Reading recommendations...
If you liked Constance Briscoe’s Beyond Ugly, you’ll love these uplifting and inspirational tales:
Behind Closed Doors, Jenny Tomlin
The mother of Martine McCutcheon tells her heartbreaking East end childhood memoir and triumph of the human spirit
Street Kid, Judy Westwater
From a Manchester orphanage to living on the street life of South Africa - an inspirational story, in which respect overtakes pity.
What’s on Richard North Patterson’s bedside table:
War and Peace, Tolstoy
A story of Russian aristocratic family life set against the backdrop of war, considered by many as the greatest novel ever written.
The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin
A Non-fictional account capturing the inside secret world of the Supreme Court.
The Foreign Correspondent, Alan Furst
Espionage novel set in pre-World War 2 Europe.
If you liked Peter James’ Not Dead Enough, you’ll love these who done its:
Piece of My Heart, Peter Robinson
The murder of a music journalist leads to an investigation through murky world of sex, drugs and a much more sinister side of Rock and Roll.
Gone to Ground, John Harvey
The tale of love, life, lust and corruption as detective Helen walker investigates the death of a gay academic.
Practical Homicide Investigations, Geberth Vernon J
The recognised protocol used by divisions of major police departments throughout the world.
If you liked Jeffrey Archer’s A Prisoner of Birth, you’ll love these legal thrillers
The Appeal, John Grisham
The tale of corporate crime at its deadliest
The Best Revenge, Stephen White
New evidence reveals a lifer is innocent of murder and leads to the question of whether revenge is ever really justified.
Books they wish they’d written:
Constance Briscoe –
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Jeffrey Archer –
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Peter James –
Slaughter House 5, Kurt Vonnegut