Category: Book of the Week

New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan's electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack and more are planned.

While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault.

Electricity can be as lethal as it is vital, and Lincoln Rhyme soon finds he's up against a merciless killer with a unique weapon – one that can be found in everyone's home and office.

And in the meantime, the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have ever slipped Rhyme's net is under surveillance in Mexico. Lincoln Rhyme must race against the clock, juggling the two investigations, as they hurtle headlong toward their deadly outcomes.

The Burning Wire – Jeffrey Deaver 9780340937297
Hodder & Stoughton
9780857201706
TPB
R185.00

In the best-selling The Secret Rhonda Byrne revealed the law of attraction, now, with The Power, Rhonda Byrne continues her groundbreaking work as she reveals the single greatest force in our universe.

You are meant to have an amazing life! This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe – The Power to have anything you want.

Every discovery, invention and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power

The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realised, because The Power – to have everything good in your life – is inside you. To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing...The Power.

The Power – Rhonda Byrne
Simon & Schuster
9780857201706
HB
R210.00

When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, it's her poor relation Cat Tilney whom Katherine confides in.

Summoned to court at seventeen, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis, and the two begin their own love affair.

Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne for Katherine. The future seems assured for the new queen but allegations are made about her girlhood love affairs.

Desperately frightened, Katherine recounts a version of events which implicates Francis but which Cat knows to be a lie. With Francis in the Tower, Cat alone knows the whole truth of Queen Katherine Howard – but if she tells, Katherine will die.

The Confession of Katherine Howard – Suzannah Dunn
HarperCollins
9780007340347
TPB
R180.00

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential – for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business – and for Anthony Bourdain.

Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present.
Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.

Medium Raw – Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury
9781408809341
TPB
R190.00

Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at math, wicked sense of humour and extraordinarily organised. Jacob has Asperger's Syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis.

He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the police what they need to do… and he's usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him.

All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger's, like not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, and inappropriate affect, can look an awful lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel – and suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder.

House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how the legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way – but catastrophic for those who don't.

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House Rules – Jodi Picoult
Hodder
9780340979068
TPB
R185.00