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Author: Gillian Flynn Publisher: Orion Publishing Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Michaela Lobb Book Synopsis: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the …
Author: Alafair Burke Publisher: Harper Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Michaela Lobb Book Synopsis: Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks. When she locates a video that captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the …
Author: Diane Hester Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 9781742756424 Review By: Sandy Curtis Book Synopsis: It’s been two years since Shyler O’Neill’s beloved son Jesse was killed – but his final moments are as vivid to her now as they were that dreadful day. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, and convinced she did not do enough …
Author: Livia Day Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Michaela Lobb Book Synopsis: Tabitha Darling has always had a dab hand for pastry and a knack for getting into trouble. Which was fine when she was a tearaway teen, but not so useful now she’s trying to run a hipster urban cafe, …
Author: Val McDermid Publisher: Little Brown Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-4087-0458-5 Review By: Angela Savage and Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: The Skeleton Road opens with a skeleton being found in the top of an abandoned Gothic building in Edinburgh, a bullet hole in its skull. The corpse carries no ID, only a hotel keycard in …
Author: Dr. Xanthe Mallett Publisher: Edbury Press and Randon House Australia Pty Ltd. Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 978 0 85798 380 0 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine. Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. …
Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Picador Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Michaela Lobb Book Synopsis: In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jón Jónsson, his …
Author: Lauren Beukes Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to …
Author: Sally Breen Publisher: Fourth Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Nita Jaye Book Synopsis: An electrifying, neo-noir tale of identity theft, subterfuge and new beginnings, set in the dark shadows of the Gold Coast’s glittering high-rise strip … Jade, on the run from her past, arrives on the Gold …
Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: Former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache, has found a peace he’d never imagined possible, away from the front line of the police and in the tranquil village of Three Pines. But when his friend Clara Morrow asks for help, he …