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Review: LIFE OR DEATH, Michael Robotham
review copy courtesy publisher Hatchette Australia on Net Galley Available for pre-order from Amazon ISBN: 9780751552898 Publication date: 29 Jul 2014 (Australia), 12 Aug 2014 (US) Page count: 464...
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Review: THE CARTOGRAPHER, Peter Twohig
first published in Australia by Harper Collins Publishers 2012 ISBN 978-0-7322-9316-1 source: library book 386 pages Synopsis (author site) An eleven-year-old boy witnesses a violent crime. Just one...
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Review: THE LOST GIRLS, Wendy James
format: Kindle (Amazon) File Size: 956 KB Print Length: 268 pages Publisher: e-penguin (February 26, 2014) Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC Language: English ASIN: B00H8ARVG6 Synopsis (Amazon) From...
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Review: FATAL LIAISON, Vicki Tyley
audible book available from Audible.com review copy courtesy the author Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins Format: Unabridged Release date May 2014, from Crossroad Press Synopsis...
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Review: IN THE MORNING I’LL BE GONE, Adrian McKinty
first published in 2014 This edition published by Serpent’s Tail 2014 ISBN 978-1846688201 326 pages #3 in the Sean Duffy Trilogy borrowed from my local library Synopsis (publisher) The third book in...
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Awards news in Aussie crime writing
While I was busy being knocked flat by a killer virus (OK it didn’t actually kill me, I just wished it would for a while) in the past few weeks both our major awards for crime writing announced their...
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More awards news in Aussie crime writing
Adrian McKinty’s IN THE MORNING I’LL BE GONE was announced last night as the winner of this year’s Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime novel. It is a brilliant novel about which I have previously...
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Review: QUICK, Steve Worland
format: Kindle (Amazon) File Size: 1041 KB Print Length: 340 pages Publisher: e-penguin (August 27, 2014) Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC Language: English ASIN: B00L4T1UHS source: publisher review...
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Review: A FATAL TIDE, Steve Sailah
review copy courtesy Net Galley ISBN 9780857984500 published by Random House Australia 2014 Synopsis (Net Galley) A powerful novel set in Gallipoli, that’s part war-story and part mystery. ‘Amid...
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Review: A MURDER UNMENTIONED by Sulari Gentill
The problem with having read, loved and reviewed the five previous instalments of Sulari Gentill’s wonderful series of crime novels set in 1930′s Australia (and beyond) is that I am running out of...
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Review: ANTIDOTE TO MURDER, Felicity Young
first published by Harper Collins 2013 ISBN 978-0-7322-9369-7 325 pages #2 in the Dody McLeland series source: my local library Synopsis (publisher) Set in Edwardian London, this fantastic mystery...
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Review: TELL ME WHY by Sandi Wallace
Georgie Harvey is a Melbourne-based writer who starts looking for a possibly missing elderly woman from the nearby country town of Daylesford as a favour to a friend. In that town John Franklin, one of...
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Review: WHAT CAME BEFORE by Anna George
Even if you’re only vaguely aware of the Australian literary scene you’d be hard pressed not to have seen or heard something about WHAT CAME BEFORE over the past few months. A debut novel by Melbourne...
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Review: MASTERMIND, Helen Goltz
source: review copy from author this edition published by Atlas Productions 2014 ISBN 978-0-9807532-0-2 420 pages #1 in the Mitchell Parker series Synopsis (author website) You are playing a game...
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Review: WEB OF DECEIT, Katherine Howell
first published by Pan Macmillan Australia 2013 #6 in the Ella Marconi series ISBN 978-1-7426-1030-6 source: my TBR Synopsis (Pan Macmillan Australia) When paramedics Jane and Alex encounter a man...
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Review: THE LYING-DOWN ROOM by Anna Jaquiery
I’m including Anna Jaquiery’s THE LYING-DOWN ROOM as part of my Australian Women Writers Challenge reading even though it is set in France and the author has lived just about everywhere. But she lives...
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Review: HADES, Candice Fox
first published by Bantam (Random House Australia) 2014 source: my local library ISBN 978-0-85798-117-2 308 pages winner Best First Fiction, Ned Kelly Award, 2014 Synopsis (Random House Australia) A...
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Review: PRESENT DARKNESS by Malla Nunn
When PRESENT DARKNESS opens we are in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of 1953. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper is one of the police called to the home of a white school principal. He and his...
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Review: DISHONOUR by Gabrielle Lord
Of late, the woman variously labelled the queen or godmother of Australian crime writing has concentrated her publishing efforts on a popular series of novels for young adults but was prompted last...
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Review: MEDEA’S CURSE, Anne Buist
first published by Text Publishing Melbourne 2015 ISBN 9-781922-182647 366 pages source: my local library Synopsis (publisher) Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of...
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