Writers Write Book Review

by Julia Heaberlin (Penguin/Michael Joseph) ISBN 9781405921282 16-year-old Tessa Cartwright is one of the four ‘Black-Eyed Susans’ – the victims of a serial killer. She

Day Four by Sarah Lotz (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 978-1-444-77537-2 Wow! This book packs a punch. It has all the elements of an action-packed thriller.

by Michael Connelly (Orion) ISBN: 9781409145653 Harry Bosch is one year away from retirement and he’s not looking forward to it. When a man dies

by Karin Slaughter (Century) ISBN: 9781780893556 ‘You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class.

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Mantle) 9781447294504 I can’t remember the last time I set aside an afternoon to finish reading a book. I switched off everything

by Liza Klaussmann (Picador) ISBN: 978-1-4472-8438-3 Villa America is an historical novel based on real people, Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy. Villa America was this

Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig (Canongate) ISBN 9781782115083 If you’ve ever suffered from depression or anxiety attacks, or worse – both at the same

by Lauren Oliver (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 9780062224101 Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but a devastating accident has caused an icy rift between the

by Ian Rankin (Orion) ISBN 9781409151562 The first Rebus novel was published in 1987. 20 have been published to date and the best-sellers have been

by Darrel Bristow-Bovey (Zebra Press) ISBN 9781770227460 I believe Darrel Bristow-Bovey is the best writer we have in South Africa. I am so glad that