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Author: Liz Porter Publisher: Pan Mac Millan Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9718742610092 Review By: Jo McGahey Book Synopsis: Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in …
Author: Judy Johnson Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978 0 7322 9250 8 Review By: Jo Mcgahey Book Synopsis: A daring heroine tests her wits against secrets, spies and smugglers on a remote Australian island ′It′s peculiar, the assumptions we all make. For instance, how, in a diary, the truth bone′s connected to …
Author: Elizabeth Haynes Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781921921278 No of Pages: 520 Review By: Gayle Sutherland Book Synopsis: Genevieve has decided to leave her stressful life in London – sales executive by day, pole dancer by night – to start a new life restoring a houseboat in Kent. Her peace is shattered …
Author: Ruth Dugdall Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781921922893 No of Pages: 282 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: They came for me, just like I knew they would. Luke had been dead for just three days. Rose Wilks’ life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma …
Author: Syliva Johnson Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978 1 74237 670 7 Review By: Maris Morton Book Synopsis: Australia, 1967. Four children tell a lie to get out of trouble. As a result, an immigrant worker is wrongly accused of a crime, with horrific repercussions. Nearly forty years later, in London, …
Author: Rebecca Lim Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9780732291990 Review By: Sue Bursztynski Mercy is an angel who did something very stupid thousands of years ago and is now being forced to “leap” (my word) into mortal bodies and fix the problems of others before leaping out again. There’s a hole in her …
Author: Helen Fitzgerald Publisher: Faber and Faber Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-571-25437-8 Review By: Kate McIver Book Synopsis: Just after her sixteenth birthday, Will’s daughter Georgie suffers kidney failure. She needs a transplant but her type is rare. Will, a single dad who’s given up everything to raise his twin daughters, offers to be a …
Author: Rochelle Jackson Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781742372556 Review By: Karen Chisholm and Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: What attracts women to dangerous men? For Georgina Freeman (married to illegal casino king George Freeman), Ann-Marie Presland (girlfriend of organised crime figure Bob Trimbole), Fran Stratford (partner of murderer Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley), …
Author: Alex Marwood Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84744-520-9 Review By: Gayl O’Connor Book Synopsis: Twenty-five years ago two little girls were imprisoned for murder. Now journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young women and her investigation leads her to cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it …
Author: Penny Matthews Publisher: Penguin Group (Australia) Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 978 0 14 301148 4 Review By: Gayl O’Connor Book Synopsis: This heartbreaking story is based on real events that took place more than a century ago, capturing headlines all around Australia. This fictional account of those events is written from the point of …