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Author: M.J. Tjia Publisher/Year: Pantera/2019 Publisher Synopsis Stoke Newington, 1863: Little Margaret Lovejoy is found brutally murdered in the outhouse of her family’s estate. A few days later, another victim is found on the doorstep of Eurasian courtesan and professional detective Heloise Chancey at her prestigious address. At the same time, Heloise’s mother, Amah Li …
Author: Robin Bowles Publisher/Year: Scribe/2019 Publisher Synopsis Don’t fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail. When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s marina, on the night of 26 January 2009, he left behind his pipe and tobacco — something that his …
Author: Nicole Trope Publisher/Year: Allen &Unwin/2017 Publisher Synopsis In a single day, a simple mistake will have life-altering consequences for everyone involved… A gripping domestic noir thriller from the author of Blame. All Malia needed was a single litre of milk and now she’s surrounded by police and Zach has disappeared. Detective Ali Greenberg knows that …
Author: Caroline Overington Publisher/Year: Harper Collins/2017 Publisher Synopsis Keep your secrets. Tell your lies. The gripping new psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling The One Who Got Away. An old castle … For more than 150 years, a grand house known as Alden Castle has stood proudly in the rolling hills of California’s wine …
Author: J.M. Green Publisher/Year: Scribe/2017 Publisher Synopsis Wisecracking social worker Stella Hardy returns, and this time she’s battling outlaw bikie gangs, corrupt cops, and a powerful hunger for pani puri. On a stormy Halloween night, Stella gets a call from her best friend, Detective Phuong Nguyen. Phuong has a problem. Or rather her lover, Bruce Copeland, …
Author: Courtney Evan Tate Publisher/Year: Mira/2018 Publisher Synopsis Dr. Corinne Cabot is living the American dream. She’s a successful ER physician in Chicago who’s married to a handsome husband. Together they live in a charming house in the suburbs. But appearances can be deceiving—and what no one can see is Corinne’s dark past. Troubling gaps …
Author: Dervla McTiernan Publisher/Year: HarperCollins/2019 Two reviews below by Robyn Walton and Sandra Nicholson Publisher Synopsis Being brilliant has never been this dangerous … When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls her partner, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the …
Author: Caroline de Costa Publisher/Year: Wild Dingo Press/2018 Publisher Synopsis In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz went missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search …
Author: BM Allsopp Publisher/Year: Coconut Press 2018 Publisher Synopsis Must DI Joe Horseman sacrifice his chance at love to catch a killer? Only five more days… Horseman can’t wait for Melissa, his American girlfriend, to join him in Fiji. This time, he wants love to last. So, when a young activist is murdered at Tanoa …
Author: Kylie Ladd Publisher Year: Allen & Unwin 2017 Publisher Synopsis Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most of all she loves horses and horse-riding. Charlie’s parents have leased her a horse, …