summer reads

Bestselling author Penny Vincenzi shares her picks of books she thinks will make great summer reads — a tantalizing and wide-ranging list.

The author of the Tom Thorne crime novels casts his thoughts to the perfect summer reads for Chatelaine readers; not surprisingly, perhaps, they’re books that go down dark paths where evil lurks in the shadows…

When this Irish author isn’t writing herself, here are the books she’s looking forward to reading and would recommend to others

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.

Best-selling author Maeve Binchy specializes in heartwarming stories about life in small-town Ireland. Here she shares with us her favourite books to get lost in over the summer holidays.