Tara Moore – RSVP (Orion, £6.99) *****
The Granville family has lived at Carrickross, a huge estate in Ireland, for generations and is blessed with untold wealth.
Honoria, the 85-year-old matriarch and a real dragon, rules her son and six grandchildren with a rod of iron.
They do her bidding without question, as she holds the purse strings. The family appears to be ultra-respectable, but each member has a guilty secret.
It is time for the annual midsummer ball and who would have expected murder?
The body of a young beauty queen is found floating in the fountain with a garrotte around her neck.
This book kept me reading until five in the morning.
Betty Williams, 81, retired, Bradford
Irfan Master – A Beautiful Lie (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, £6.99) ***
This book highlights the enormous upheaval that took place on August 14, 1947, when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan came into being.
The partition of Hindus and Muslims resulted in a considerable loss of life, as families and friends were divided into opposite directions and the divisions still stand today.
Bilal was a boy whose father was slowly dying when tales of violence and unrest reached the village.
Bilal tried to protect his father from the momentous changes taking place by spinning a web of lies.
Margaret Jarvis, 78, retired, Wyke
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