Richard Wisden is a television celebrity. He has his own garden shows and is very popular. So why would he commit suicide in a hotel room? A question Libby Wisden is desperate to answer. In fact, she doesn’t believe he killed him self, she is convinced her late husband was murdered. Determent and wealthy as she is, she hires different people (a detective, doctor, photographer to name a few) to figure out specific facts and insights concerning Richard’s death. Not an easy task, because along the way secrets, lies and unknown truths come to light and Richard’s life turns out to be as knotted as his gardens.

Geoff Nicholson delivered a strange but compelling plot yet again. Every character, with his or her own voice, takes the reader by the hand and doesn’t let go. With ease you will be taken through a very strange, twisted and sometimes disturbing labyrinth called human life.

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Eric has a great idea: going on holiday with his wife and two teenage children. The children will be leaving the nest soon and Eric wants one last vacation with all four of them together as a family. So off they go to the Trallee and caravan park. Eric decides to keep a journal of this last trip with his whole family to keep the good memories for future times. What Eric didn’t know was that all the things he has to write in his journal aren’t happy times, but are situations that go from bad to worse. And just when he thinks there isn’t any worse to come, he gets disappointed again, because there seems to be no limit to what he has to endure. It surely turns out to be a hell of a vacation!

Nicholson has written a very black comedy. Now, I’m a person who can see the humor in it, even when sometimes the story gets too ridiculous in misery, but I guess this book isn’t for every one.

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Mike Smith is a handsome but rather talentless creature. After his university days he works at a bookstore as an archivist, when a guy he knows from college, Gregory Collins, has an announcement. He has written a book, but wants Mike’s photo to go on the back cover. Mike is not too enthusiastic about the idea, but after Gregory convinces Mike that it would be a good joke, he agrees. When Gregory is then invited to do a book reading and Mike has to pretend to be him, the ball really starts rolling. He gets the opportunity to be assigned as a writer-in-residence in a mental institution and after discussing this with Gregory, he accepts the position. And while being there with the strange patients and even stranger staff, the plot thickens and thickens until finally the bomb explodes.

A great read. It really has everything a reader (meaning I) wants in a book: great story, interesting characters, depth, suspense and some humor. And all of that in a perfect mix.

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