Author: Justine Larbalestier Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: Kelpie and Dymphna are accustomed to the mean streets of 1930s Sydney, but this is a day that will test their courage, their loyalty, and their ability to survive both the ill-intentions of the living and the ever-presence of …
Author: Anna Jaquiery Publisher: Pan MacMillan Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Angela Savage and Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy – dynamic, well-connected – was the magnetic head of …
Author: Ann Turner Publisher: Simon and Schuster Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: Rebecca Wilding, an archaeology professor, makes sense of the past for a living. But suddenly, truth and certainty are turning against her. Rebecca is accused of serious fraud, and worse, she suspects – she knows– that her husband, Stephen, …
Author: Julie Szego Publisher: Wild Dingo Press Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Anne Bruist Book Synopsis: In 2010, nearly 18 months after Jama’s incarceration, his conviction was overturned when a mother’s profound faith in her son’s innocence, a prosecutor’s tenacious pursuit of truth and justice and a defence lawyer’s belief in his client, brought forth …
Author: Dolores Redondo Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling – the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm. The naked body of a teenage girl is …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left. Every day, Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiralling …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: Call your mother.’ ‘What do I say?’ ‘Say goodbye.’ This is how it begins. Lone women terrorised and their helpless families forced to watch – in a sick game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules change, …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: Life is strange for Patrick Fort; being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges–and that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder. Because the body Patrick is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell …
Author: Deirdre Verne Publisher: Midnight Ink Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: Cece dumpster dives her way through this suspense-filled murder mystery Cece Prentice is a most unusual young woman. Heiress to a large fortune thanks to her doctor father, who is the head of a genome company on Long Island, Cece …
Author: Renée Knight Publisher: Doubleday/Transworld Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: What if you realized the book you were reading was all about you? When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine’s bedside table, she curls up in bed and begins to read. But as she turns the pages she is sickened to …