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, and...
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March 2022 represented the fortieth anniversary of my career as a paid crime fiction and thriller reviewer. My first review, of Ted Allbeury’s The Secret...
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The Tilt by Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin, October 2022) Chris Hammer’s The Tilt is a heady brew of murder, rural history, old family secrets and modern day...
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Day’s End by Garry Disher (Text, 1 November 2022) Few, if any, do outback crime consistently as well as Garry Disher. Day’s End is the fourth in his series...
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very good, new crime novels that range in location from damp Edinburgh to the harsh border region between Greece,...
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The Tilt by Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin, 5 October 2022) Chris Hammer mixes up a heady brew of murder, rural history, old family secrets and modern day terrorism in...
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