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Summer Reading

As the festive season approaches and Christmas commitments loom large if you are anything like me you will not be thinking so much about shopping and organising the family but more about organising your Christmas reading! Here are a few suggestions for your Summer Reading List, new to our collection. Speaking of Christmas, the Opening hours for the Gerladton-Greenough Regional Library are available on the Library’s website.

The Unquiet by John Connolly

Daniel Clay, psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to children in his care. His daughter tries to come to terms with her legacy, but a revenger (Merrick) and father is obsessed with discovering the truth about his own daughter’s disappearance, and does not believe that Clay is dead. Detective Parker is hired, but it appears other forces are at work – someone is funding Merrick’s hunt, and others are drawn from the shadows intent upon their own form of revenge.

 Bliss by Peter Carey

While this title may not be fresh from the publisher it is new to our shelves it comes from a writer whose style is timeless. Here are a few words from the novel Bliss by Peter Carey:

“For thirty-nine years Harry has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his surburban front lawn, and for the space of nine minutes, Harry becomes a dead guy. And although he is resusitated, he will never be the same again…” (Vintage, 1996)

Maybe you are a Patricia Cornwell fan looking for something with more ‘edge’. Why not give this title a go?

Written On the Skin – an Australian forensic casebook.

 Liz Porter’s riveting casebook shows how forensic investigators – including pathologists, entomologists and DNA experts – have used their specialist knowledge to identify victims, catch perpetrators, exonerate innocent suspects and solve dozens of crimes and mysteries. 

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