Coming up with the Best Books of the Year is always a challenging task. The idea of ranking and rating books never really sits right with me, as so much comes down to...
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The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale (Harper Collins, 30 October 2024) Pip Drysdale is ‘must read’ for those who enjoy dark, edgy, first person suspense thrillers...
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I am about to head to America to attend the Bouchercon Crime Fiction Convention in Nashville, and have been doing some Australian pre-spring cleaning: looking back over...
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I review three new rural Australian crime novels by Gabriel Bergmoser, Hayley Scrivenor and Margaret Hickey. The Hitchhiker by Gabriel...
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Welcome to the August wrap-up of things happening in Australian and New Zealand crime fiction. There is a bit of news this time, mainly around awards and events, plus a...
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Holidays can be murder! That is certainly the impression you get from the recent flood of ‘destination thrillers’ where trips to idyllic locations can have...
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