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Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Sphere Review By: Kelly Marshall Book Synopsis: Bury Your Dead is Louise Penny’s sixth novel featuring Armand Gamache the admirable Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec. The novel deals with redemption and forgiveness while offering the reader a truly gripping mystery. Recovering from injuries received in a botched case where …
Author: Wendy Lewis Publisher: Five Mile Press Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: ISBN: 978 1 74178 506 7 No of Pages: 247 Review By: Sharon Halasz Book Synopsis: This true crime story is written in five parts, each containing five chapters and covering a different kidnapping theme. The first part delves into classic kidnappings such as …
Author: Fleur Mc Donald Publisher: Allen & Unwin Copyright Year: 2009 ISBN: ISBN: 9781741756296 No of Pages: 348 Review By: Jan Bull Book Synopsis: After the death of her husband in an horrific plane crash, Gemma Sinclair defies community expectations, and her husband’s dying words, by taking on the daunting task of managing the 100,000 …
Author: Joy Dettman Publisher: Mac Millan Review By: Bronwen Scott Book Synopsis: On a balmy midsummer’s evening in 1923, a young woman foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the …
Author: Mo Hayder Publisher: Bantam Press Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: ISBN 9780593063811 No of Pages: 415 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: Synopsis (from the back cover blurb) November in the West Country. Evening is closing in as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a car-jacking. He’s dealt with routine car-thefts …
Author: Lynn Shepard Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2010 Review by: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: I have found that referencing a classic hardly ever works – more so if the original author is a favourite of the reader. So I came to this book in some trepidation. I was, however, pleasantly surprised. Lynn Shepherd …
Author: Sophie Hannah Publisher: Hodder & Staughton Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Phyllis King and Kimberley Starr Book Synopsis: Phyllis King Review Connie and Kit Bowskill have always wanted to live in Cambridge and, noting that a house at 11 Bentley Grove has a newly erected For Sale sign, Connie logs onto the property website …
Author: Lisa Gardiner Publisher: Orion Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: ISBN 978 1 4091 1007 1 No of Pages: 357 Reviewed by: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: Synopsis (from the back cover blurb) One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have …
Author: Karin Fossum Publisher: Harvill Secker Copyright Year: 2010 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: On Friday 13th September, Jon Moreno is collected from the psychiatric hospital in which he is a patient. His lifelong friends, Axel Frimann and Philip Reilly, want him to have some fun, they tell him, and believe a weekend away …
Author: Val McDermid Publisher: Little Brown Reviewed by: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: The Fever of the Bone is the 6th novel to feature Clinical Psychologist Dr Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan of Wire in the Blood TV fame. Someone is killing teenagers whose only link is that they a part of a …