment – a place for boys with bad genes.
Outside its walls lies danger, but within lies another threat. Escape brings with it the risk of death.
Set in the future, this book is a dark story about genetic engineering at a corrective school for boys with criminal genes.
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Die Again
by Tess Gerritsen (Penguin Random House)
Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles are back.
This time they’re investigating the bizarre murder of a man who was found gutted and hanging in his home.
Then the remains of another victim are found and it becomes clear that a serial killer has been at work for years – and not just in Boston.
Six years earlier, a group set off on an African safari. None of them was seen again – save one woman who stumbled out of the bush, barely alive.
She is the only one to have seen the killer’s face. Jane is sent to Africa to find this woman – and convince her to face death again.
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Wild – A Journey from Lost to Found
by Cheryl Strayed (Penguin)
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled.
With nothing to lose, she made an impulsive decision: to walk 1 100 miles (1 770km) of the west coast of America – from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state – and to do it alone.
She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map.
But it held a promise of piercing together a life that lay in ruins.
The book, a number one on the New York Times best-seller list, was published in 2012, but there is renewed interest in it with the release of the movie of the same name in South Africa on February 27.
Reece Witherspoon, who plays Strayed in the movie, has been nominated for an Academy Award this year.