Book Reviews
- LOOKING FORWARD: NEW 2024 AUSSIE CRIME BY GARRY DISHER AND CANDICE FOXAustralian crime fiction, of both the domestically and overseas located varieties, has already gotten off to a very good start in 2024 with some outstanding new books by Simon Rowell, Dinuka McKenzie, Sarah Bailey, Sulari Gentill and Dervla McTiernan, to name a few. Now there are two more good books… Read more: LOOKING FORWARD: NEW 2024 AUSSIE CRIME BY GARRY DISHER AND CANDICE FOX
- MURDER AND MAYHEM IN MARCH 2024: FAST PACED CRIME NOVELS By LISA GARDNER, JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO and MAX LUTHERMy reading in early March has been dominated by three fast paced crime thrillers that offered plenty of excitement and some clever plotting. Lisa Gardner continues her popular series about Frankie Elkin, a drifter who specialises in finding missing people, with Still See You Everywhere, (Century, 12 March 2024). This… Read more: MURDER AND MAYHEM IN MARCH 2024: FAST PACED CRIME NOVELS By LISA GARDNER, JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO and MAX LUTHER
- SPOOKS AND SPOOKS: FORGOTTEN THRILLERS – SUPERNATURAL SPY NOVELS BY GEORGE O’TOOLE AND JOHN GARDNERSpies and ghosts are not an usual combination. There are exceptions, such as Raymond Hawkey’s compelling It, but in general serious spy novels and the supernatural do not usually mix well together. However, in reading back through my collection recently I rediscovered two quite good spy novels from the 1970s… Read more: SPOOKS AND SPOOKS: FORGOTTEN THRILLERS – SUPERNATURAL SPY NOVELS BY GEORGE O’TOOLE AND JOHN GARDNER
- LISTEN FOR THE LIE By AMY TINTERAA combination of podcasts, small towns, old crimes and unreliable narrators, has been popping up a lot in recent crime fiction releases, but few have done it as well as Amy Tintera in her debut adult crime novel, Listen For The Lie (Bantam, 5 March 2024). Five years ago, Lucy… Read more: LISTEN FOR THE LIE By AMY TINTERA
- CANBERRA WEEKLY 29 FEBRUARY 2024: NEW CRIME NOVELS BY DERVLA McTIERNAN, C. L. MILLER AND SARAH BAILEYThis week in the Canberra Weekly, I reviewed three good new crime novels that ranged across the spectrum of the mystery genre from cosy to domestic suspense to police detection. Sarah Bailey’s Body Of Lies (Allen & Unwin, 27 February 2024) joins the good run of early year Australian police… Read more: CANBERRA WEEKLY 29 FEBRUARY 2024: NEW CRIME NOVELS BY DERVLA McTIERNAN, C. L. MILLER AND SARAH BAILEY
- 2024 BARRY AWARD NOMINEESThe Editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, George Easter, has revealed the Barry Award Nominees for 2024. The winners of these awards will be announced at the Opening Ceremonies of the Nashville Bouchercon on August 29, 2024. The nominees were chosen by panels of experts in mystery/crime fiction. The readers/subscribers of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine will determine… Read more: 2024 BARRY AWARD NOMINEES
- BRITISH CRIME FICTION MARCH 2024: NEW BOOKS FROM C. L. MILLER AND NICCI FRENCHFans of cozier British mysteries and domestic suspense will enjoy these two early March releases! C. L. (Cara) Miller makes an impressive debut with her first murder mystery, The Antique Hunter’s Guide To Murder (Macmillan, 27 February 2024) Following a tragic incident in Cairo twenty years ago, Freya Lockwood has… Read more: BRITISH CRIME FICTION MARCH 2024: NEW BOOKS FROM C. L. MILLER AND NICCI FRENCH
- TRASHY TUESDAY: BOOK HAUL – PAN COVERSAt a recent bookfair I acquired some nice Pan and Great Pan books, which covered the spectrum of genre fiction. The pick of them are set out below, including some good covers by two of the best artists from the Pan stable, William Francis Phillipps and Dave Tayler. Phillipps was… Read more: TRASHY TUESDAY: BOOK HAUL – PAN COVERS
- AUSSIE CRIME ROUND-UP, FEBRUARY 2024: NEWS, REVIEWS AND PREVIEWSThis is the first of what I hope to be an ongoing series of bi-monthly articles wrapping up recent events in the Australian crime fiction world and offering some reviews and previews of forthcoming titles. NEWS Firstly, news of some upcoming author events and tours: Dervla McTiernan will be in… Read more: AUSSIE CRIME ROUND-UP, FEBRUARY 2024: NEWS, REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS
- FORGOTTEN THRILLERS: UNCLE TARGET BY GAVIN LYALLAfter a successful run of high quality adventure thrillers in the MacLean/Bagley style, Gavin Lyall turned towards spy thrillers in 1982 with a short series about Major Harry Maxim. Maxim is an SAS officer who is assigned as a security adviser to 10 Downing Street following the death of his… Read more: FORGOTTEN THRILLERS: UNCLE TARGET BY GAVIN LYALL
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