Six Degrees of Separation - February 2023

First Friday of the month, so time for #6degrees of separation, hosted by Kate over at Books are my favourite and best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.

The first book on the chain is ‘Trust’ by Hernan Diaz which I haven’t read. It’s set in the 1920’s about a Wall Street tycoon and a wealthy and influential family. I immediately made a connection with the character of Vincent, who was involved with a wealthy investor called Jonathan Alkaitis who ran an international Ponzi scheme. That book was…

‘The glass hotel’ by Emily St. John Mandel. Vincent works as a bartender in the glass hotel of the title, before she meets Alkaitis. The hotel plays an important part in the book, as it does in…….

‘The moonflower murders’ by Anthony Horowitz. Susan Ryeland returns to Branlow Hall in Suffolk to investigate a fairly gruesome murder. There’s also a gruesome murder (or two) in…..

‘The Shards,’ the recent release from Bret Easton Ellis. The protagonist is concerned about a serial killer who seems to be moving closer to his circle of friends. It’s too easy to make the connection between LA and serial killers and

‘Fair warning’ by Michael Connelly, where the reporter Jack McEvoy is also on the trail of a serial killer in LA known as ‘The Shrike,’ who is named after a songbird that impels it’s prey on sharp objects. Nice, and another easy jump for me to make to…

‘Songbirds’ by Christy Lefteri, a book about a migrant worker called Nisha who had left Sri Lanka for Cyprus nine years earlier, and simply vanishes one day. The perilous journey of the migrant worker is also a feature of…..

‘North to Paradise’ by Ousman Umar, the inspirational story of how the narrator travels from a remote Ghanian village to Europe, a journey that takes five years.

That’s it for another month.