Author: Anna Snoekstra Publisher/Year: HQ Fiction/2018 Publisher Synopsis Getting even is a long game… Mercilessly bullied in high school, Ava knows she needs to put the past behind her and move on, but she can’t – not until she’s exacted precise, catastrophic revenge on the people who hurt her the most. First, she watches Saanvi. …
Author: Megan Abbott Publisher/Year: Picador 2018 Publisher Synopsis You told each other everything. Then she told you too much. Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achieving everything she wanted. She hasn’t let anything stop her. But now someone else is standing in her way – Diane. …
Author: Sarah Bailey Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin 2017 Synopsis A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before. But …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …