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Author: Annie Hauxwell Publisher: Michael Jospeh and Imprint of Penguin Books Copyright Year: 2012 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: For a first time author Annie Hauxwell has shown an amazing maturity in the crime genre. I was enthralled from the first page when Catherine Berlin “gazes down at the blue flesh swaying in the grey water’ to the last …
Author: Sue Williams Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Ann Byrne and Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: “If you wanted to hide somewhere there’s no way I’d choose Rusty Bore. A hundred and forty seven residents and everyone single one of them watching. No one here forgets. Especially your mistakes” Rusty Bore is a fictious place, somewhere north of …
Author: Katherine Howell Publisher: Pan Macmillan Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Rose Mercer Book Synopsis: Again, Katherine Howell caused me sleepless nights while I read, read, read, lost in the world and situations she created. Without exception, Katherine Howell’s experience as a former paramedic provides the reader with believable and provocative glimpses into this profession. Web of Deceit, the sixth …
Author: Sulari Gentill Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781921997075 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: The year is 1933 and Hitler’s Nazi government is consolidating its hold on power, imprisoning socialists, trade unionists and avante garde artists who work is considered ‘degenerate’. Public book burnings are held to purge the shelves of ‘un-German’ works by Marxists, pacifists, Jews and …
Author: Kerry Greenwood Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2012 No of Pages: 334 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: Explaining his reason for wrapping up the Kenzie-Gennaro series, Dennis Lehane allegedly says, “Have you every heard anyone say ‘The seventeenth book in the series was my favorite’?” Perhaps Mr Lehane lacks Ms Greenwood’s chutzpah as I’m here to say Unnatural …
Author: Helene Young Publisher: Michael Joseph – an imprint of Penguin Books Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-921901-22-5 Review By: Virgnia Jane Rose Book Synopsis: It’s easy to see why Helene Young was voted Australia’s favourite romantic suspense novelist in 2010 and 2011 – Burning Lies truly is “an explosive story of peril and passion”, and the relationships between the characters are …
Author: Kathyrn Fox Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-7-7426-1034-4 No of Pages: 337 Review By: Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: Like a lot of reviewers of Cold Grave, I read it in a couple of days and really enjoyed it. A crime series is only as strong as its characters and the broader story arc. While we have watched Dr …
Author: Kim Westwood Publisher: Harper Voyager Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-7322-8988-1 Review By: Kate McIver Book Synopsis: This is a dystopian novel set in Melbourne in a near future where an oppressive religious party is in power. Anything and anyone they consider unnatural is under threat. Salisbury Forth (Sal to her friends), a gender transgressive, has been rejected by her family, …
Author: Kerry Greenwood Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-74237-021-7 Review By: Anne Marshall Book Synopsis: Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman series of books combines two of my favourite things – food and mystery. These stories never disappoint with a great plot and, one thing I find a lot of crime novels lack, some fantastic secondary characters. In this, the …
Author: Susan Green Publisher: Newtown: Walker Books Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9781921720277 Review By: Sue Bursztynski London 1878. Verity Sparks has an extraordinary talent: she can find lost things just by thinking about them. When she joins a Confidential Inquiry Agency, she discovers there is a mystery lurking in her own past and that unknown forces are working against her. …