Mystery




 * **Title** || **Author** || **Synopsis** || **Recommended by...** ||
 * **Jasper Jones** || Craig Silvey || Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. || Barbara, Joanna, Susan ||
 * ====**[|The Forgery of Venus]**==== || ====Michael Gruber==== || What happens when you get a skilled researcher writing about the forgery of Velazquez, mixed in with Russian Mafia, madness, drugs, time travel (or madness—the reader has to decide) and a few other plot twists. Michael Gruber is my spring discovery, and I am now hunting down his other books. I have now read //The Book of Air and Shadows//, about the forgery of a Shakespearean play, Russian Mafia, cryptography and more, and it was even better—but he doesn't only do forgery capers. || McManly ||
 * [|Before I Go to Sleep] || S. J. Watson || Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she's written three unexpected and terrifying words: "Don't trust Ben." Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can Christine’s story be trusted? At the heart of S. J. Watson's //Before I Go To Sleep// is the petrifying question: How can anyone function when they can't even trust themselves? A definite page turner. || Linda M. ||