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Mystery author Elizabeth George, whose most famed characters are the aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley and his rough-edged sidekick Barbara Havers, interestingly strays out of her genre for her top reads for summer vacation time.

Set in a sleepy Cape Cod village, this second novel from Tiffany Baker (The Little Giant of Aberdeen County) centres on the Gilly sisters: loner Jo, who has devoted her life to the family’s salt farm, and beautiful Claire, who seeks to escape at any cost.

Eli and Charlie Sister set out for a kill in 1850s San Francisco, quarreling along the way and questioning their immorality.

This Belleville Ont. native has 11 books and two CBC Canadian Literary Awards to her name

The winner of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize — Canada's most prestigious literary award — is back with her sophomore effort