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Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: A DETECTIVE – As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing in on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department and hostile forces are lining up against him. A DISAPPEARANCE – When …
Author: Lynn Shepard Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2010 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: Murder at Mansfield Park is a witty and clever reimagining of Jane Austen’s much-loved novel Mansfield Park. But in this Mansfield Park, things have changed … Formerly Austen’s meekest heroine, Fanny Price has become not only an heiress to …
Author: Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. …
Author: Elizabeth Haynes Publisher: Text Publlishing Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Anne Buist Book Synopsis: How well do you know your neighbour? How well do they know you? Would they notice if you lived or died? Police Analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy and the needs of her ageing …
Author: Fiona Harari Publisher: Melbourne University Press Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each spent years establishing demanding careers and …
Author: Julia Heaberlin Publisher: Ballantine Books – The Random House Publishing Group Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: What if your whole life was a lie ? That’s the question torturing child psychologist Tommie McCloud after she opens a stranger’s letter only days after burying her father. The woman claims that Tommie …
Author: Kathyrn Ledson Publisher: Penguin Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: The shock ending to Erica Jewell’s marriage left a huge hole in her bank balance and a bigger one in her heart. And now her life goals make a very short list: no surprises, no debt and, definitely, no men. That …
Author: Chevy Stephens Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: January 2012 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: All her life, Sara Gallaher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. And, like many children in …
Author: Deanna Raybourn Publisher: MIRA Copyright Year: 2007 ISBN: 978-7783-2410-2 Review By: Katrina Beard ” To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor”. Lady Julia Grey is reluctant to believe that her husband’s death was murder, …
Author: Asa Larsson Publisher: Penguin Books Copyright Year: 2008 ISBN: 0141024712 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Innocence will be sacrificed…On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall. Rebecka …