And Fire Came Down

Author: Emma Viskic Publisher/Year: Echo Publishing  2017   Publisher Synopsis Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours. But when a young woman is killed after …

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Accidental Death? when things may not be as they seem

Author: Robin Bowles Publisher/Year: Scribe/2018 Publisher Synopsis: This collection of stories centres on the idea of ‘accidental death’, and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all. Some were crimes. Some …

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The Prisoner

Author: Kerry Tucker with Craig Henderson Publisher/Year: Penguin Random House/2018 Publisher Synopsis: Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she had a terrible secret: she had been stealing money from her employers. When her offence was discovered it was reported to be the biggest white-collar crime committed by a female …

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The Escape Room

Author: Megan Goldin Publisher/Year: 2018   Publisher Synopsis In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they’ll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them …

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The Sunday Girl

Author: Pip Drysdale Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster (Aus.), 2018 Publishers Synopsis Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as the wind always does, you are different; you have a new direction. And …

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Under Your Wings

Author: Tiffany Tsao Publisher/Year: Penguin/Viking 2018  Publisher Synopsis Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, powerful and sometimes treacherous family, they’ve relied on each other for support and confidence. Now, though, Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of their …

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Evil Under the Stars

Author: C.A. Larmer Publisher/Year: Larmer Media 2018 Synopsis The champagne is flowing, the movie is showing, and a killer is lurking just blankets away… When the Agatha Christie Book Club reunite to watch Evil Under the Sun at a moonlight cinema, they quickly find themselves face-to-face with evil under a star-lit sky. A woman has …

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Corpse Light

Author: Angela Slatter Publisher/Year: Jo Fletcher Books 2017 Publisher Synopsis Verity’s all about protecting her city, but right now that’s mostly running surveillance and handling the less exciting cases for the Weyrd Council – after all, it’s hard to chase the bad guys through the streets of Brisbane when you’re really, really pregnant. An insurance investigation sounds …

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And Fire Came Down

Author: Emma Viskic Publisher/Year: Echo Publishing  2017   Publisher Synopsis Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours. But when a young woman is killed after …

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The Dinosaur Feather and The Arc of the Swallow

The Dinosaur Feather Publisher/Year: Quercus, 2015 The Arc of the Swallow Publisher/Year: riverrun, 2016 Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan   Reviewer: Robyn Walton The Dinosaur Feather, Sissel-Jo Gazan’s breakthrough crime fiction novel, was first published in Denmark in 2008 as Dinosaurens fjer. It was very well received in the Nordic region, being hailed as Danish Crime Novel …

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