Part detective story, part brutal alternate history, Peter Tieryas’ United States of Japan is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. Read on for our full review. United States of Japan Book Synopsis Decades ago, Japan won…
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…
Killing Adonis has recently published in the US by Poisoned Pen Press Mysteries. Killing Adonis Synopsis: LIGHT DUTIES, LARGE PAY NO QUESTIONS ASKED … OR ANSWERED After seeing a curious flyer, Freya takes a job caring for Elijah, the comatose son of…
One Synopsis : The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains…
Christy Collins’ The End of Seeing is a must-read, but not an easy one. One of our Top Reads of 2016. Read on for our full review. The End of Seeing Synopsis: You saw something here – something that connects this town…
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…
That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson ranks as one of my dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. That Devil’s Madness Synopsis In 1896 Louis and his father, seduced by the allure of North Africa, travel to Algeria in search of a…
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…
I listened to the Northern Lights / Golden Compass audiobook. Adult or child, will adore Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy heroine Lyra Belacqua.
Nicole Mones’ The Last Chinese Chef is a delicious escape for foodies and romantics alike. The Last Chinese Chef Synopsis: This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light…
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch’s first novel, features Jake Donaghue and sidekicks getting into predicaments, barbed banter and deception. Under the Net Synopsis: Iris Murdoch’s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful…
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…
