![]() ![]() ![]() Life has not turned out so well for them, given that one woman committed suicide many years ago and a second has now been murdered. There’s something particularly creepy about a baby doll at a crime scene. Two decades earlier, she, Dina and two other glamorous university friends in Tel Aviv formed a group with a radical founding principle: They would never become mothers. Sheila, a 41-year-old museum tour guide specializing in the childless women of the Bible, is the book’s snarky, unreliable narrator. ![]() “There you have it, Dina, you’re finally a mother,” thinks Sheila, an old frenemy of the victim. To add to the macabre nature of the opening tableau in THE OTHERS (Mulholland, 233 pp., $28), by the Israeli author Sarah Blau, the word “mother” is scrawled in blood-red lipstick on the corpse’s forehead. There’s something singularly creepy about a baby doll at a crime scene, particularly when glued to the cold dead hands of a feminist scholar known for her vow never to have children. What better way to relax during the coming months than with a stack of juicy thrillers? Here you will find murders, ghosts, psychological intrigue, legal disputes and domestic dramas - a book for every mood. ![]()
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