Welcome to this week’s news, reviews, and ‘all-things-books’ latest from the team at Waterstone’s Ballymena!
This week’s Top 10 bestselling books…
1. Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle
2. Kala by Colin Walsh
3. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
4. Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
5. In a Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern
6. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J.Maas
7. The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden
8. The Wrong Sisters by Claire Douglas
9. Close to Home by Michael Magee
10. The Plot by Nadine Dorries
Saturday Storytime…
Our next Saturday Storytime takes place on Saturday 20th July at 12pm.
We will be reading The Dog who Danced on the Moon by John Boyne & Ashling Lindsay.
We look forward to seeing everyone there, and as always, we will have colouring in afterwards!
Our Best New Crime Releases…
• Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell
The first of an exciting series of Marvel Crime thrillers penned by major names in the genre, Breaking the Dark finds private eye and retired superhero Jessica Jones investigating the case of a pair of twins who have undergone a mysterious transformation.
• First Wife's Shadow by Adele Parks
The psychological thriller supremo returns with a nail-bitingly suspenseful dive into obsession and deep dark secrets, as Emma's new husband's fixation on his dead first wife threatens to turn deadly.
• The Exile by Patrick Worrall
The heart-pounding prequel to the acclaimed espionage thriller The Partisan finds the formidable Greta at the beginning of her journey into deadly danger and political intrigue, as the freedom fighter is tasked with finding a missing girl across the wasteland of postwar Europe.
Coming soon in crime fiction…
• Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
Releases 12.10.24
The twenty-fifth page-turning instalment in the mega-selling series from the king of tartan noir finds Inspector John Rebus embroiled in a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse, as he is forced to join the crowd of Edinburgh's deadliest criminals.
• Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh
Releases 1.08.24
Eddie Flynn returns in another pulsating legal thriller from the author of Kill for Me, Kill for You, as a twisted witness to a murder begins her own deadly game.