Title: Hour of the wolf
Author: Hakan Nesser
Yan’s pick
He drives home, very drunk. Then he runs over a 16 years old boy on the road. The boy is dead.
Under the cover of midnight’s darkness and heavy rain, he thinks he can get away with the hit and run. True, the police scramble and desperately ask for public help and the driver to come forward.
Then he receives a blackmail letter which demands money for silence. Continue reading
Title: The prisoner of heaven
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Yan’s pick
Barcelona, Christmas 1957, Sempere & Son’s bookshop struggles to get customers in. While the Old Sempere tries to find ways for business keep going, the son, Daniel has a strange visitor who buys a significant antique book. More strangely the visitor does not only overpay for the book but also wants Daniel to pass this book to Fermin, whom Daniel thinks of highly and dearly.
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in the fine house her father is so proud of, a strong-willed young woman who’s certain where her future lies. She’s known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. But the past is waiting in ambush with its dark legacy. There’s a secret in Sarah’s family, a piece of the past kept hidden from the world and from her. A secret Jack can’t live with… (NovelList Plus) Continue reading
Title: No way down
Author: Graham Bowley
Christina’s pick
No way down is a journey through the tragic mountaineering accident in August 2008. Continue reading
As part of the National year of Reading Parramatta Library Service is running a fun Photographic Competition –
‘Who do you read to?’