Between 1951 and 1961 the Sydney publishers Original Novels Foundation published over 300 titles in their Phantom Book series. They initially drew on books from the US...
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Fans of fast action crime thrillers will enjoy these new releases by M. W. Craven, Ruth Ware and Australian Andrew Nette. Orphan Road by Andrew Nette (Down & Out...
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Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during the 1980s are a terrific set of books and one of my favourite police series. The last Duffy...
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed two very different crime novels by Australian Margaret Hickey and British author Tasha Sylva. Also included is an evocative...
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Pickings have been a little slim lately, but thanks to friends I have acquired some nice pulpy Australian titles from the 1950s through to the early 1970s and a couple...
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My late May reading has been very mixed, and has ranged from historical mystery to a serial killer thriller to a courtroom drama and an exciting rescue novel about a...
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