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Review: The Defence by Steve Cavanagh
Reviewed by Corrie Macdonald The writer: Cavanagh is an Irish lawyer who’s set his first novel in the gritty surrounds of New York city. The blurb: ‘Nail-biting tension, exhilarating action … a...
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Review: The Whitstable Pearl Mystery by Julie Wassmer
Reviewed by Corrie Macdonald The writer: Wassmer is a former long-term EastEnders scriptwriter penning her debut crime novel featuring amateur sleuth Pearl Nolan. The blurb: ‘Seafood, murder & a...
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Review: Broadchurch by Erin Kelly and Chris Chibnall
Reviewed by Shaneyah Galley Buckle in folks! I’m always vaguely sceptical of TV shows or movies that get turned into books; it’s a very unusual type of adaptation, isn’t it? Having not seen...
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Review: Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
Reviewed by Krista McKeeth In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver...
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Review: Black Widow by Carol Baxter
Reviewed by Stephen Dedman The front cover blurb describes this as “The true story of Australia’s first female serial killer”, which is something of a stretch if you define a serial killer as someone...
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Review: The Stolen Ones by Owen Laukkenen
Reviewed by Stephen Dedman Irina and Catalina Milosovici have come from Romania to the US in a cargo container, believing the promises of American and Romanian people smugglers that Irina will become a...
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Review: Eleven Days by Stav Sherez
Reviewed by Joelene Pynnonen It is eleven days until Christmas when a fire breaks out, engulfing a suburban convent. Ten nuns perish but, in the shell of the gutted building, an eleventh body is found....
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Review: Blockbuster! by Lucy Sussex
Reviewed by Stephan Dedman Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of A Hansom Cab By Lucy Sussex Text Publishing, 298 pages Lucy Sussex is the author of the novel The Scarlet Rider, the non-fiction...
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Review: Truth by Peter Temple
Reviewed by Joelene Pynnonen The city of Melbourne is in the grip of a hot summer when Inspector Villani is called to a luxury apartment complex. A young woman has been brutally murdered, her body left...
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Review: The Forgetting Place by John Burley
Reviewed by Krista McKeeth A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense from the author...
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Review: The Beat Goes On by Ian Rankin
Reviewed by Corrie McDonald The writer: Described by American writer James Ellroy as ‘the king of tartan noir’, Rankin is, for me, the most literary and lyrical of all contemporary crime writers. And...
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Review: Solitude Creek by Jeffrey Deaver
This is one of the most engaging thrillers I’ve come across in a while. I was a little let down by the ending, but would still recommend it, whether you’re new to Kathryn Dance novels or are a...
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Review: Unsolved Australia by Justine Ford
Reviewed by Stephen Dedman Unsolved Australia has much of the feel of an extended “best of” episode of Australia’s Most Wanted, which is unsurprising considering that the author, crime reporter...
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Review: The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty
Reviewed by Damian Magee According to her website, this is Cal Moriarty’s first novel, and number one in her Wonderland series. Moriarty was a private detective, and developed the novel when...
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Review: Into the Dark by Allison DuBois
Reviewed by Belinda Hamilton You may have heard of Allison for many reasons. Her numerous bestselling books about the ‘other side’, her skills as a medium, (which she takes on tour globally), or the...
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Review: The Girl in the Ice by Lotte and Soren Hammer
Reviewed by Stephen Dedman The Girl in the Ice is the second book in Lotte and Soren Hammer’s five-book series of crime novels featuring Konrad Simonsen’s Homicide Division, following on from The...
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Krista Reviews: Confessions by Kanae Minato
Reviewed by Krista McKeeth Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you’ll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing...
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Review: Mr Holmes by Mitch Cullin
All novels and short stories not written by Doyle are known as pastiches, and these stories are generally set Victorian & Edwardian eras using the characters based on Doyle, Holmes, Watson,...
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Review: Why Did They Do It? by Cheryl Critchley and Helen McGrath
Cheryl Critchley is an investigative journalist from Melbourne. Dr Helen McGrath is an adjunct psychology professor at Deakin University. Why Did They Do It? is an intriguing hybrid that gives roughly...
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Review: Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Reviewed by Krista McKeeth Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child’s new exhilarating novel Blue...
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