Book Reviews
- DOWNUNDER CRIME ROUND-UP, APRIL 2024: NEWS, REVIEWS AND PREVIEWSI have expanded my bi-monthly article on Australian crime fiction to also include New Zealand crime fiction, and consequently re-titled it: Downunder Crime Round-Up. As with the previous article, I will attempt to wrap up some recent events in the Australian and New Zealand crime fiction worlds, and offer some… Read more: DOWNUNDER CRIME ROUND-UP, APRIL 2024: NEWS, REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS
- MURDEROUS MAY: THE BEST NEW CRIME AND THRILLER TITLES COMING OUT IN MAY 2024!May is a big month for crime releases with new releases from some of the biggest names in the business, as well as some other good books that may slip under your radar. Set out below, are my pick of the best books coming out in May 2024. Leading off… Read more: MURDEROUS MAY: THE BEST NEW CRIME AND THRILLER TITLES COMING OUT IN MAY 2024!
- NEW BRITISH CRIME APRIL 2024: STUART TURTON, T. M. PAYNE and STIG ABELLThree very different British crime novels to start your April reading off with. Stuart Turton established himself as a master of the unusual crime novel, with his first book, the highly acclaimed The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It was an inventive and original mystery that demanded close attention from… Read more: NEW BRITISH CRIME APRIL 2024: STUART TURTON, T. M. PAYNE and STIG ABELL
- APRIL ACTION 2024: THREE GOOD THRILLERS By CHRISTOPHER REICH, C. J. TUDOR and DOUGLAS PRESTONOld spies, mammoths, vampires and lots of snow are the main elements of these three new thrillers by Christopher Reich, Douglas Preston and C. J. Tudor. I remember reviewing and enjoying Christopher Reich’s first novel, Numbered Account, when it came out in 1998 and I have liked a lot of… Read more: APRIL ACTION 2024: THREE GOOD THRILLERS By CHRISTOPHER REICH, C. J. TUDOR and DOUGLAS PRESTON
- GIRLS AND GUNS: BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERSVintage paperback collectors generally bemoan the shift in the late 1960s/early 1970s from illustrated covers to photographic covers. While the photographic covers usually lack the charm and class of the cover artwork by Robert McGinnis, Sam Peffer, Robert Maguire and many other artists, some of it is quite good and… Read more: GIRLS AND GUNS: BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERS
- CANBERRA WEEKLY 21 MARCH 2024: NEW CRIME NOVELS BY JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO, SULARI GENTILL and AMY TINTERAThis week in the Canberra Weekly, I reviewed three very good crime novels that ranged across the spectrum of the mystery genre from literary crime to thriller to modern psychological suspense. First up is a fast moving thriller from one of the rising stars of Spanish thriller writing, Juan Gómez-Jurado.… Read more: CANBERRA WEEKLY 21 MARCH 2024: NEW CRIME NOVELS BY JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO, SULARI GENTILL and AMY TINTERA
- MARCH MAYHEM: NEW CRIME FROM ZOE SHARP, KRISTEN PERRIN AND GAVIN STRAWHANFrom a Dorset village to the alleyways of London to a remote coastal settlement in New Zealand, this latest batch of books transverses a wide range of locations and writing styles. First up is a new novel by veteran British author Zoë Sharp, The Girl In The Dark (Bookouture, 19… Read more: MARCH MAYHEM: NEW CRIME FROM ZOE SHARP, KRISTEN PERRIN AND GAVIN STRAWHAN
- TEMPORARY DISRUPTION TO SERVICEApologies if anyone had problems visiting the site over the past couple of days. We had some issues around the connectivity of the site, which have now been hopefully fixed. I will be putting up some new reviews later today, now that I can actually access the site! Happy Wednesday… Read more: TEMPORARY DISRUPTION TO SERVICE
- APRIL ACTION: NEW CRIME AND THRILLER TITLES I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING IN APRIL 2024With a quarter of 2024 almost over, the new crime and thriller releases are beginning to flow through at an overwhelming rate. It is hard to keep up with them all, but it does mean that there is a good selection from across the crime fiction spectrum for readers to… Read more: APRIL ACTION: NEW CRIME AND THRILLER TITLES I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING IN APRIL 2024
- 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
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