Top books of 2012

It's that time of year again, these are in
no particular order
NF = non fiction
SF = sci fi
YA = young adult
Everything else is mystery

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley SF
Dublin Dead by Gerard O'Donovan
The Yard by Alex Grecian
Drift by Rachel Maddow NF
Luther The Calling by Neil Cross
The Key by Simon Toyne
Quiet by Susan Cain NF
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein YA
Hand for a Hand by T Frank Muir
Black Fridays by Micheal Sears
Garment of Shadows by Laurie King

Honourable mention

Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost YA

Apologies for the formatting, using a new app. Any mistakes will be fixed in post production. Happy New Year

Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See, Juliann Garey

Studio exec Greyson Todd is bipolar, a fact he’s successfully managed to hide from the industry because they don’t let people with ‘that disease’ run multi million dollar movie studios.

Greyson recounts his life before and after the night he left his wife and child and embarked on an odyssey that gave full rein to his bipolar nature. An odyssey that led to the ECT treatment he’s currently undergoing. A twelve shock program that might make him whole again or burn what remains of him away completely.

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst, Anne Holt

Oslo is in the grip of a heatwave and a crimewave.

Hanne Wilhelmsen, half-buried under a stack of cases finds connections between a series of brutal assaults on young Norwegian women and the weird ‘Saturday night massacres’ which most of her department consider to be a sick prank. Someone is going down for their crimes, permanently.

The Valley of Unknowing, Philip Sington

When the Berlin wall went up it may as well have frozen East Germany in time. No one speaks out against socialist ideals because state security has informers everywhere. Life is hard, and dirty and short if you get caught saying the wrong thing.

In this choking climate Bruno Krug, author of The Orphans of Neustadt falls for Austrian music student Teresa. He is also reading a manuscript as a favour to his editor. This work has no title or author and not only is it disturbingly good, but it echoes Krug’s earlier book.

When the person Krug thinks is the author dies suddenly Krug has the book smuggled to the West where the book and Krug’s protégé take on a life of their own. But who really wrote The Valley of Unknowing? How many more lies and betrayals will it spawn?