Books reviewed in March 2020

by David Howarth
The extraordinary true story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando who survived alone in the Arctic wilderness for months after a failed sabotage mission during World War II.

by Ian Rankin
The twenty-second Inspector Rebus novel: when a car is found deep in an Edinburgh wood with the body of private investigator Stuart Bloom in its boot and his ankles bound by police-issue handcuffs, a cold case more than a decade old reopens - and retired DI John Rebus, who worked the original botched investigation, finds himself implicated alongside DI Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox as the rot in that first inquiry comes to light.

by Loretta Nyhan
When Ally Anderson takes a DNA test to help diagnose her daughter Kylie's mysterious illness, she discovers she was adopted - and that her biological family has been out there all along, waiting to be found.

by Robert Dugoni
Twenty years ago, Tracy Crosswhite's younger sister Sarah vanished one summer night on a county road outside the small Cascade-mountain town of Cedar Grove, Washington; a recently paroled rapist named Edmund House was convicted on circumstantial and partly planted evidence and given a life sentence, Tracy and Sarah's grief-shattered father took his own life, and Tracy left Cedar Grove to become a Seattle homicide detective. When Sarah's remains are uncovered in the dam-flooded land outside town, Tracy comes home to reopen the case alongside her childhood friend Dan O'Leary - now a small-town lawyer - against the sheriff and prosecutor she has known her whole life.

by Dean Graziosi
Dean Graziosi argues that being an underdog is actually an advantage in achieving success, providing strategies for leveraging disadvantages and turning obstacles into opportunities.

by Alyson Noel
After her sister Zoe is murdered, Echo struggles with grief and family secrets while trying to understand who her sister really was and what led to her death.

by Brené Brown
Brené Brown explores the process of getting back up after failure, heartbreak, and disappointment, providing a research-based approach to resilience and emotional recovery.

by Brené Brown
Brené Brown explores true belonging and the courage to stand alone, examining how we can maintain our authenticity and values even when it means standing apart from groups or popular opinion.

by Mary Higgins Clark
TV producer Laurie Moran - whose husband was murdered five years ago in front of their three-year-old son by a killer the boy can only describe as 'Blue Eyes' - launches a true-crime show that reopens cold cases on camera, starting with the twenty-year-old suffocation of socialite Betsy Powell after her daughter's Graduation Gala; as the four women who were under that roof reunite for filming, both unsolved murders start moving toward the same ending.
9 books reviewed in March 2020