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Author: Kathy Reichs Publisher: William Heinemann Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. Who was the girl? And …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: It is the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands… and no hope. …
Author: Belinda Bauer Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: It is the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands… and no hope. …
Author: Paula Hawkins Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cosy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their …
Author: June Wright, with introduction by Derham Groves Publisher: Verse Chorus Press Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that almost everyone, guests and staff alike, had good reason to shoot …
Author: June Wright Publisher: Verse Chorus Press Copyright Year: 1949 first published; 2015 re-issued with introduction and interview transcript by Lucy Sussex Review By: Robyn Walton Book Synopsis: The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange, finds her married, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But …
Author: Kathy Reichs Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Ruth Wykes Book Synopsis: Tempe is faced with the horrifying possibility that the killer who got away in Monday Mourning is back…For a decade, Temperance Brennan has been haunted by the one who got away. The killer of young women. The monster. And the …
Author: Kate Hamer Publisher: Bloomsberry House Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Carmel has always been different. Carmel’s mother, Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter’s strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own. When she takes eight year-old Carmel to a …
Author: Liza Marklund Publisher: Bantam Press Copyright Year: 2014:(English translation) originally published in Sweden 2011 Review By: Ruth Wykes Book Synopsis: In the midst of a Swedish winter, a young mother is found murdered behind her son’s nursery. Halfway across the world, in the sweltering Kenyan heat, a government official is kidnapped. As a journalist, …
Author: Mona Simpson Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd (Random House) Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Nine-year-old Miles Adler-Hart’s mother, “the Mims,” is “pretty for a mathematician.” Miles and his best friend Hector are in thrall to her. When her marriage starts to unravel, the boys begin spying on her to find …