Archive for May 20th, 2009

Sarah Tucker’s seventh novel, The Control Freak Chronicles, is released on June 18th and the synopsis reads:

At forty-four, Helena Treadwell thought she had everything sorted. After divorcing her control freak ex, Leonard Wallis, she and her nine-year-old son, Freddie, relocated to her home town of Castleford. She’s made a happy home for them and has a successful career as a radio presenter. Finally she feels she’s clawing back the control and confidence she lost to Leonard. But life is never simple for long …Helena unexpectedly loses her job and Leonard announces that not only does he want Freddie to attend a private boarding school, he’s also decided to move to Castleford to set up home with ‘the other woman’. Suddenly Helena’s losing control again, as her past comes back to unravel her future.

I haven’t read any of Sarah’s novels but I’ll be sure to pick one up if I see one.

Sarah Sargeant has been single for a while, and its beginning to worry everyone, even her mum and dad. So Sarah decides to embarke on a challenge to find 50 Ways to Find A Lover.

With the help of her best friend Julia and flatmate Simon, she goes speed dating, blind dating and various other disastrous ways to find a man, all with no luck. Sarah feels she is destined to spend her life alone, but is that about to change with the arrival of suave Paul?

But as well as finding herself a man, Sarah’s obssesed with updating her blog about her dating escapades, but is her online life becoming more important than her day-to-day one?

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Lisa Lutz came to attention last year with her debut novel The Spellman Files which I have on my bookshelf to read at the moment. She is back this year with the follow-up to that book called Curse of the Spellmans and it looks to be another great book to add to our summer reads list. Here’s the synopsis:

“When private investigator Izzy Spellman is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as an occupational hazard. She’s been keeping surveillance on her new next-door neighbour (suspect’s name: John Brown), convinced he’s up to no good - even if Spellman Investigations management (Izzy’s parents) disagree. When the displeased management refuse to bail her out, it’s Morty, Izzy’s octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defence, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and pastrami sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth - as only she, a licensed 30-year-old professional, can. ”

It looks like a funny book, and is published on 3rd August 2009 so look out for it in the shops then!