4 March, 2008: This week's book reviews,
by Carol Livingstone, as submitted for publication in the Tofield Mercury.

MY YEARS AS PRIME MINISTER, by Jean Chrétien

His own story, told with insight and humor, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister. Describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act and much more.

PROMISE NOT TO TELL: A Novel, by Jennifer McMahon

Thirty years ago Kate’s friend was brutally murdered, and now Kate’s past and present collide in terrifying and unexpected ways when she is drawn into the investigation of the murder of another young girl. A story of friendship and family, devotion and betrayal.

MISS KATIE’S ROSEWOOD: A Novel, by Michael Phillips

[Christian fiction] A Carolina Cousins book. At Rosewood Plantation, danger lurks everywhere. When Katie and Mayme, young women now, travel by train to Philadelphia only one of them arrives, and the KKK plans to burn Rosewood. The family must decide ­ save Rosewood - or themselves?

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