Debuts are the lifeblood of crime fiction. Without new authors and new ideas, the genre would become stale and boring. Every year we see an influx of new authors,...
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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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There is still almost month to go until the end of 2024, but already the books are beginning to pile up for 2025! I will be doing a post on my most anticipated titles...
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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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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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