Author: Kerry Tucker with Craig Henderson Publisher/Year: Penguin Random House/2018 Publisher Synopsis: Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she had a terrible secret: she had been stealing money from her employers. When her offence was discovered it was reported to be the biggest white-collar crime committed by a female
Author: Megan Goldin Publisher/Year: 2018 Publisher Synopsis In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they’ll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them
Author: Pip Drysdale Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster (Aus.), 2018 Publishers Synopsis Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as the wind always does, you are different; you have a new direction. And
Author: Tiffany Tsao Publisher/Year: Penguin/Viking 2018 Publisher Synopsis Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, powerful and sometimes treacherous family, they’ve relied on each other for support and confidence. Now, though, Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of their
Author: C.A. Larmer Publisher/Year: Larmer Media 2018 Synopsis The champagne is flowing, the movie is showing, and a killer is lurking just blankets away… When the Agatha Christie Book Club reunite to watch Evil Under the Sun at a moonlight cinema, they quickly find themselves face-to-face with evil under a star-lit sky. A woman has
Author: Angela Slatter Publisher/Year: Jo Fletcher Books 2017 Publisher Synopsis Verity’s all about protecting her city, but right now that’s mostly running surveillance and handling the less exciting cases for the Weyrd Council – after all, it’s hard to chase the bad guys through the streets of Brisbane when you’re really, really pregnant. An insurance investigation sounds
Author: Emma Viskic Publisher/Year: Echo Publishing 2017 Publisher Synopsis Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours. But when a young woman is killed after
The Dinosaur Feather Publisher/Year: Quercus, 2015 The Arc of the Swallow Publisher/Year: riverrun, 2016 Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan Reviewer: Robyn Walton The Dinosaur Feather, Sissel-Jo Gazan’s breakthrough crime fiction novel, was first published in Denmark in 2008 as Dinosaurens fjer. It was very well received in the Nordic region, being hailed as Danish Crime Novel
Author: Hazel Edwards Publisher: BookPOD Year: 2018 Synopsis ‘I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will.’‘ Quinn, a celebrant with style and a few obsessions but a good heart, solves quirky problems, mysteries and the occasional murder at weddings, funerals and naming ceremonies in her country town. Ex-actor with a great
Author: Sophie Masson Cover & Illustrations: Yvonne Low Publisher: Eagle Books Copyright Year: 2017 Synopsis May 1910… Linda’s father is missing in Paris, and her only clue is the Jack of Spades card that was sent to their home in London. In the family code, ‘Jack of Spades’ means danger. But it is not