The choices for January’s crime book club meeting are below. The meeting will be on Wednesday 21st January 8p.m. GMT on Google+ hangouts as usual. If you haven’t yet joined us for a meeting, but like the look of the books, then you can find out how the hangouts work Here.
The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern.
When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl’s grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece – the one who had committed suicide – was not his girlfriend. Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved – and of the things she may have done to escape her past.
Now, twenty years later, she’s back, and she’s telling George that he’s the only one who can help her…
The Girl On The Stairs by Louise Welsh
Jane Logan is a stranger to Berlin and she finds the city alive and echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant, she’s instructed by her partner Petra to rest and enjoy her new life in Germany. But while Petra is out at work, Jane begins to feel uneasy in their chic apartment. Screams reverberate through the walls, lights flicker in the derelict building that looms over the yard, a shadow passes on the stairs…Jane meets a neighbour’s daughter, a girl whose life she tries to mend, but her involvement only further isolates her. Alone and haunted, Jane fears the worst…but the worst is yet to come. Louise Welsh, the acclaimed author of The Cutting Room, delivers another masterful suspense novel. The Girl on the Stairs is a powerful psychological thriller packed with twists and turns to keep you reading well into the night. Read it, or be left in the dark.
Good Girls Don’t Die by Isabelle Grey
You’d know if someone close to you was capable of lethal violence, right?
Dead wrong.
Accused of grassing up a fellow officer and driven brutally out of home and job, Grace Fisher is thankful to survive some dark times and find haven with the Major Investigation Team in Essex.
One female student is missing, last seen at a popular bar in Colchester. When a second student, also out drinking, is murdered and left grotesquely posed, the case becomes headline news.
Someone is leaking disturbing details to a tabloid crime reporter. Is it the killer? Or a detective close to the case?
With another victim, and under siege by the media, the murder enquiry hits a dead end. The review team brought in to shake things up is headed by Grace’s old DCI. Who is going to listen to her now?
Leave your vote in the comments, on the Facebook page or on Twitter using the hashtag #crimebookclub. Here’s to another great year ahead for the book club!
Will have to give it some thought. I want all of them?
Don’t forget to come back to this Steph!
I won’t be able to join you in January (I’ll be driving back from the south of France – hopefully not in a blizzad – that evening), but the one I’ve wanted to read for a while is The Girl on the Stairs. I’ve read and reviewed The Girl with a Clock for a Heart – it was OK, but nothing to write home about (although apparently film rights have been bought).
I just love the title of The Girl With A Clock for a Heart. It’s so unique.
It’s a shame you can’t make it but i hope you’ll enjoy your trip. You will be missed.
Rebecca – All of these are great ideas. My vote is for The Girl on the Stairs. Like Marina Sofia, I’ve been wanting to read that.
Isabelle Grey gets my vote. Although probably going to read anyway, having read the description, so no problem if not.
Looked again, my vote goes to The Girl on the Stairs