It has been a busy couple of weeks and my reviewing has suffered a bit. The good news is that things are now back to normal and I have plenty of posts planned for the...
Read MoreReunions are dangerous events in crime fiction, as these two new books by Bronwyn Rivers and Kate Alice Marshall clearly show. The Reunion by Bronwyn Rivers (Constable,...
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George Easter has just sent out the latest issue of his Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine (No. 106) and it is bumper issue featuring the best reads of 2024 and the most...
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The criminal reading year is well underway, with some very good 2025 books by Ronni Salt, Cara Hunter, Geoff Parkes and Ashley Kalagian Blunt already out and being...
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When The Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole by Geoff Parkes, (Penguin, 4 February 2025) There has been a dazzling array of good debut crime fiction coming out of New...
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When it came to book titles and covers, Australian pulp fiction publishers of the 1950s and 60s were firm believers in the old adage that blondes have more fun, and...
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