THE YEAR’S BEST: MY FAVOURITE THRILLERS AND CRIME NOVELS OF 2022
March 2022 represented the fortieth anniversary of my career as a paid crime fiction and thriller reviewer. My first review, of Ted Allbeury’s The Secret...
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HOLIDAY READING: NEW BOOKS BY ROBERT CRAIS, JANET EVANOVICH, JEFFERY DEAVER, LINCOLN CHILD, DAVID GILMAN and TIM WEAVER
With the Christmas and summer holidays quickly approaching, at least here in Australia, I thought I would look at some recent releases that would make for good beach...
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CANBERRA WEEKLY 10 NOVEMBER 2022: NEW AMERICAN CRIME FICTION
This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three new American crime novels, which entertain while also casting a sharp eye at American society. Livid by Patricia...
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OCTOBER READING: LEE AND ANDREW CHILD, DAVID MARK AND MARY KELIIKOA
My October reading has been on the darker side, although it has been offset by the enjoyable audible version of Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed. Set out...
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CANBERRA WEEKLY 13 OCTOBER 2022: NEW CRIME FICTION
This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very good, new crime novels that range in location from damp Edinburgh to the harsh border region between Greece,...
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A HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES By Ian Rankin
A Heart Full Of Headstones by Ian Rankin (Orion, 11 October 2022) The twenty-fourth book in Ian Rankin’s much loved series about detective John Rebus, A Heart...
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