In our weekly look at books, we focus on Waterstones Thriller of the Month for August\u2026<\/p>\n
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore is a white-knuckle ride of a literary thriller that centres on the inscrutable Van Laar family and whether their odd reactions to the disappearance of two of their children hide a guilty secret.<\/p>\n
When their 13-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the family.<\/p>\n
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. Picture: Waterstones<\/p>\n
They’re cold, rich people. They own the camp, and it’s happened to them before.<\/p>\n
Fifteen years ago, their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace.<\/p>\n
Two children lost to the same wilderness.<\/p>\n
Is it a tragedy\u2026 or a crime?<\/p>\n
Top ten chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn:<\/p>\n
1. Sleepwalkers – Scarlett Thomas<\/p>\n
2. The Safekeep – Yael Van Der Wouden<\/p>\n
3. The Black Loch – Peter May<\/p>\n
4. Strange Houses – Uketsu, Jim Rion<\/p>\n
5. The Place of Tides – James Rebanks<\/p>\n
6. Rewitched – Lucy Jane Wood<\/p>\n
7. The Hotel Avocado – Bob Mortimer<\/p>\n
8. The Last Gift of The Universe – Riley August<\/p>\n
9. The God of the Woods – Liz Moore<\/p>\n
10. Supremacy – Parmy Olson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our weekly look at books, we focus on Waterstones Thriller of the Month for August\u2026 The God…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,957,53017,1767],"class_list":{"0":"post-74350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-kings-lynn","12":"tag-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}