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LOVE AND OTHER HUMAN ERRORS BY BETHANY CLIFT
Despite finding romantic love and relationships a bit pointless, Indiana Dylan has created Tru, a data harvesting program that matches you to your perfect soulmate. The person who will be your ideal partner, no matter what life throws at you. However, when Indiana pitches Tru to the bosses at dating app JaneDoe, she is pressured into proving the efficacy of the soulmate program by going through the process herself. Set in the nottoo-distant future, this quirky and unusual romantic comedy story explores ideas of love, human error, loneliness, friendship and happiness. Filled with wonderful characters and a brilliant dog, Alan, Love and Other Human Errors is a heart-warming and humorous summer read.
RUN TIME BY CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD
The bestselling author of 56 Days is back with a psychological thriller about life imitating art. Adele Rafferty is an out-of-work actor on the verge of leaving acting for good when a dream job comes her way. She is offered the lead in a horror film being shot in her home country, Ireland, when the previous actress pulls out at the last minute. Adele jumps at the opportunity to reignite her career, however, when she arrives at the isolated film set in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by trees and devoid of phone reception, the whole thing takes on a sinister hue. Between the script, the book it is based on and the film, this is a story withing a story withing a story, with the lines being blurred between fiction and reality. Are the strange events and mishaps on set real, or is Adele slowly losing her mind? A dark, atmospheric, and entertaining read.
DO NO HARM BY ROBERT POBI
Ex-FBI Agent Lucas Page is an astrophysicist, polymath, professor, and all-round genius. He can recognise patterns that most people are oblivious to. Having lost an arm, a leg, and an eye in the line of duty, Page left the FBI to focus on a life of academia. When his wife Ellen, an esteemed surgeon, loses her friend, also a gifted surgeon, to suicide, Lucas Page begins to consider the number of friends Ellen has lost over the past year. All medical professionals, they have lost their lives in freak accidents and now suicide. As Page gathers clues and information on the deceased doctors he realises there is a pattern, and his wife is likely to be the next victim. An exciting and fast paced mystery for fans of David Baldacci and Daniel Silva.
THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA BY SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1989. War photographer, gambler and closet gay, Maali Almeida, has woken up dead in some sort of afterlife customs office. His dismembered body is already making its way to the bottom of the Beira Lake. In a country ravaged by civil war, dealing with death squads, suicide bombers and thugs for hire, the list of people who could have killed him is endless. However, Maali doesn’t have the rest of his afterlife to figure out what happened. He has seven moons to find a way to contact the people he loves and help them discover his secret stash of photos that he is sure will cause uproar in Sri Lanka. A witty and engaging satirical novel.
THE 6:20 MAN BY DAVID BALDACCI
Thirty-two-year-old Travis Devine boards the train to Manhattan at 6.20 every morning. He works as an entry level financial analyst at a prestigious investment firm, Cowl and Comley, where he puts in long hours, six days a week. A former army ranger, Devine had risen to the rank of Captain before quitting to retrain, get his MBA and enter the, not entirely satisfying, world of finance. However, his tedious routine is disrupted when he receives an anonymous email telling him that his colleague and former girlfriend, Sara Ewes, has been found dead at their office, the victim of an apparent suicide. Travis doubts that Sara would take her own life and as the NYPD and the FBI reach out to him his suspicions are confirmed: Sara was murdered. To the NYPD he is a suspect, to the FBI he is a tool. They want him to uncover shady goings on in Cowl and Comely. With The 6:20 Man, Baldacci has produced an action-packed and suspenseful thriller. e
