A dangerous memory lapse
Stay Awake
Author: Megan Goldin Publisher: St Martin’s Press
Liv finds herself in a taxi with no idea how she got there. She finds her way home but there is a stranger living in her apartment who forces her to leave. She has a bloodstained knife on her and her hands are covered with scribbles that tell her to stay awake. Her last memory is from two years ago, when she was living with her best friend and working as a writer in a trendy magazine. But now, she’s on the run for a murder she can’t remember committing.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Publisher: Ballantine Books
Retired tennis player Carrie is the best player in the world, having claimed 20 Grand Slam titles and shattered every record. She has given up a lot to achieve so much in her career and she’s happy to finally take a break. That is, until she sees a new player named Nicki Chan who easily beats her record. Her pride makes her go back on the court, determined to wrestle her record back from this newcomer.
The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs #2)
Author: Lisa Jewell Publisher: Atria
Three decades ago, three people were left dead on the kitchen floor of a mansion. This morning, detective Samuel Owusu is on the shore of the Thames, where human bones have been discovered. These bones are connected to the case from 30 years ago and he is struggling to find new leads. Meanwhile, Rachel has just been notified by the police that her husband has been found dead in his home in France, and that she has to go there to answer some questions.
Love On The Brain
Author: Ali Hazelwood Publisher: Sphere
Bee is offered her dream role on a neuro engineering project and she accepts the post, but with a fair bit of trepidation because her arch-nemesis, Levi, will be working together with her. In grad school, they both hated each other so much that she swore never to talk to him again. But here they are now, changing the world one scientific discovery at a time.
Complications abound in the lab: when her equipment mysteriously goes missing and no one else wants to talk to her, Levi somehow takes her side and she isn’t sure why.
The Puppeteer’s Daughters
Author: Heather Newton Publisher: Keylight Books
At his 80th birthday, famous puppeteer Walter Gray announces that he has a fourth daughter that the world doesn’t know about. He tells his three daughters that his will – and their inheritance – will be affected by this new development.
His eldest daughter Jane doesn’t want another sister to share the birthright, but the youngest, Cora, doesn’t care either way as all she wants is to extricate herself from running her father’s company.
However, the middle daughter Rosie, who has always been the black sheep of the family, is hoping that this new mystery sister will be the key to finally getting accepted by everyone else in the family.