The Good Turn
Reviewed onDervla McTiernan has rapidly cemented her place among contemporary bestselling crime fiction greats by producing in quick succession two expertly crafted and beautifully written character-driven novels in The Ruin, and The Scholar. …
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True West
Reviewed onA new novel from David Whish-Wilson is always cause to celebrate and so it is with True West. Set in the years following the Vietnam War, this latest work brings …
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Sibanda and the Rainbird
Reviewed onIf you like your crime in exotic locations and mixed with occasional encounters with lions and elephants, this is the book for you. Sibanda and the Rainbird is set in …
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The Scholar
Reviewed onDervla McTiernan’s second novel is another thrilling ride that fulfils the promise of her debut, The Rúin. DS Cormac Reilly has only recently been taken off cold cases when his partner …
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Man at the Window
Reviewed onWhen the senior cadet master at an exclusive boys’ private school in a 1960s Perth’s suburb is shot while standing in his second storey window, there is a rush to …
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The Valley
Reviewed onThe Valley is Steve Hawke’s stunning first novel for adults. Set in the Kimberley, mostly in Bunuba country, the novel charts four generations of a family whose secretive lives are …
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Athenian Blues
Reviewed onPerth has a new world-class crime writer in its midst and his name is Pol Koutsakis. Greek-born Koutsakis has created a tightly packed mystery that moves between the backstreets and …
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The Coves
Reviewed onFans of David Whish-Wilson’s trilogy of crime novels featuring Frank Swann will recognise his superb storytelling style and elegant prose in this gripping new work of historical fiction that binds …
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Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Leigh Straw’s Lillian Armfield: How Australia’s First Female Detective Took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and Changed the Face of the Force must have one …
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The Rúin
Reviewed onGalway detective Cormac Reilly is about to reopen a cold case that has haunted him for twenty years. The image of two neglected children in a decaying mansion, their emaciated …
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