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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The Christmas and summer holiday season (at least in Australia) is nearly on us and I have recently read three books that would make for ideal reading over the festive...
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three outstanding new crime novels by two of the masters of the genre, Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin, and a very clever...
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There has been a flood of new releases over the past month, or so, making it very hard to keep up with them all. Here are quick reviews of three books that have made it...
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Midnight And Blue by Ian Rankin (Orion, 8 October 2024) Ian Rankin’s John Rebus series ranks alongside Michael Connelly’s Bosch books, as the most...
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September is typically the beginning of the big pre-Christmas crime releases, and this year is no exception. We have already seen new books by Ann Cleeves, Peter May...
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