Canberra Weekly 18 June 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three novels of suspense or romance. First up was Maya Linnell’s charming Bottlebrush...
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The Resident by David Jackson (Viper, 2020) David Jackson’s The Resident cleverly plays upon some of our worse fears. Thomas Brogan is a serial killer on the run....
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The Long Shadow by Anne Buist (Text, 2020) As mentioned in earlier posts, one of the few advantages of being in lockdown, is that the number of books I am reading has...
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The Saint Steps In by Leslie Charteris (Pan, 1959) ‘The Saint’ novels by Leslie Charteris were a mainstay of the British crime fiction scene from Simon...
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Canberra Weekly 21 May 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three books with a virus theme. Lawrence Wright’s The End Of October (Bantam) is the...
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Lockdown by Peter May (Riverrun, April 2020) Peter May’s Lockdown, like Richard Hugo’s The Hitler Diaries from several years ago, is one of those rare cases...
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