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Oh, we know that this has always been a genre that’s done well, but Flynn’s best-selling novel has obviously resulted in a bigger-than-ever insurgence. And the book publishing industry has only been too happy to oblige.
Best of all, a good number of these mind-bendingly twisty reads that will be published this year are from female authors.
Yes, we’re familiar with favourites like Nicci French and Sophie Hannah, to mention but a few, there’s always room to familiarise yourself with more up and coming writers.
We’ve listed a few of the books that are being published this year and that we’re really looking forward to reading this year.
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train has recently hit the shelves and it’s already being touted as one of the best books of the year. The premise is deceptively simple:
Girl on Train observes couple every day. Couple seem perfect until girl sees something shocking that results in her going to the police. What happens next, causes everything to unravel.
A quote from the book: “A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told” - Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train.
2. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander-Essbaum
Another book that’s been receiving rave reviews is Jill Alexander-Essbaum’s Hausfrau.
Described as a literary psychological thriller, this book deals with what happens when one woman who has made a home in Zurich with her husband and children, struggles to connect and fit in with the world around her.
How she acts out in order to carve out a different life from the ennui she experiences, forms the basis of this novel.
The book will be out on March 17 in the US and March 26 UK. It should be available in SA in April.
3. Disclaimer by Renee Knight
What would you do if you were given a novel that kept you hooked, until you discovered that it was actually written about you and that it’s revealing a secret about yourself that you thought was long since buried?
Well, in Renee Knight’s Disclaimer, that is exactly what the protagonist of her story goes through. We can’t wait to read this one. We’re dying to find out what kind of secret could be so bad that someone has to write a book about it? Smells like revenge if you ask us.
This book is set to be released in May.
Described as being part urban legend and part psychological thriller, Dawn Kurtagich’s The Dead House is set to be published in August this year and employs the use of transcripts, diary entries and medical notes to recount a story of what happened when three people were killed and one pupil disappeared when a high school burned down.
Twenty five years later, a diary is found. The diary belongs to Kaitlyn Johnson, identical twin sister to the girl who disappeared. Except, Carly, the missing girl, has never had a twin.
Don’t know about you, but for me that’s a recipe for a must-read novel right there.
5. The Liar’s Chair by Rebecca Whitney
Rachel and David are a married couple who appear to have everything. Well, everything except love, that is.
When Rachel kills a man in a hit and run, David insists on destroying proof of the accident and carrying on as normal. But it’s not long before this leads to a path of self-destructive behaviour and the lines between light and dark become blurred.
This book is out right now and is available from Kalahari.com
6. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
“The truth is this: it doesn’t take any skill to almost-die, or to almost-live either.”
A book about two siblings whose relationship is irreparably damaged after an accident leaves one of the girls scarred. When Dara, the injured sister, goes missing on her birthday, no one thinks much of it at first.
It’s only when another and much younger girl goes missing, that Nick starts to believe that her sister’s disappearance could be connected to the nine-year old girl’s.
It’s up to Nick to search for answers, and in doing so, hopefully mend the rift between her and her sister before it’s too late.
The book has just been released.
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