Crime Fiction Reading Group

A Sherlock Holmes story perhaps?

Do you enjoy reading a good crime thriller and discussing the twists and turns of the plot? Would you like to try some different, non-mainstream authors? Then the new Crime Fiction Reading Group at Blaenavon World Heritage Centre and Library will be right up your street.

The group will meet every 4 weeks on Tuesdays 2.30–3.30pm, starting 27 September 2016.

The first book to be tackled will be “The Truth and Other Lies” by Sascha Arango. A renowned screen writer, this is Arango's first novel and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

From the outside, Henry Hayden has a perfect life. He's a famous novelist with more money than he can spend, a grand house in the country and a loyal, clever wife. But Henry has a dark side. If only the readers and critics who worship his every word knew that his success depends on a carefully maintained lie. A lie he will stop at nothing to protect.

He has been lucky, but one day his luck must surely run out, and he simply can't allow that to happen. In thrall to paranoia and self-interest, Henry makes a fatal error that could cause the whole dream to unravel and land him in the gutter, and despite his most Machiavellian efforts, events swiftly spin out of control as lie is heaped upon lie, menace upon menace. And it turns out that those around him have their secrets too....

Described by publisher Simon and Schuster UK as "page-turning, dark and with an anti-hero to rival Highsmith's Tom Ripley, international bestseller The Truth and Other Lies will have you gripped, second-guessing the line between truth and fiction". 

If this has whetted your appetite pop along to the first reading group meeting and pick up a copy. To book a place ask a member of staff or telephone 01495 742333.