Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Maestra: The Most Shocking Thriller You’ll Read This Year, L.S. Hilton, ISBN 978-1785760037 (Zaffre Publishing) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Fatal Attraction meets The Talented Mr Ripley, soon to be a major Hollywood film – prepare for this year’s The Girl on the Train.
Amy Pascal, Columbia Pictures producer, described it in glowing terms: ‘Riveting . . . One of the most memorable females in recent fiction’.
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars.
Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She’s learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She’s learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart.
So she turns to a long-neglected friend. A friend that kept her chin up and back straight through every past slight. A friend that a good girl like her shouldn’t have: Rage.
The Talented Mr Ripley meets Gone Girl in this darkly decadent and compelling new thriller that asks: Where do you go when you’ve gone too far?
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My Mother’s Secret, Sheila O’Flanagan, ISBN 978-1472210708 (Headline Review)
BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
When Steffie helps her two siblings organise a surprise wedding anniversary party for their parents her only worry is whether they’ll be pleased. What she doesn’t know is this is the day that her whole world will be turned upside down.
Jenny wants to be able to celebrate her ruby anniversary with the man she loves, but for 40 years she has kept a secret – a secret that she can’t bear to hide any longer. But is it ever the right time to hurt the people closest to you?
As the entire family gather to toast the happy couple, they’re expecting a day to remember. The trouble is, it’s not going to be for the reasons they imagined.
My favourite read of the week
Theodore Boone: The Fugitive: Theodore Boone 5, John Grisham, ISBN 978-1473626959 (Hodder), BD4 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Theodore Boone – teenage lawyer and courtroom hero – is on a class trip seeing the sights of the capital city. But he hadn’t counted on seeing the most wanted man in the history of his home town, Strattenberg.
Suddenly Theo is caught in the hunt for an accused murderer, alongside the FBI. Theo knows he’s getting in deep and things could become even more dangerous because if this case goes back to court, it will be down to him.
Will justice finally be done ... or will the killer’s criminal allies be out for revenge?
