Camilla Lackberg’s The Ice Child (Erica Falck & Patrik Hedstrom #9) is a thrilling blend of family drama and shocking criminal investigation. Read my full review. The Ice Child Book Synopsis January, Fjällbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in…
Jane Doe January is the searingly honest memoir from crime fiction author Emily Winslow, once a real-life victim of rape. Jane Doe January Synopsis My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice Emily Winslow was a young drama student at an…
Missing Synopsis Cass Lehman and Detective Ed Dyson #3 On any night, 1 person in 200 is homeless … Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump. Still…
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Amy and the Fox by John Lake ‘West Riding iconoclast’ John Lake turns his focus on Southern middle class mores in his new novel, a tale of loss, love, sex, betrayal and talking animals set against the background of Cameron’s…
Today Melanie Casey joins us to discuss her latest release Missing, the third title in her paranormal crime series featuring Cass Lehman and Detective Ed Dyson, and we offer readers the chance to win a copy. BLBR: Thanks so much for taking the…
Cath Ferla’s Ghost Girls won the 2017 Davitt Awards – Best Crime Debut and is one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016 . The Ghost Girls Book Synopsis Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job…
Hindsight Synopsis Cass Lehman has a terrifying ‘gift’… She sees what others can’t… 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…
Soji Shimada’s 1981 literary debut The Tokyo Zodiac Murders now in translation. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Synopsis: Japan, 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead – in a room locked from the inside. His diaries…
Gun Street Girl is Book 4 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series and one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. Gun Street Girl Synopsis Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the…
Nadia Dalbuono’s The American is an intriguing crime puzzle, international adventure thriller and a moving human drama. The American Synopsis: The second Leone Scamarcio thriller. As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the…
Three Lives Down Synopsis : Dan Taylor has survived two attempts on his life. The rest of his team are missing, and now a terrorist group has stolen a radioactive isotope from a top secret government project. Can Dan survive long enough…
LJM Owen’s Olmec Obituary is the first novel in the fascinating series: Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth. Really cold cases. Read on for our review. Olmec Obituary Synopsis Yearning for her former life as an archaeologist, Australian librarian Dr. Elizabeth Pimms is struggling with a…
Sigge Eklund’s Into the Labyrinth translated from the original Swedish by Katarina Tucker. Into the Labyrinth Synopsis An eleven-year-old girl, Magda, has disappeared. Her mother Åsa works every clue, obsessively trying to solve the mystery. Is she concerned, or coldly delusional?…
Last week we reviewed J M Green’s debut crime novel Good Money. Today Jenny joins us to discuss Good Money. BLBR: Congratulations on the release of your debut novel Good Money Jenny, and prior to that being shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian…
In Good Money, J M Green introduces fabulous leading lady Stella Hardy – a wisecracking social worker with a thirst for social justice, good laksa, and alcohol. Good Money Book Synopsis: Stella’s phone rings. A young African boy, the son…
Supersymmetry, the sequel to David Walton’s Superposition. Supersymmetry Synopsis : Ryan Oronzi is a paranoid, neurotic, and brilliant physicist who has developed a quantum military technology that could make soldiers nearly invincible in the field. The technology, however, gives power to the quantum creature…
