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 …
Author: Kathy Reichs Publisher: William Heinemann Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. Who was the girl? And …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: It is the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands… and no hope. …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: It is the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands… and no hope. …
Author: Paula Hawkins Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cosy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their …
Author: June Wright, with introduction by Derham Groves Publisher: Verse Chorus Press Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that almost everyone, guests and staff alike, had good reason to shoot …
Author: June Wright Publisher: Verse Chorus Press Copyright Year: 1949 first published; 2015 re-issued with introduction and interview transcript by Lucy Sussex Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange, finds her married, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But …
Author: Kathy Reichs Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Ruth Wykes Book Synopsis: Tempe is faced with the horrifying possibility that the killer who got away in Monday Mourning is back…For a decade, Temperance Brennan has been haunted by the one who got away. The killer of young women. The monster. And the …