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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Author: Lee Child (ed) Publisher: Sphere Copyright year: 2017 Synopsis In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world’s most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world’s best female thriller writers from Diana …
Pan Macmillan 2016 Synopsis ‘A – Assume nothing. B – Believe nothing. C – Check everything.’ Ron Iddles In an incredible twenty-five year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles’ conviction rate was 99%. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as ‘The Great Man’. Tough, inventive and …
Publisher: Headline Review 2017 Synopsis: A Summer To Die For To Jem Chapman, it’s the chance of a lifetime. An invitation to join a group in an exclusive Hamptons house-share, who could say no? But when she discovers what happened last summer, Jem can’t help but feel a chill. A young woman was found drowned …
Scribe Publications 2016 Reviewer: Jane Jago Synopsis On 2 December 2010, the body of 24-year-Pheobe Handsjuk is found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea apartments, in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, where she lived with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel. It emerges that Phoebe was a beautiful, damaged young woman embroiled in …