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Author: Catherune Titasey Publisher: University of Queensland Press Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sylvia Loader Book Synopsis: When Thea takes the job as Officer in Charge of the Thursday Island police station, she has no idea that her desire to start anew and return to her mother’s Islander roots will be the greatest challenge of …
Author: Georgia Blain Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9781864719833 Review By: Sarah Robinson-Hatch Book Synopsis: Amanda Clarke is dead. Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone suspects Lyndon, one of Amanda’s friends. He’s known for …
Author: Karen Foxlee Publisher: University of Queensland Press Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 970-702-249648 No of Pages: 328 Review By: Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: Rose Lovell’s dad is an alcoholic and father and daughter move around quite a bit. One stop they make turns out to be different from all the rest. At school, she meets …
Author: Cara Black Publisher: Soho Crime Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: A long-lost Modigliani, a grieving brother’s blood vendetta, a Soviet secret- Aimée Leduc’s current case is her most exciting yet. The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920’s, when artists, writers and their muses drank absinthe …
Author: Sarah Foster Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 978 1 74275 399 7 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: How far would you go to save someone you love? Two years ago, Desi Priest made a horrific mistake and destroyed her family. Now, she is coming home to make amends: to her daughter Maya, who’s nurturing her …
Author: Ruth Rendall Publisher: Hutchinson Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 978-0-09-195385-0 Review By: Susan Woldenberg Butler Book Synopsis: A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When …
Author: Deborah Burrows Publisher: Pan Mac Millan (Australia) Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781742611913 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: It’s January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the …
Author: Ruth Rendall Publisher: Hutchinson Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 978-0-09-195385-0 Review By: Susan Woldenberg Butler Book Synopsis: A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When …
Author: Kirsty Murray Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2009 ISBN: 9781741757101 No of Pages: 252 Review By: Sarah Robinson Book Synopsis: It is 40 years into the future and the world is in turmoil. A plague has destroyed humans’ ability to conceive females, or so Callum thinks until he meets Bo. One girl – …
Author: Eleanor Catton Publisher: Granta Publications Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781847088765 Review By: Nita Jay Book Synopsis: Walter Moody, shaken by having seen a ghost in a storm at sea, enters the Victorian gold rush town of Hokitika. He happens upon a clandestine meeting of 12 men come together to explain strange happenings- deaths, disappearances-and …