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Author: Elizabeth George Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: The coroner’s verdict is accidental death. Ian Cresswell slipped, hit his head and drowned in the boathouse – a tragic accident. Ian’s uncle, business magnate Bernard Fairclough, is not so sure. To put his mind at rest, he requests …
Author: Anne Holt Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84887-608-8 No of Pages: 313 Review By: Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: A train crashes in the mountains during one of the worst snow storms in Norwegian history, trapping a couple of hundred survivors in a hotel 1222 metres above sea level. One of the …
Author: Miyuki Miyabe Publisher: Kodansha International Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9784770031044 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets. Someone has unlawfully removed a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for a lost pet goes missing, possibly drowned in the sewers. Is it murder …
Author: Carolyn Morwood Publisher: Pulp Fiction Press Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780975112939 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: Death and the Spanish Lady is the first novel in a trilogy featuring Sister Eleanor Jones. The year is 1919 and Eleanor has returned to Melbourne after nursing in France. Her intention to knit herself up after …
Author: Tami Hoag Publisher: Orion Books Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780752898964 No of Pages: 432 Price: $29.99 Review By: Gaile Hughes Book Synopsis: Once upon a time I had the perfect family. I had the perfect husband. I had the perfect children. I had the perfect life in the perfect home. And then, as in …
Author: Vanda Symon Publisher: Penguin Copyright Year: 2009 ISBN: 9780143202295 Review By: Karen Chisholm Book Synopsis: Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana when shipping containers wash up on the beach and are looted. Detective Constable Sam Shepard knows first-hand the desperation of the scavengers- she’s got the scars to prove it. Plus a …
Author: Margie Orford Publisher: Atlantic Books Copyright Year: 2007 ISBN: 978 1 84354 944 4 No of Pages: 351 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namibia …
Author: Margie Orford Publisher: Atlantic Books Copyright Year: 2006 ISBN: 978 1 84354 943 7 No of Pages: 314 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler, Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial …
Author: Anna Haebich Publisher: UWA Publishing Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 9781921401459 No of Pages: 208 Review By: Sharon Halasz Book Synopsis: Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother cause a furore in Perth in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, citizens demand her execution as …
Author: Leah Giarratano Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2010 Review By: Sylvia Loader Book Synopsis: Miriam Caine, aged seventy, is dining with her son when she bursts into flames in the restaurant of a five-star hotel. The restaurant’s manager, Troy Berrigan, is first to her aid, but the woman later dies of her injuries. When …