Next Wednesday 18th February is crime book club. We are discussing The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas and as usual we meet on Google+ Hangouts at 8pm GMT.
Below you will find your voting choices for the meeting in March. You can leave your preferences in the comments, on the Facebook Page or on Twitter using the hashtag #crimebookclub.
I look forward to seeing you next week and I believe we are going to be having a busy meeting with some new members!
In The Blood by Lisa Unger
Liar, liar, pants on fire . . . College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that the truth seems like a distant, cloudy nightmare. But she meets her match when she begins babysitting for a volatile, manipulative eleven-year-old boy. Soon after Lana takes the job, her close friend Beck mysteriously disappears. Lana instantly begins fabricating stories – to friends, to police, to herself. Why doesn’t her account jibe with those of eye-witnesses? Lana will do anything to bury the truth about that night … and about her life. But someone else knows her secrets. And he’s dying to tell.
A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay
When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenage girl trying to hitch a ride – even when she starts tapping on his window. But as soon as he realises she’s one of his son’s classmates, he knows he can’t really leave her, alone, on the street.
But nothing prepares him for the consequences of trying to help her out. The next morning he’s gone from Good Samaritan to Murder Suspect, and with one girl dead and another missing, he’s suddenly at the centre of a deadly puzzle that reaches right to the heart of the town – from its bullying police force to its strangely furtive mayor – and finally to one family’s shocking secret.
Of course it was love for my children, love for my son, that caused me to act as I did. It was a lapse of judgement. If I could have foreseen the rippling aftershocks that followed I would have acted differently, but by the time I realised the extent of the consequences, it was too late.
The MacBrides have always gone to Far Barn in Devon for Bonfire Night, but this year everything is different. Lydia, the matriarch, is dead; Sophie, the eldest daughter, is desperately trying to repair a crumbling marriage; and Felix, the youngest of the family, has brought a girlfriend with him for the first time.
The girl, Kerry, seems odd in a way nobody can quite put their finger on – but when they leave her looking after Sophie’s baby daughter, and return to find both Kerry and the baby gone, they are forced to ask themselves if they have allowed a cuckoo into their nest…
Interesting choices, Rebecca! My vote’s for the Kelly in this case, but any of them would be fine.
Thanks Margot.
As you know I love the Kelly but Lisa Unger’s, In The Blood is also a good read, if all goes to plan this is the meeting I aim to join in with 🙂
Hi Rebecca i vote for In the Blood by Lisa Unger this has been on my TBR pile since last year.
My vote goes to Lisa Unger
Hello, thank you for your help in finding this list. I vote for “A tap on the Window” looking forward to finding out which book wins the vote as they all look good and coming to my first meeting next month.