After reading the article Wendy wrote for this edition of the newsletter, I realised that there is one more of these mystery-reality collisions which is very much in the forefront of our stock at the moment. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, would not be something that we would normally have had in our old space, but the demand we had for it upon its release has meant we have kept a few copies to hand. However, the realities of that book are being paralleled in a number of recent books, from the only recently announced The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous to Jake Tapper's Hellfire Club this past spring. While Bill Clinton and James Patterson wrote a relatively down the line thriller for The President is Missing, and Tapper, as well as Murder in the Lincoln White House author C.M. Gleason kept their works ensconced in the past, it is the anonymous author of The Kingfisher Secret that has really gone all in on what is happening down south. Keeping their quiet to protect their identity, the author has written the "speculative" notion that perhaps some of the rumors surrounding the current White House are true...

Of course, if you are looking for a reprieve from the churning thriller plot lines of our southern neighbours, why not the nostaglia of the previous administration Hope Never Dies, the Joe Biden as detective novel by Andrew Shaffer, is light, fun and pleasant, if a little on the nose.