I don’t really take too much notice of Richard & Judy’s Book Club, not that there is anything wrong with it but usually they don’t spark too much interest on the radar. But the Summer Reads have a couple of genre-touching titles you might like.
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
Published by Headline and released 14 May 2009 in paperback
He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It’s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she’s not. And when they break into the shuttered shop on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they’re catapulted along a murder trail which leads them from modern dance to Nazi secrets and serial killers…
I’ve read a Colin Bateman some time ago though I can’t remember for the life of me remember what it was called. I know I enjoyed it at the time so I have a feeling that this one will be quite fun too.
Palace Council by Stephen L. Carter
Published by Vintage and Out Now in paperback
Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. The murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands and Eddie is determined to find out why he was killed and what the cross signifies. But then Eddie’s sister Junie becomes entangled in an underground movement and vanishes…Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the President of the United States?
I do like the odd conspiracy theory and I’m a bit of Americanophile. I’m also a lover of things like The West Wing so this sounds quite fun!
Actually both seem to fit in the escapist fiction category and what better type of book do you need when on holiday?
I really need to start thinking about a post on Summer Reads. Now that’s a good idea. Whilst I’m thinking about that. What do you take on holiday to read?
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