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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 …
Author: Helen Garner Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to …