Quirky mysteries
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Every month, the library comes up with a booklist. The topics varies from subjects such as holiday activities to reading recommendations for teens. This month’s booklist is ‘Quirky mysteries’ - not your average mystery novels. Indeed it is, from a feng shui detective to solving cases about missing library books, this booklist is bound to satisfy all your mystery cravings!
The boy detective fails by Joe Meno
30-year old Billy Argo was a boy detective. Released from a mental institution, he attempts to unravel the mystery of his sister’s death and cope with life as a grown-up. The book shuffles between Billy’s memories of himself as a brillant sleuth, and his current experience with washed-up supervillians, headless bunnies and other curiosities. Surreal, and strange, yet ultimately heart-warming.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Lionel Essrog’s mentor is murdered. Lionel now has a killer to find. Lionel, ‘The Human Freakshow’ just hopes his Tourette’s doesn’t get in his way. Lethem ignites every page with crackling prose that startles like singeing synapses through frayed nerves. With maniac energy bristling throughout, this is a book shaking on the cusp of uncontrollable outburst — Read me! it screams.
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
Unravelling the layers of mystery this title leads one down a metafictional path, where solving the enigmas does not end the murders — it is quite literally the end of the book that does it. The narrative appears to be an ancient Greek mystery with footnotes by a translator. Be prepared to get implicated, for this book is acutely alive until one finishes the last page.
Death By Chick Lit By Lynn Harris
Who would have thought that the light, fluffy and saccharine world of modern-women fiction could have its own silly li’l life-threatening dangers? No one, until popular authors start getting “written off” (read: slaughtered) ‘chick-by-chick’… Seriously, this is, like, awesome and hilarious stuff beyond its snazzy title!
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