Saturday, June 11, 2022

SPLINTER THE SILENCE

Val McDERMID. SPLINTER THE SILENCE. HarperCollins, 2019. 

I am so happy to have been introduced to this Scots crime writer equally as entertaining as Ian Rankin, and with female protagonists too. My selections have been in the Carol Jordan /Tony Hill series. In this one, Carol finishes re-doing the barn, gets arrested for drunk driving, and heads the new re-MIT major incident (crime) team. As a practice-run, they uncover a previously unknown serial killer. 




SCARBOROUGH

Catherine Hernandez. SCARBOROUGH. Arsenal, 2017.

Winner of CBC Canada Reads this year, 2022. Voices of students, parents, teachers, and administrators in a Toronto suburb. Although I am not usually a fan of stories told from a child's POV, this book is the exception. Revealing and moving.



Evelyn Evelyn

Palmer and Webley. EVELYN EVELYN. Dark Horse Books, 2011. 

A graphic novel about the unfortunate life of Siamese twin girls, Americans, who end up in Manitoba. 



The LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET

 Catriona Ward. THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET. Nightfire, 2021.