Allen and Unwin – Corvus, 2016 Reviewer: Lesley Vick Synopsis Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of older children taunting her little girl. …
Reviewer: Sandra Nicholson Publisher – piatkus 2016 Synopsis Inspector Singh is irate. He’s been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London: a job for paper-pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned. And, as if that isn’t bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for souvenirs …
What better way to mark the beginning of winter on 1 June (and the return of nippy weather to Melbourne after a long Indian summer) than with the launch of Ann Turner’s new Antarctic thriller, Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster. Ann joined Sisters in Crime when her first novel, The Lost Swimmer, was …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2016 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump. Still haunted by her last run-in with a serial killer, Cass Lehman is trying hard to focus on the future. That’s not easy when …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2013 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past… but not just any past; she sees death. Fo years she’s hidden herself away in her family home. Now desperate for a better …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2014 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his final victim… With a place …
Publisher: Text Publishing Company COPYRIGHT & YEAR: Louise Welsh, 2010 REVIEWER: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Synopsis Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair…not even drinking offers much joy. All his energies are now focused on his research into Archie Lunan, a minor poet who drowned 30 years ago off a …
Publisher: Corvus Copyright date: 2016 Reviewer: Sandra Nicholson Synopsis Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she’s cut herself off from everything but her one true love – drink. Until she’s forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy. Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and …
Publisher: Sphere Copyright date: 2014 Reviewer: Sandra Nicholson Synopsis: London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II’s government with no means of paying for the …
Catch up with a half hour quiz show hosted by Michael Cathcart and scripted by Carmel Shute with music by Boris Connelly. The Sisters in Crime team of Sue Turnbull and Lindy Cameron slug it out with ‘Brothers-in-Law’ Shane Maloney and Andre Kable. Recorded in the backroom of at Leo’s Spaghetti Bar, St Kilda before …