Author: Margie Orford Publisher: Atlantic Books Copyright Year: 2006 ISBN: 978 1 84354 943 7 No of Pages: 314 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler, Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial …
Author: Anna Haebich Publisher: UWA Publishing Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9781921401459 No of Pages: 208 Review By: Sharon Halasz Book Synopsis: Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother cause a furore in Perth in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, citizens demand her execution as …
Author: Leah Giarratano Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2010 Review By: Sylvia Loader Book Synopsis: Miriam Caine, aged seventy, is dining with her son when she bursts into flames in the restaurant of a five-star hotel. The restaurant’s manager, Troy Berrigan, is first to her aid, but the woman later dies of her injuries. When …
Author: H.M. Goltz Publisher: Atlas Productions Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780980753202 No of Pages: 500 Review By: Sylvia Loader Book Synopsis: You are playing a game online to create the perfect crime … or at least you think it’s a game … A web site inviting game players to mastermind the perfect crime is more …
Author: Y.A. Erskine Publisher: Random House Australia Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-74275-015-6 No of Pages: 381 Review By: Kylie Fox Book Synopsis: Set in Tasmania, Australia, The Brotherhood begins as a respected cop, Sergeant John White, is murdered during a routine callout. As the investigation unfolds through the eyes of the sergeant’s colleagues, friends, family, …
Author: Jennifer Rowe Publisher: Allen & Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-74237-583-0 No of Pages: 360 Price: $22.99 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: Holly Love’s in big trouble – she’s got to find the cheating swine who ripped her life apart, which turns out to be a huge mystery involving a gloomy old house, …
Author: Nicole Watson Publisher: University of Queensland Press Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-7022-3849-9 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane’s West End marked the city’s boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark. When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar development, the …
Author: Candace Sutton and Ellen Connolly Publisher: Allen & Unwin Review By: Tanya King Book Synopsis: Lady Killer is the impeccably researched account of the decade between the crime and conviction of conman, Bruce Burrell. Authors, Sutton and Connolly, are two Sydney journalists and writers. They have clearly had access to a range of sources, …
Author: Justine Larbalestier Publisher: Allen & Unwin Review By: Tanya King Book Synopsis: It is easy for many readers to dismiss young adult novels as being for children and therefore simplistic and unlikely to contain anything of interest to an adult. In the recent crop of young adult and children’s novels up for contention for …
Author: Debi Marshall Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2009 ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-74166-651-9 Review by Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy’s life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as “Australia’s answer to Hannibal Lecter,” award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of …