Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last (Sept. 29)
Several years after the world's brutal economic collapse,
Stan and Charmaine, a married couple struggling to stay afloat, hear about the
Positron Project in the town of Consilience, an experiment in cooperative
living that appears to be the answer to their problems - to living in their
car, to the lousy jobs, to the vandalism and the gangs, to their piled-up debt.
There's just one drawback: once inside Consilience, you don't get out. After
weighing their limited options, Stan and Charmaine sign up, and soon they find
themselves involved in the town's strategy for economic stability: a pervasive
prison system, whereby each citizen lives a double life, as a prisoner one
month, and a guard or town functionary the next. At first, Stan and Charmaine
enjoy their newfound prosperity. But when Charmaine becomes romantically
involved with the man who shares her civilian house, her actions set off an
unexpected chain of events that leave Stan running for his life.
Robert Galbraith's Career of Evil - the third Cormoran
Strike novel written by J. K. Rowling (Oct. 20)
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott,
she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike,
is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who
he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is
capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure
is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and
delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more
horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them.
Jussi-Adler Olsen's The Hanging Girl - the sixth Department Q mystery
(Sept. 8)
Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a
call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is
dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few
hours later, he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong
assistant Rose more furious than usual. Carl has no choice but to lead
Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious seventeen-year-old girl
who vanished from school, only to be found dead hanging high up in a tree. The
investigation will take them from the remote island of Bornholm to a strange
sun worshipping cult, where Carl, Assad, Rose, and newcomer Gordon attempt to
stop a string of new murders and a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anything—or
anyone—get in the way.
(All descriptions from http://www.amazon.ca/)
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