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My Best Books of 2021 and 2022 Reading Plans

My Best Books of 2021 and 2022 Reading Plans

Each year I get to read many new book releases thanks to the wonderful publishers I work with, but I still try and make time for older titles because good books have no use-by date. So in this end of…

Treasure & Dirt by Chris Hammer, Review: Criminally good

Treasure & Dirt by Chris Hammer, Review: Criminally good

Treasure & Dirt (aka Opal Country) is Chris Hammer’s latest criminally good crime novel set in an evocatively desolate outback opal mining town and the inaugural pairing of detectives Lucic & Buchanan. Read my full review. Treasure & Dirt (aka…

SILVER by Chris Hammer, Book Review: Literary determination

SILVER by Chris Hammer, Book Review: Literary determination

Silver is Chris Hammer’s compelling sequel to his debut novel Scrublands, which won the 2019 CWA Dagger New Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel. Read on for our review. Silver Book Synopsis For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run…