Title: The Girl with All the Gifts
Author: M. R. Carey
Genres: Thriller
Pages: 460
Rating: ★★★★1/2

Synopsis:

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.”

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh.

Title: The Widow
Author: Fiona Barton
Genres: Thriller
Pages: 324
Rating: ★★★1/2

Synopsis:

A loving husband or a heartless killer…she’d know, wouldn’t she?

There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with accusing glares and anonymous harassment. Now her husband is dead, and there’s no reason to stay quiet. People want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.