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Suspects (July 2023)

By Lesley Pearse

July 13, 2023

Welcome to Willow Close, where everyone is a suspect…

On the day Nina and Conrad Best move into their new home in picture-perfect Willow Close a body is discovered.

Hurrying inside with their belongings, they see horrified neighbours gather by the police cordon – one of the residents has been attacked and brutally killed in the woods.

Believing someone must have seen the murderer, the police interview all the residents of the close.  They soon find out that each neighbour harbours their own secrets.

The residents of Willow Close are far from what they initially seem – and strange, even dark, things happen behind their closed doors.

Nina and Conrad had thought they’d found their dream neighbourhood.  But have they moved into a nightmare?

The Power of the Dog (July 2023)

By Thomas Savage

July 13, 2023

Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.  Phil is the bright one, George the plodder.  Phil is tall and angular, George is stocky and silent.  Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller, George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business.  They sleep in the same room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years.

When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother’s new wife.  But he fails to reckon with an unlikely protector.