With Christmas and New Year on the very near horizon, 2025 is virtually wrapped up, and my reading over the holiday period will be largely focused on the new releases...
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2025 is rapidly coming to a close and the books are beginning to pile up for 2026! I will be doing a post on my most anticipated titles for 2026 in the New Year, but...
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Debuts are the lifeblood of crime fiction. Without new authors and new ideas, the genre would become stale and boring. Every year we see an influx of new authors,...
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Coming up with the Best Books of the Year is always a challenging task. The idea of ranking and rating books never really sits right with me, as so much comes down to...
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Paperback publishers, especially Horwitz in Australia, underpinned their usual output of crime, romance and westerns with less savoury books that sought to exploit...
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very different new thrillers about new and old crimes. Silent Bones by Val McDermid (Little, Brown, 23 October 2025)...
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