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by Candice Fox Publisher: Bantam Year: 2017 Reviewer: Sue Turnbull (Review originally published on 8 February 2018 in The Sydney Morning Herald) Redemption Point picks up where Crimson Lake left off. Former policeman and suspected paedophile Ted Conkaffey is still hiding out in a crocodile-infested swamp in the far north accompanied by his adopted family of geese. We know …
by Alafair Burke Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication year: 2018 Synopsis When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. The marriage meant a fresh start, a …
by Holly Seddon Publisher: Atlantic Books Year: 2017 Synopsis Holly and Sarah are twins. Not identical twins, in fact, not even vaguely similar, yet they love each other dearly. That is until their family is torn apart by an almost unimaginable domestic drama. Now in their 30s, the sisters have lost contact. Robin’s career …
by Lois Murphy Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing Year: 2017 Synopsis An almost deserted town in the middle of nowhere, Nebulah’s days of mining and farming prosperity – if they ever truly existed – are long gone. These days even the name on the road sign into town has been removed. Yet for Pete, an ex-policeman, …
by Ann Cleeves Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia 2017 Synopsis The Seagull is Ann Cleeves’ searing eighth novel in the Vera Stanhope series, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships. A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanthorpe face to face with an old enemy: …
by Anne Buist Publisher: Text Published: 2018 Synopsis Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children’s court. A custody dispute. Not her usual territory, but now that she’s pregnant she’s happy to do a simple consult. Turns out Jenna and Malik’s break-up is anything but simple. He claims she’s crazy …
2016 Echo Publishing Reviewer: Anne Buist Overview: Megan Norris is a journalist who has written a number of true crime books, including one on the father in the dam story – the Robert Farquharson murders of his three sons, though from his wife Cindy Gambino’s perspective rather than the view Helen Garner took in …
Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2017 Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, 2017 Longlisted, Indie Book Award for Non-fiction, 2018 Synopsis Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife… But as a little boy, raised in violence …
Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2017 RRP: $29.99 Synopsis It was supposed to be just a short holiday… but when Cassy is lured to an idyllic valley called Gethsemane it’s years before her friends and family see her again. Can her family rescue her before it’s too late? A dazzling, gripping new novel about …
Author: Nelika Mcdonald Publisher: Pan Macmillan Copyright Year: 2017 Synopsis Beth had known there were secrets folded inside Theo. But she didn’t know they were secrets about her. It’s always been just Beth and her mother Theo. Until Beth is sixteen years old, and a stranger arrives in their small coastal town – a stranger …