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Title: Where the sweet bird sings Author:  Ella Joy Olsen Published by: Kensington Books Publication date: 29 August 2017  Genre: General Fiction ISBN:   9781496705648 Mareli's rating: 3 stars Recommend to: Lovers of adult fiction that deals with loss and grief Description:  People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some try to move on. Some don’t move at all. A year after her young son’s death due to a rare genetic disease, Emma Hazelton is still frozen by grief, unable and unwilling to consider her husband Noah’s suggestion that they try to have another child. As the future Emma once imagined crumbles, her family’s past comes into sharp relief. Searching for the roots of her son’s disease, Emma tries to fit together the pieces in her genealogical puzzle. Hidden within an old wedding photograph of her great-grandparents is an unusual truth Emma never guessed at—a window into all the ways that love can be surprising, generous, and fiercely brave...

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins My rating: 3 of 5 stars A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm int...

Title: The Other Einstein Author: Marie Benedict Published by:  Sourcebooks Landmark Publication date:  18 October 2016  Genre:  Historical Fiction Pages: 304 ISBN:   9781492637257 Mareli's rating: 3 stars Recommend to:  Lovers of historical fiction and strong female characters Description:  A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the greatest scientists in history. What secrets may have lurked in the shadows of Albert Einstein’s fame? His first wife, Mileva “Mitza” Marić, was more than the devoted mother of their three children—she was also a brilliant physicist in her own right, and her contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated for more than a century. In 1896, the extraordinarily gifted Mileva is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zürich. There, she falls for charismatic fellow student Albert Einstein, who promises to treat h...

The devilish parts:  Title: Autumn in Oxford Author: Alex Rosenberg Published by: Lake Union Publishing Publication date:  30 August 2016  Genre: Women's fiction/Crime&Mystery/historical speculation Pages: 426 ISBN:   9781503939073   Mareli's rating:  3 stars Recommend to:  Crime&Mystery lovers with hints of historical speculation. Lovers of conspiracy theories might also enjoy this one. Description:  After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Tom Wrought escapes America’s Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When Liz’s husband is pushed in front of a train in the London Underground, Tom is immediately arrested for the murder. Scotland Yard is convinced it has its man, as he had means, motive, and opportunity. Certain of his innocence, Liz hires a young solicitor, Alice Silve...

"Disappearance of unpleasant English female dog fancier puts hubby on spot; law asks lots of questions"   - Quoted from  Saturday Review  25 April 1964 The devilish parts: Title: The Benefits of Death Author: Roderic Jeffries Published by: Endeavour Press Publication date: 24 June 2016 Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / General Fiction Pages: 176 (kindle) ISBN: 9781534893436   Description: There is no love lost between Charles Leithan and his wife, but with inheritance money at stake, neither will instigate divorce. So when she goes missing, the police are convinced he's responsible.  Endeavourpress Rating: 3 Stars Recommend to: Cozy mystery readers and fans of Midsomer Murders