#5Books to read: Book recs

This week’s book recs include a mystery set in Tokyo, following a female cop as she investigates a serial killer, the dark web and a site linking everything together. It sounds fantastic, and is the first in the series. A crime involving a family and spanning 20 years grabbed me this week too as it follows what makes a psychopath, spanning 20 years of him escaping justice. There’s also a quirky story of an overachiever, who is Indian, who wants to get into Stanford. What follows is an exploration of her stepping outside her comfort zone. Another title I am excited about is set in Ghana and follows a good cop assigned to a part of the country notorious for illegal global mining. Naturally, he has his hands full investigating a murder. And last, there’s a fictionalised account of Samuel Beckett’s life in Paris by an author who has a knack for this sort of thing. Read on and you’ll see why I say that.

The Silent Dead: Reiko Himekawa is a 29-year-old lieutenant in Tokyo tasked with finding the killer behind the deaths of 11 people. That leads her to the dark web and a website that links the victims, but what interests me the most is that the blurb makes mention of how out of the ordinary she is because she has no political connections or family connections. She’s just very good at what she does. So, I want to know how that fits into her narrative as a whole.

All Things Cease to Appear: George Clare comes home to find his wife dead and his daughter left alone in the house. He has an alibi, but a cop firmly believes in his guilt. And the thing is, this is a game that continues for 20 years. How do you hide being a psychopath? How do you trip one up? Inquiring minds want to know. 

Enter Title Here: I found this over at Vibin’ with Books and fell in love with it! Reshma is an over-achiever who wants to get into Stanford. Through a stroke of luck and a well-written article, she lands a literary agent and sets about writing her book — about her life. Except, her life is boring, so she starts to explore life — the life she set aside for her studies. And that’s something I can relate to.

Gold of our Fathers:  This is the fourth in the Darko Dawson series, and Darko is now a chief inspector — who has just been promoted to an area where gold mines are being illegally exploited. On his second day on the job he has to investigate the death of a mine owner. Ghana. A good cop and his family thrown into a situation he didn’t ask for. 

A Country Road, A Tree: Jo Baker is the author of the acclaimed Longbourn, an account of the events of Pride and Prejudice from the POV of the servants, so she’s a talent at writing fiction based on something entirely different. Here she writes about Samuel Beckett’s life in Paris, during WW2 and his part in the Resistance. Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature… and you know his name. This sounds amazingly good!

So, that’s it. What’s got you interested this week?