THIS WEEK’S CANBERRA WEEKLY COLUMN: 7 MAY 2020
Canberra Weekly 7 May 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three tales of suspense and betrayal by British authors. Two of them were by debut authors who...
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CRIMINALLY GOOD ISOLATION READS: SOME RECENT READING DURING LOCKDOWN
Find Them Dead by Peter James (Macmillan, May 2020) One of the few advantages of being in lockdown, is that the number of books I am reading has dramatically increased....
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: DRAGON STRIKE By Marshall Browne (1981)
Dragon Strike by Marshall Browne (Robert Hale, 1981) Marshall Browne won the Australian Ned Kelly Award For Best First Crime Novel for The Wooden Leg Of Inspector...
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FORECAST FRIDAY: TEN CRIME NOVELS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING IN 2020
The Dirty South by John Connolly 2020 promises to be another bumper year for crime and thriller readers, with a plethora of promising looking titles by established and...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: STALKING POINT by Duncan Kyle (1981)
Stalking Point by Duncan Kyle (Collins, 1981) The massive success of Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed in 1975 spawned a wave of similar Second World War...
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METROPOLIS by Philip Kerr (Quercus, $A32.99)
As others have noted, reading the late Philip Kerr’s final instalment of his Bernie Gunther magnum opus, Metropolis is a bitter sweet experience. Since Gunther’s first...
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