Dear FictionAddicts,
Five, Four, Three, Two, One!!!!, Happy (Not)So New Year!
(the year is already Seven days old but…). Does anyone wonder where the
holidays went so quickly…? Sigh. Now it’s back to the trenches, more goals to
set and more targets to meet and even more deadly deadlines.
I want to quickly say that I’m glad we made it into the new
year. It is my prayer that this year counts for you all in every positive way
possible. Great milestones achieved with less stress. May the grace of God be
more than sufficient for US all this year. Amen.
That said, this month we will read, The
Lying Game by Ruth Ware and The Guardians by John
Grisham.
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
The text message arrives in the small hours of the night.
It’s just three words: I need you.
Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads
straight to Salten. She spent the most significant of her life at boarding
school on the marshes there, days which still cast a shadow over her.
At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the
Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories.
Now after seventeen years of secrets, something terrible has been found on the
beach. Something which will force Isa to confront her past, together with the
three women she hasn’t seen for years but has never forgotten.
Theirs is no cozy reunion: Salten is not a safe place for
them. It’s time for the women to get their story straight…
Quotes from The Lying Game:
·
“A
lie can outlast any truth”.
· “A
wall, after all isn’t just about keeping others out. It can also be for
trapping people inside”.
The Guardians by John Grisham
In the small North Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer
named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The
killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one
with a motive. The Police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who
was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was framed, convicted and sent to prison
for life. For Twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no
advocate on the outside.
Then he wrote a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small innocence group founded by a lawyer/minister named Cullen Post. Guardian only handles a few innocence cases at a time and Post is its only investigator. He travels south fighting wrongful convictions and taking cases no one will touch. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for.
Then he wrote a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small innocence group founded by a lawyer/minister named Cullen Post. Guardian only handles a few innocence cases at a time and Post is its only investigator. He travels south fighting wrongful convictions and taking cases no one will touch. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for.
Powerful, ruthless people murdered Russo, and they do not
want Quincy exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they
will kill another without a second thought.
Quotes from The Guardian:
·
“Prison
is a nightmare for those who deserve it. For those who don’t it is a daily
struggle to maintain some level of sanity. For those who suddenly learn that
there is proof of their innocence yet remain locked up, the situation is
literally maddening”.
·
In
white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In
black America, they are too often used as warehouses to keep minorities off the
streets”.
· “Everything,
including education and corrections, is fair game from profiteers”.
You can download a copy of The Guardians, Here
Read
away fictionaddicts.
Much
Love,
FictionAddict.
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