New books by Peter Watt and Jeffery Deaver

The Library has received the latest book by Peter Watt; "The Frozen Circle". This novel begins in 1918, after the Great War, when two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in northern Russia. Following the Armistice, Sergeant Joshua Larkin is sent on a special mission deep into enemy territory in Russia. But when he is ordered to do the unthinkable, he must flee across Europe in order to protect a young woman, Maria, whose family has been executed. With Maria’s life under threat from all sides due to her imperial connections, nowhere is safe.

Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View. The discovery of the two skeletons poses problems for local policeman Morgan McLean. Who are the victims and why were they killed? Could the rumours of an heir to the Russian throne be true? And what explosive secret is Britain’s MI6 desperate to keep hidden by any means necessary? (http://www.peterwatt.com/australia.htm)

Peter Watt is an Australian author who says that he writes the kinds of books he does, which he describes as historically based action adventure, because he is fascinated with the human face of history. His books have been popular at the Library, so we think that lots of Gilgandra people have an abiding interest in finding out what it was like to live in times before ours.

The Library has also received the latest novel by Jeffery Deaver; "The bodies left behind". The story runs like this: it is a spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn and an unlikely ally – a survivor of the carnage – can survive only by fleeing into the dense, deserted woods, on a trek to safety and ultimately to the choice to fight back. The professional criminals, also strangers to this hostile setting, must forge a tense alliance too, in order to find and kill the two witnesses to the crime...
On his website, Jeffery Deaver says "Bodies" is filled with typical Deaver twists and turns, and takes place over a short period of time, but it also has one of the more shocking endings of any book I've ever written. Not gory or macabre, but I've been told it takes the breath away. I'm calling the novel "Thelma and Louise" meets "Deliverance." (http://www.jefferydeaver.com/)

We hope you enjoy whatever you are reading this week. And remember; Gilgandra Library wants to know who your favourite authors are! Over the month of November we are collecting the names of Gilgandra's favourite authors. To tell us who you like, either write the names on a slip of paper and drop it in the Box at the Library (picture below) or through the after hours book chute. Or you might like to make a comment on this blog, telling us the names of your favourite authors.

The Box at the Library