Author: Ruth Rendall Publisher: Hutchinson Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 978-0-09-195385-0 Review By: Susan Woldenberg Butler Book Synopsis: A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When …
Author: Kirsty Murray Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2009 ISBN: 9781741757101 No of Pages: 252 Review By: Sarah Robinson Book Synopsis: It is 40 years into the future and the world is in turmoil. A plague has destroyed humans’ ability to conceive females, or so Callum thinks until he meets Bo. One girl – …
Author: Eleanor Catton Publisher: Granta Publications Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781847088765 Review By: Nita Jay Book Synopsis: Walter Moody, shaken by having seen a ghost in a storm at sea, enters the Victorian gold rush town of Hokitika. He happens upon a clandestine meeting of 12 men come together to explain strange happenings- deaths, disappearances-and …
Author: Lauren Beukes Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.” Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant …
Author: Maggie Groff Publisher: MacMillan Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781742611938 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Intrepid investigative journalist Scout Davis has given herself a holiday, but when Hermione Longfellow accosts her in the supermarket, she stops to listen. Most people in Byron Bay are aware of the eccentric Anemone sisters. Always dressed in black, …
Author: Denise Mina Publisher: Orion Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: 31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. Pimped out by her ‘boyfriend’ and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the …
Author: Fred Vargas Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781846555862 No of Pages: 360 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: ‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has …
Author: Sonya Hartnett Publisher: Penguin/Viking Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9 780670 076130 No of Pages: 266 Review By: Sue Nankervis Book Synopsis: Three children have been sent to live in the countryside safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make …
Author: Meg Gardiner Publisher: Michael Joseph (Penguin) Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9 781405 914567 No of Pages: 358 Review By: Sue Nankervis Book Synopsis: Sarah Keller is a young single mother living in Oklahoma with her five-year-old daughter, Zoe. Her day job is to hunt out people on the run and bring them to justice. …
Author: Pamela Burton Publisher: Melbourne University Press Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9870522862317 Review By: Jo McGahey Book Synopsis: Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit room in a run-down boarding house at 4.45 p.m on Monday 9 November 2009. By 6 p.m, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe’s in Randwick. He left behind …