New this week

New in paperback this week - Until the Night by Giles Blunt, a John Cardinal Mystery - this bestselling series, set in the town of Algonquin Bay (based on the author's hometown of North Bay) continues. A body in a motel parking lot, a missing lover, another body found frozen in the ruins of a hotel way back in the woods............ Lifetime by Liza Marklund - a new book from the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Writing. A police officer is murdered, his child has vanished, no one but a lone reporter believes in the innocence proclaimed by the dead man's wife. Will dangerous secrets be revealed in time to save this child....... Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara has just been re-issued. First published in 1934 this is a classic American novel of the Gatsby era and setting. Recommended by Will Schwalbe in The End of Your Life Book Club, now available again for all of us to read.

New in Hardcover Paris by Edward Rutherford - a great big door stopper of a novel. The history of the city of Paris opens in The Belle Epoque and follows several generations of families through the reign of Napoleon to the present day - and extraordinary tapestry of story.