Savage Secrets

Elise and Scott are a young couple who are in the Hamptons taking care of her dying father, Victor. Victor is an evil man. He abused Elise and her brother and has mistreated Scott. While Elise spends her days at the hospital, Scott stays at Victor’s house, drinks his liquor and looks for something to end his boredom. He watches a timed light go on in the house next door and decides to investigate. When he finds the door unlocked he ventures in. Later he convinces Elise to join him there for a little forbidden pleasure. What they discover is shocking. Soon the couple becomes involved in a heinous situation that spirals downward and threatens everything they have. The Winter Girl by Matt Marinovich is a dark psychological thiller that stuns the reader with wicked deeds. DB  

Every Last One

I’ve always liked Anna Quindlen’s books but I have been avoiding them lately because sometimes they can be sad or disturbing.  I found myself listening to Every Last One because I had heard great things about the narrator of this audio book and needed something for my commute to work.  I was not disappointed – the narrator of this book was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.  That said, be warned!  About halfway through the book you WILL start bawling.  The story is about Mary Beth Latham, a woman with a husband and three children and the shocking act of violence that changes everything in her life.  Anna Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and for good reason - you will find yourself drawn into this book. SG

buzzzz for Little Bee...

recommended read and a starred review by Booklist---Little Bee, smart and stoic, knows two people in England, Andrew and Sarah, journalists she chanced upon on a Nigerian beach after fleeing a massacre in her village, one grisly outbreak in an off-the-radar oil war. After sneaking into England and escaping a rural “immigration removal” center, she arrives at Andrew and Sarah’s London suburb home only to find that the violence that haunts her has also poisoned them. In an unnerving blend of dread, wit, and beauty, Cleave slowly and arrestingly excavates the full extent of the horror that binds Little Bee and Sarah together. A columnist for the Guardian, Cleave earned fame and notoriety when his first book, Incendiary, a tale about a terrorist attack on London, was published on the very day London was bombed in July 2005. His second ensnaring, eviscerating novel charms the reader with ravishing descriptions, sly humor, and the poignant improvisations of Sarah’s Batman-costumed young son, then launches devastating attacks in the form of Little Bee’s elegantly phrased insights into the massive failure of compassion in the world of refugees. Cleave is a nerves-of-steel storyteller of stealthy power, and this is a novel as resplendent and menacing as life itself.---Seaman, Donna Copyright 2008 BooklistDistributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. CKW