BOOK CLUB
JUNE BOOK CLUB
JUDGE STONE
BY JAMES PATTERSON AND VIOLA DAVIS
BY CHARIS TORRANCE
WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
BY FREIDA MCFADDEN
The queen of suspense, Freida McFadden, returns with a gripping new thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson seems to have it all: a wildly popular YouTube channel, April’ s Sweet Secrets, a handsome lawyer husband, Elliott, and a young son, Bob. She knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies and how to make key lime squares that melt in your mouth. But if you look beyond the camera, and you’ ll discover other secrets April would rather keep hidden.
Because everyone has secrets. Some of them are harmless. Some are devastating. And April’ s secrets could destroy everything she’ s built.
Bestselling thriller author James Patterson and Academy Awardwinning actress Viola Davis unite to deliver an unforgettable courtroom drama and one of the most compelling characters in recent memory. All rise for Judge Stone.
In the small town of Union Springs, Alabama, Judge Mary Stone is both the town’ s most respected citizen and its moral compass. She balances two sacred duties: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. But everything changes when she is assigned the most controversial case in Southern history: that of a doctor accused of secretly performing an abortion for a 13-year-old girl. No judge can satisfy everyone. To try would be dangerous. Yet how can justice be served when every possible answer feels wrong?
FLYING COWS AND OTHER TRAUMAS
BY PHILISIWE TWIJNSTRA
In Flying Cows and Other Traumas, readers are transported into surreal, unsettling worlds where the ordinary is disrupted by strange and malevolent forces. Set against the backdrop of Black South African townships and reimagined African kingdoms, each story follows a protagonist who must face violence, oppression, and fear – only to rise above them with resilience and strength.
Twijnstra’ s storytelling is spellbinding, weaving together the magical and the terrifying to illuminate women’ s endurance in the face of trauma. The result is a collection that is both haunting and empowering.
100 INBOUND SA / JUNE 2026