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Author: Helene Young Publisher: Hachette Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978 0 7336 2490 2 (pbk) Review By: Yvonne Smith Book Synopsis: Helene Young has set her novel in North Queensland. Captain Morgan Pentland is a feisty pilot in the Border Watch fleet covering the “top end” . Tightly held views stemming from memories of her difficult childhood and through a series …
Author: Katherine Howell Publisher: Pan MacMillan Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Ruth Wykes Book Synopsis: In Murder in Suburbia true-crime author Emily Webb has investigated a number of cases that most people won’t have heard about. Emily Webb has tackled some of the most bizarre crimes in Australia, those that leave investigators scratching their heads. As the title suggests, most …
Author: Katherine Howell Publisher: Pan MacMillan Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Ruth Wykes Book Synopsis: Deserving Death is the seventh in Katherine Howell’s series of Detective Ella Marconi books. For those unfamiliar with the series, Katherine writes about paramedics, and the crimes they encounter –and sometimes create. Deserving Death opens with the disappearance of a young, female paramedic, the second …
Author: Josephine Pennicott Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Diana Olsberg Book Synopsis: This is an enchanting book. Enchanting because of the wonderfully detailed descriptions of life in Sydney and in the nearby Blue Mountains immediately following the end of World War II. But also enchanting because of the carefully unfolding mysteries of the extraordinarily engaging characters …
Author: Felicity Young Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 978 0 7322 9802 9 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: The Scent of Murder, the third book in the historical mystery series involving autopsy surgeon Dr Dody McClelland, is a fascinating exploration of the period as well as a very satisfying crime plot. Set in the time of the suffragist movement there …
Author: Livia Day Publisher: Deadlines Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 9781922101013 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: Drowned Vanillais book two of the Café La Femme series – a culinary crime novel. The ice cream obsessed Tabitha regrets her earlier entanglement with solving crime in A Trifle Dead. She is now focussed on developing all ice cream flavours (except vanilla which everyone …
Author: Helene Young Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Review By: Sandy Curtis Book Synopsis: Northern Heat builds suspense the way the cyclone that threatens Cooktown makes its presence felt – slowly at first, then with tendrils of heat and tension that swirl around the characters, drawing the reader into a world of lies, violence and murder. Conor Woods has …
Author: Megan Morris Publisher: Five Mile Press ISBN: 9781743461266 (pbk) Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Once again, journalist and 2008 Eliminating Violence Against Women Media Award (EVA) winner, Megan Norris turns her skills to writing true crime with the story of the attempted murder of Chris Soteriou. Beginning the story with the attack of Soteriou after his lavish 40th …
Author: Maris Morton Publisher: Odyssey Books Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-922200-08-2 (pbk) Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Maris Morton, winner of the Copywrite Limited Agency (CAL) Scribe Fiction Award in 1910, has written a new novel that incorporates a couple of her past vocations. The story revolves around the heroine Joanna and her love interest Chris and the murder of …
Author: Katherine Howell Publisher: Mac Millan Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Katherine Howell understands the mechanics of a good thriller. Start with a crisis then rachet up the anxiety while muddying the waters. In Howell’s Tell the Truth, the crisis concerns the disappearance of a young female paramedic, whose car is discovered in a parking lot …