This sounds very different, but intriguing! It’s been a long, long wait for a new book from Catton, after her 2013 Booker-winning The Luminaries, which I loved.

Is he losing his mind? Which of the two of them is likely to kill someone?Ĭourtesy of Granta Publications via NetGalley. But why is Gil the only one who can see this? As Gil begins to follow Matthew around, his own behaviour becomes increasingly unstable. Matthew is clearly announcing his intentions to Gil, taunting him before he does something awful to his family. But when he disdainfully joins Gil’s writing classes at the local university, Matthew’s fiction shows a vivid and macabre imagination spilling onto the page. To the women in the family he is charming, intelligent, wry. He must leave his Upper East Side Manhattan life behind, to live with Gil, his wife and daughters in rural Vermont. Now seventeen, Matthew is orphaned when his parents die in a car crash. The signs were there early – on a family holiday Gil’s daughter was discovered nearly drowning at the bottom of a swimming pool, while Matthew looked on from the deck. A psychopath – but which of them is it? Gil knows his nephew Matthew is dangerous. A random pick based on the blurb, this one is getting pretty mixed reviews so I’m not sure how it will go. Haha, I’m still trying to decide whether they think Alex Jones is a great politician and war leader, or whether they think Churchill is a discredited crazed conspiracy theorist! I can cheerfully assert I will not be following their recommendation on this occasion!Īnyway, here’s a few more that should melt off my list soon… Psychological ThrillerĬourtesy of Serpent’s Tail via NetGalley. This week I felt they excelled themselves with this one… This week it has dropped by two (Hah! That’ll show you!) so it’s now 168!ĭo you ever look at Goodreads’ ‘because you’re reading this, you might enjoy this’ recommendations? They often leave me baffled as to whether their algorithm designer is… well… sober. Well, after being subjected to what can only be described as a horrific and traumatising co-ordinated campaign of online bullying in response to my trilogy question, I admit defeat – three it is.

The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood