The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Mark Haddon
Blurb: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is 15 and has Aspergers Syndrome, he knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists/patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own but when he finds a neighbours dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.


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We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin
Author: Lionel Shriver
Blurb: Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing.

Now a motion picture starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly.

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Blurb: My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven - which looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets, counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

Watching from her place in heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself.

But life is not quite finished with Susie yet....

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