Recent review books: March 2020 After a slightly slow start to the year, the review books are now piling in at a scary rate! Of the pile on my floor, these look the...
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Dragon Strike by Marshall Browne (Robert Hale, 1981) Marshall Browne won the Australian Ned Kelly Award For Best First Crime Novel for The Wooden Leg Of Inspector...
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Beat Not The Bones by Charlotte Jay (Avon, 1955) Supernatural Stories No. 39 (Badger, 1961) At first glance there would seem to be little connection between an Edgar...
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Butcher of Auschwitz by John Slater (Horwitz, 1965) In the early 1960s Australian paperbacks featured a steady stream of books about the horrific treatment of...
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Where The Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Australia seems to be blessed at the moment with an increasing number of good, intelligent crime...
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Canberra Weekly 20 February 2020 In this week’s Canberra Weekly column I review three new crime novels from around the world. Leading off the column is The...
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