Karen from AustCrime's Blog – October 2011 Archive (3)

Review - Counter Attack, Mark Abernethy

Book Title:   COUNTER ATTACK

Author: Mark Abernethy

ISBN:   9781741759396

Series:   Alan McQueen

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2011

Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. But any dreams Mac has of a cosy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. And when things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 27, 2011 at 5:51pm — No Comments

Review - Death of the Mantis, Michael Stanley

Book Title:   DEATH OF THE MANTIS

Author: Michael Stanley

ISBN:   9780755381159

Location:   Botswana

Series:   Kubu Bengu

Publisher:   Headline

Year of Publication:   2011

When a Kalahari ranger is found dead in a dry ravine, his corpse surrounded by three Bushmen, the local police arrest the nomads. Botswana's Detective 'Kubu' Bengu investigates the case and is reunited with his old school friend Khumanego, a Bushman and advocate for his people. Khumanego… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 25, 2011 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Review - Containment, Vanda Symon

Book Title:   CONTAINMENT

Author: Vanda Symon

ISBN:   9780143202295

Publisher:   Penguin

Year of Publication:   2009

Detective Constable Sam Shepard knows first-hand the desperation of the scavengers- she's got the scars to prove it. Plus a skull in the sand. And a body pulled from the ocean. The undercurrents from one morning's madness are far-reaching. Who else will be caught in the backwash? Can Sam stem the tide?…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 20, 2011 at 3:43pm — No Comments