‘Do you need my help?’ It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn.
As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage. Raised and trained in a top secret programme, he was sent to bad places to do things the government denied ever happened. Then he broke with the programme, using what he’d learned to vanish.
Now he helps the desperate and deserving. But someone’s on his trail. Someone who knows his past and believes that the boy once known as Orphan X must die …
We’ve all seen him: the man – the monster – staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs – the wife who stands by him?
Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she’d ever wanted: her Prince Charming. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page.
Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. But now Glen is dead and she’s alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows.
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner
Edith Hind is gone, leaving just her coat, a smear of blood and a half-open door.
A DESPERATE FAMILY
Each of her friends and relatives has a version of the truth. But none quite adds up.
A DETECTIVE AT BREAKING POINT
The press grows hungrier by the day. Can DS Manon Bradshaw fend them off, before a missing persons case becomes a murder investigation?
Circling the Sun – Paula McLain
As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage – but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny.
Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer’s licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen’s memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.
The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin
Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is he’s already there.
Noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn’t and remembers things he should have forgotten. Because as well as being a four-year-old called Noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called Tommy. He remembers his house. His family. His mother. And now he wants to go home.
Two boys. Two mothers. One unforgettable story …
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald
Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody.
Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short, this is a town in need of a bookshop.
With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel’s first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara. And as Broken Wheel’s story begins to take shape, there are some surprises in store for Sara too…
The Loving Husband – Christobel Kent
The Loving Husband draws readers into a marriage where nothing is as it seems…For better, for worse, to love and to cherish, till death us do part…
Fran Hall and her husband Nathan have moved with their two children to a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens – a chance to get away from London and have a fresh start. But when Fran wakes one night to find Nathan gone, she makes a devastating discovery.
As questions about her husband and her relationships start to mount, Fran’s life begins to spiral out of control.
What is she hiding from the police about her marriage, and does she really know the man she shared her bed with?
1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance.
When John and Ella meet it is a dance that will change two lives forever.
Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
Yay! The leaves are crunching under my feet, there’s a chill in the air and it’s the Richard and Judy bookclub! Autumn has been officially announced.
The Ballroom, it sounds so unusual and really stands out from the list!
The Forgetting Time sounds like the kind of book I would love to read. x
The Forgetting Time would be my first choice to read, it sounds really good.
I’ve read The Ballroom (poignant!). The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend sounds a good read.
The Fogetting Time. Fabulous book.
I haven’t read any of these but they all sound a good read. My favourite one however, that I would read first, is The Loving Husband.
Missing Presumed as I love thrillers/mysteries
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommended sticks out as one to read , which has surprised me as i would normally go straight for the Crime section.
Missing, Presumed
The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend sounds fantastic
Missing, Presumed
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin sounds really intriguing
The widow sounds interesting
From the ones I haven’t read, Orphan X looks good
Looking at this list, my favourite to read next would be Missing, Presumed. It looks intriguing!
The Widow by Fiona Barton – couldn’t put it down!
Missing Presumed gripping
The forgetting time
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin. I haven’t read any of these yet but this is the one that stands out for me.
The Forgetting Time sounds so intriguing. Though, to be fair, they all sound amazing.
The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin. Sounds like it might be about reincarnation and shared genetic memory both subjects that fascinate me.
The Loving Husband – Christobel Kent is my favourite. You can get a sense of something isn’t right, but it’s that not knowing if your right that keeps you reading on. I love it. Although all these books sound so gripping.
the forgetting time
The Widow – Fiona Barton x
The Forgetting Time would be my choice.
Missing, Presumed
The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin x
I quite fancy reading Missing, Presumed
The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin, this book sounds very intriguing
Circling the Sun
The Forgetting Time – I love books that speak of experiences we cannot always explain .
I’d love to give The Widow a read x
Orphan X sounds my fav!
Orphan X!
The Loving Husband
The Widow – Fiona Barton
The widow. Richard and Judy always recommend good books
The Widow, fantastic book
The Loving Husband. They all look great reads!
The forgetting time
The forgetting time looks fascinating
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Circling the Sun
The widow sounds intriging
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner looks a awesome read
i love The Ballroom
the loving husband was a fantastic read !
the forgetting time has me totally intrugued
I haven’t read any of them yet but Missing, Presumed looks very interesting
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
My favourite was The Ballroom.
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner
I haven’t read any of them yet but they all sound intriguing. Would love to read The Loving Husband.
Love thrillers, so Orphan X is my choice!
has to be orphan x
There are a few books that I will have to read but the one I am going to start with is Orphan X.
I have read readers of broken wheel and loved it, looking forward to reading the other books – the forgetting time is next on my list
Orphan X sounds intriguing
I haven’t read but I would pick up Orphan X first looks interesting 🙂
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Loving Husband – Christobel Kent
The Ballroom
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner
Some great looking books here, but I think I’d choose The Widow, I’ve heard really good things about it!
Missing,Presumed – Susie Steiner
susie steiner – missing presumed
I’ve read the Widow and it was excellent – I’d love to read The Forgetting Time, sounds really intriguing!
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner sounds intriguing, just my cup of tea!
Orphan X, by Gregg Hurwitz, sounds a gripping story, that I’d love to read.
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend sounds perfect for me!
Circling the Sun – Paula McLain IS FAB
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin
The Widow – Fiona Barton
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
The Forgetting Time sounds great.
anna hope
The Window
The Loving Husband – Christobel Kent
The Ballroom – Anna Hope
The loving husband – Christobel Kent
I’d love to read them all, but I’m most intrigued by ‘The Forgetting Time’ by Sharon Guskin
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin sounds really good
missing presumed – susan steiner
The Forgetting Time
Orphan X sounds like a good read!
Orphan X sounds intriguing – I would love to read that!
The Widow