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Author: Adriana Koulias Publisher: Random House, Australia Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: ‘By the Power of these Keys the Head of the Church will be made the Lord of Hell’ In late 2012 a cryptic invitation leads a crime novelist to Venice’s Island of the Dead. Once there he is captivated …
Author: Rebecca James Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2010 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: Truth or dare?’ she asks. I hesitate. I have so many secrets, so many things I don’t want to reveal, but this is only a game, only a bit of fun. ‘Truth,’ I say finally. ‘I can imagine one …
Author: Sophie Masson Publisher: Scholastic Press Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sylvia Loader and Sue Bursztynski As the title suggests, this book for young adults is set in the world of the theatre. Millie Osborne, the heroine, is the daughter of the general manager of King’s Company which is busy rehearsing a production of Hamlet. …
Author: Karen Healey Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978 1 74175 881 8 Review By: Sylvia Loader, Sue Bursztynski and Robbie Hutchins Book Synopsis: I had a plan for what to do if a member of my family was murdered. It went: 1. Find the killer. 2. Make sure that they were …
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sylvia Loader and Sue Bursztynski Book Synopsis: There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, perched at the very top …
Author: Petra Hammesfahr Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Copyright Year: 2007 ISBN: 9781904738251 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in …
Author: Anne Holt Publisher: Atlantic Books Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9781848876118, Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal …
Author: Elizabeth George Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: The coroner’s verdict is accidental death. Ian Cresswell slipped, hit his head and drowned in the boathouse – a tragic accident. Ian’s uncle, business magnate Bernard Fairclough, is not so sure. To put his mind at rest, he requests …
Author: Anne Holt Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84887-608-8 No of Pages: 313 Review By: Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: A train crashes in the mountains during one of the worst snow storms in Norwegian history, trapping a couple of hundred survivors in a hotel 1222 metres above sea level. One of the …
Author: Miyuki Miyabe Publisher: Kodansha International Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9784770031044 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets. Someone has unlawfully removed a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for a lost pet goes missing, possibly drowned in the sewers. Is it murder …