Welcome to the June 2025 update of things happening in Australian and New Zealand crime fiction. There are a couple of reviews, previews of forthcoming books and some...
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Just heard that Kerry Greenwood passed away on 26 March 2025. She was 70 years old. Her funeral was today, 7 April 2025. Best known for her Phryne Fisher stories, Kerry...
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April brings us two clever British crime novels that play around with the conventions of the genre! Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Century, 8 April 2025) The...
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I have recently been doing an article on the 37 Penguin books that Australian pulp publisher Horwitz published in the early 1960s. Central to the Penguin collection...
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Harlan Coben is one of the most popular authors in the world today and his books are always a ‘must read’. In recent years the success of his twisty, unpredictable...
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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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