Annotation:An entire family has been savagely murdered. The one surviving witness, the teenage son, has been traumatised, and cannot be asked about the killings. Strong-minded Detective Inspector Joona Linna persuades Erik Bark, a retired hypnotist, to enter the dark recesses of the boy Josef's damaged consciousness – and it soon becomes apparent that Josef played a markedly different role in the slaughter than originally believed. Soon, the reader is in very disturbing territory indeed.

Annotation:Adam has written a novel that features a character based on his college friend Rank, drawing from his life for fiction. This enrages Rank who feels that Adam has misrepresented him. Rank attempts to set the record straight by telling Adam, through the series of emails the true story of his life. This intended redress turns into a re-examination of Rank’s life and self as he is forced to come to terms with his own history, and to determine just where the line is drawn between how he is seen and who he actually is.

Annotation:Winter is still coming in “A Dance With Dragons,” as promised in “Thrones,” and the fates of the mythical continent of Westeros and its Seven Kingdoms are still up for grabs, as are the lives of dozens and dozens of heroes and antiheroes (and those wavering in between, waiting to turn their cloaks whichever way the winds of victory may blow). Most important for fans, “A Dance With Dragons” catches up with some of Mr. Martin’s most popular characters, including Daenarys Targaryen, queen of the city of Meereen and “mother” of three dragons; Jon Snow, 998th lord commander of the Night’s Watch; Arya Stark, 11-year-old daughter of the late Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell; and the disgraced Queen Cersei of House Lannister.

Annotation:A Good Man is the culmination of a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West. Vanderhaeghe skilfully weaves a rich tapestry of history with the turns of fortune of his most vividly and compellingly drawn cast of characters yet.

Annotation:Vying with "The Sisters Brothers" as the most winning title of the Canadian award season this is a book that deserves the accolades.Set in Baltimore, Berlin and Paris, Half-Blood Blues' storyline spans the period of the Great War to the 1990s, but centres on the months leading up to the occupation of Paris. It chronicles the increasingly deadly trials of an interracial jazz band in which the lead musician, a German of African descent, is arrested by the Nazis.