Living the #Bookish Life!
I am showing off my April Reading List!
First up:
📚 Hammerman: A Walking Shadow by Mike Nicol 🇿🇦, final book in the Fish and Vicki Series. Crime Fiction
About the Book (from Penguin Books SA Website)
📚 The Match by Harlan Coben. Crime Fiction
As a young child, Wilde was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity.
He is known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods.
But when a match at an online ancestry database puts him on the trail of a close relative – the first family member he has ever known – he thinks he might be about to solve the mystery of who he really is. Only this relation disappears as quickly as he’s resurfaced, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.
Undaunted, Wilde continues his research on DNA websites where he becomes caught up in a community of doxxers, a secret group committed to exposing anonymous online trolls.
Then one by one these doxxers start to die, and it soon becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting this secret community – and that his next victim might be Wilde himself …
Read an extract here
📚 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Humorous Fiction
About the Book (from Penguin Books SA Website)
‘Your ability to change everything – including yourself – starts here’ – Elizabeth Zott
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.
But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with – of all things – her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (‘combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride’) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott.
Read an extract here
📚 This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel. Crime Fiction
About the Book (from Penguin Books SA Website)
A story of sisters, secrets and a sanctuary with a dark heart from author of Sunday Times bestseller The Recovery of Rose Gold
Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets, if you keep ours.
High-flier Natalie Collins always has a plan. Her younger sister Kit rarely does.
Until she finds Wisewood. When Kit joins the self-help retreat on a secluded Maine island, Natalie has concerns. Why does it forbid contact with the outside world? Is it a cult?
Then, after months of silence, she receives a message:
Would you like to come tell your sister what you did – or should we?
Who is digging into the Collins’ past? Natalie will have to go to Wisewood to find out.
But it turns out Wisewood is far easier to get into than to leave…
Read an extract here
Are you a #FictionFan #FictionReader? Are any of these books on your TBR radar? Which book should I read first?
All these books are published locally by Penguin Books and available from most major book retailers. Check out their website for more details.
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Disclosure: Thank you Penguin Books SA for these review copies
