Book Reviews
- 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
- 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
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