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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Smoke And Embers by John Lawton (Atlantic Monthly/Grove, May 2025) A new John Lawton novel is always a treat and in 2025 we are going to get the ninth book in his...
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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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Death In The Arctic by Tom Hindle (Century, 16 January 2025) Still two months to go in 2024, but already the books are piling up for 2025. One New Year release that I...
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As Benjamin Stevenson points out in the ‘Prologue’ to Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret, (Penguin, 22 October 2024), Christmas mystery stories, or...
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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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