Author: Jennifer Hillier Publisher/Year: Corvus (An imprint of Atlantic Books)/2018 Publisher Synopsis Aged just 16, Geo’s best friend Angela disappeared without a trace. Years later, Angela’s body is discovered in the woods near Geo’s childhood home, revealed as yet another victim of the notorious serial killer Calvin James. Geo’s high-school boyfriend. For fourteen years, Geo …
Author: Candice Fox Publisher/Year: Penguin/2019 Publisher Blurb Crimson Lake is where bad people come to disappear – and where eight-year-old boys vanish into thin air . . . On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the …
Author: Kirsten Alexander Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2019 Publisher Blurb ‘They said he was their boy. And so he was . . .’ In 1913, on a summer’s day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy’s mysterious disappearance from the family’s lake house makes front-page …
Author: Fiona McIntosh Publisher/Year: Penguin Random House Australia/2019 Publisher Blurb A spate of seemingly unconnected murders in southern England prompt a high-profile taskforce to be formed and led by DCI Jack Hawksworth, one of the Force’s new rising stars who combines modern methods with old-school instincts. The victims appear as disparate as their style of …
Author: Lynda La Plante Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2019 Publisher Blurb Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella are back. And this time it’s a fight to the finish. The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking thriller, Widows. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull …
Author: Andrea Bartz Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster/2019 Publisher Blurb Edie was once the shining star in her 20-something circle in New York’s coolest neighbourhood. Like Andy Warhol’s muse, the seductive, beguiling and mercurial party girl had the social world in her thrall. Every girl wanted to be Edie, every boy wanted her, and she and …
Authors: Sue Smethurst and Margaret Harrod Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster/2019 Publisher Blurb A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart. There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can’t be put into …
Author: Jennifer Spence Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster/2019 Publisher Blurb: A haunting tale of love and loss that will make you think twice. What would you do if you had the chance to change a pivotal moment from your past? How far would you go to save someone you loved? These are just two of the fateful …
Author: Jennifer Lane Publisher/Year: Clan Destine Press/2019 Publisher Blurb A girl called Gracie. A town called Coongahoola – on the dark foreboding Bagooli River. Every small town has its secrets: good, bad, funny, sad – and sometimes terrifying. They’re mythologised and whispered-about by town gossips and other grown-ups until something happens to snap the past …
Author: Susan Hurley Publisher/Year: Affirm/2019 Publisher blurb A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents a drug that could transform immunology. Eight volunteers are recruited for the first human trial, a crucial step on the …