JHB West - Nov 21

There isn’t a book by Nora Roberts that we haven’t loved - be it those under her
own name or when she’s writing at JD Robb. Forgotten In Death, the latest
in the Eve Dallas (sexy, tough homicide cop) series, kicks off with Eve called to
a murder before she’s even got to work. A side-walk sleeper has been found
stuffed in a construction site dumpster. Within hours, two more victims are
found close by, a young mother and her baby. These bodies, however, have
been buried for more than 40 years. Two crimes. Same location. Coincidence?
As regular fans know, Eve doesn’t believe in coincidences. Soon she, sidekick
Peabody, and gorg husband and richest man in the universe Roarke, are knee
deep in shady dealings and Russian mobsters. This is the 54th (good grief ) in the
In Death series ... and they’ve all hit the best-selling charts lists worldwide. They
read as stand-alones, so you haven’t yet read one, now’s a great time to start.
Piatkus • Nicci French’s called the master of psychological suspense for good
reason. And she certainly earns the title in The Unheard, which revolves around
a mum whose top priority has always been her daughter, Poppy. But splitting up
with Poppy’s father means she can’t always be there to keep her daughter safe,
and when she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, with the threeyear-old’s
otherwise brightly coloured paintings, she’s convinced that the child
has witnessed something terrible. Twist after twist means she doesn’t know who
to trust, and the reader has no idea what’s coming next. Simon and Schuster.
Wow. How fabulous is this month’s
line up of thrilling authors! Joanne
Harris is up there with the best of
them ... and A Narrow Door is a dark
and sinister as you can get. The first
headmistress of a once only boys’
school has spilt blood to get to the
position, and the remains of a body
are discovered in the school grounds
aren’t going to get in the way of her
rise to the top. She’ll bury the past so
deep even she won’t remember it, just
like she’s done before. Joanne’s hard
hitting from the first page ... a clever,
twisted, atmospheric read you just
won’t be able to put down. Orion
WHITE TRASH - A MEMOIR
Terry Angelos was born in Rhodesia - a place that raised her to be strong-willed,
fearless, curious. The daughter of two devoted, respectable, middle-class
teachers, she was, she says, destined for success in a white-picket-fence,
2.5-children family. Instead, at 19 she drops out of her fine art degree, leaves
South Africa and heads to London, and by the time she turned 20, she was
a call girl, embroiled in the underworld of Chinese Mafia, depraved clients
and blackmail. Now in her early 50s, she’s a visual artist in Durban, with
three children and a pug. White Trash is her story ... the heroic quest to
reinvent herself. Honest, descriptive, beautifully written, heartbreaking,
uplifting ... it’s a story that took more than 30 years for her to feel ready to
write. Now it’s written. Now she can shut the door. Melinda Ferguson Books
November 2021 Get It Magazine 09