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Author: Kerry Greenwood Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Now that flapper sleuth Miss Fisher is well advanced in her second series on ABC television, it’s salutary to ponder how her parallel career in crime fiction is travelling. This is not the first time an established crime writer has had to negotiate the …
Author: Angela Savage Copyright Year: 2013 No of Pages: 339 Review By: Sue Turnbull and Maggie Baron Book Synopsis: Sue Turnbull Review The politics of race and place are up front and centre in Angela Savage’s third crime novel to feature Australian private investigator, Jayne Keeney. Picking up where the Bangkok-based Jayne’s previous case left her, on the precarious …
Author: LA Larkin Publisher: Pier 9 an Imprint of Murdoch Books Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781741967890 Review By: Jo McGahey Book Synopsis: Thirst is L.A . Larkin’s second book, and like her first, The Genesis Flaw, it is a thriller written with an environmental theme. The time frame for this book is ‘a few years from now… ‘ and it is …
Author: Karen M. Davis Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia ISBN: 9781922052520 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Karen Davis’s first novel is a romp through bikie hierarchy and cultures with many a twist and turn that keeps the reader’s interest. Action begins with the self immolation of a young woman as Detective Lexie Rogers and her partner, Detective Sergeant Brad …
Author: Honey Brown Publisher: Penguin / Michael Joseph Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781921901539 Review By: Angela Savage and Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: I’ll admit upfront that I think Honey Brown is one of the best writers of psychological thrillers in Australia today. Her latest novel Dark Horse only confirms my good opinion of her work. Dark Horse opens Christmas morning as …
Author: Lindy Cameron, Editor Publisher: Five Mile Press Copyright Year: 2009 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: Outside the Law 3 brings together another collection of true crime stories which, this time, as Lindy Cameron explains in her introduction, largely fall into two categories: “the appalling abuse or tragic loss of children; and the life and times of Australia’s big- …
Author: Christine Nixon Publisher: Victory Books Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: I have to declare upfront that I served under Christine Nixon for the entire time she was Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, and I now count her among my close friends. I was overseas when Fair Cop was released so did not get around to …
Author: Annie Hauxwell Publisher: Penguin Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: This is the second book in the Catherine Berlin series and after reading the first -In Her Blood- I really couldn’t wait to see what trouble Berlin had managed to get herself into this time and more importantly how she survived her adventures. She may not …
Author: Annie Hauxwell Publisher: Michael Jospeh and Imprint of Penguin Books Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: For a first time author Annie Hauxwell has shown an amazing maturity in the crime genre. I was enthralled from the first page when Catherine Berlin “gazes down at the blue flesh swaying in the grey water’ to the last …
Author: Sue Williams Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Ann Byrne and Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: “If you wanted to hide somewhere there’s no way I’d choose Rusty Bore. A hundred and forty seven residents and everyone single one of them watching. No one here forgets. Especially your mistakes” Rusty Bore is a fictious place, somewhere north of …