When you’re onto a winner, stick with it. And there’s nothing like the latest in a series you love to keep you reading all night. Library member Mary agrees:
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich is:
“Another great Stephanie Plum adventure that keeps you turning pages, and laughing out loud, in the middle of the night.”
Thanks, Mary!
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If you love true stories of survival against the odds, our library member Gwenda, has been up all night reading just the thing.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer documents a deadly expedition up Mt Everest, undertaken by the author to document the commercialisation of the ascent, which was hit with some of the worst weather the Himalayas can throw at climbers. Gwenda said she was:
“On the edge all night! Finished it at 3am. The book took you along the journey – every step of the way! So very exciting!”
Thanks, Gwenda!
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High praise from our library member, Jordan, for a great book to keep you reading all night:
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly.
“Best read ever, fast-paced, action-packed, amazing storyline, hanging on to your seat until the last page. Started reading 10pm at night and finished at 8.30am. No way, you won’t want to put this down.”
Thanks, Jordan!
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The Spotlight for February is on the popular sub-genre of courtroom mysteries and legal thrillers. There are some great best-selling authors in this genre and some less well known ones for you to try out. The focus of the courtroom mysteries and legal thrillers is usually on lawyers and the system of justice which offers writers plenty of scope for mystery, suspense and action as the lawyers or their employees try to solve their cases. Usually they are trying to prove the innocence of their client at the risk of their own safety or comfort.
Some authors for you to comment on or try out in this genre are William Bernhardt, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, Linda Fairstein, Richard North Patterson, Philip Margolin, Steve Martini, Earle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series, John Mortimer’s Rumple series, James Grippando, Lisa Scottoline, and Scott Turow.
If you prefer a classic, try To Kill a Mockingbird which was first published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize, in which a lawyer in the depression-era South defends a black man accused of rape.
One of my personal favourites is John Grisham’s tightly plotted Pelican Brief, and I also very much enjoyed the courtroom scenes in Jeffrey Archer’s A Prisoner of Birth which illustrates how easily and innocent man can be set up and sent to prison.
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viewed by Andrea
Red Mist brings the reader once again into the realms of Dr Kay Scarpetta and her career in forensics to find out what happened to Scarpetta’s former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, who was murdered. Visiting a womens prison, Kay receives information which leads to discovering connections of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. An intriguing web of killings which initially appear unrelated, brings together her FBI husband Benton, her niece Lucy and investigator Pete Marino.
Patricia Cornwell is author of eighteen previous novels featuring Dr Kay Scarpetta
and each one follows the forensic path of gaining answers to allow justice to prevail.
In this book the storyline gets bogged down with an oversupply of forensic terminology
to such an extent that the reader’s attention is diverted. It’s not a page turner and
avid readers of her books may be disappointed, I was.
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