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Review - The Priest of Evil, Matti Joensuu

Book Title:   THE PRIEST OF EVIL

Author:   Matti Joensuu

Publisher: Eurocrime

Copyright: 2006

ISBN:   1-900850-93-1

No of Pages:   204

Book Synopsis:

There have been a strange succession of violent deaths at Helsinki tube stations. The police are baffled: nobody has seen anything and the tapes from CCTV show nothing.

Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit has experienced more than enough of the seamier side of… Continue

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Review - Black Ice, Hans Werner Kettenbach

Book Title: BLACK ICE

Author:   Hans Werner Kettenbach

Publisher:   Bitter Lemon Press

Copyright:   2005

ISBN:   1-904738-08-7

No of Pages:   224

Book Synopsis:

Erica, an attractive local heiress, is married to Wallman, a man with expensive tastes. When she falls to her death near their lakeside villa, the police conclude it was a tragic accident. Scholten, a long time employee of Erica's, isn't so sure. He knows a thing or two about the true state of… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 21, 2011 at 4:32pm — 1 Comment

Review - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End - Leif G.W. Persson

Book Title:   BETWEEN SUMMER'S LONGING AND WINTER'S END

Author:   Leif G.W. Persson

Publisher:   Doubleday

Copyright:   2010

ISBN:   978-0-385-61418-4

No of Pages:   551

Book Synopsis:

It begins with the apparent suicide of a young American student in Stockholm. What is at first an open and shut case of suicide quickly leads to a complex web of international espionage, treachery and ultimately the legendary murder of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme.… Continue

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Review - A Death in Tuscany, Michele Giuttari

Book Title:   A DEATH IN TUSCANY

Author:   Michele Giuttari

Publisher:   Abacus

Copyright:   2008

ISBN:   978-0-349-12007-2

No of Pages:   381

Book Synopsis:

In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, with no purse or other possessions, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The local police investigate the case - but after a week they still haven't even identified her, let alone got to the… Continue

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Review - The Serbian Dane, Leif Davidsen

Book Title:   THE SERBIAN DANE

Author:   Leif Davidsen

Publisher:   Eurocrime

Copyright:   2007

ISBN:   1905147120

No of Pages:   267

Book Synopsis:

LISE CARLSEN: A successful journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marriage.

PER TOFTLUND: A crack member of Denmark's secret service, a lone wolf: unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work.

VUK: a highly skilled political assassin who has lost…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 11, 2011 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Review - The Genesis Flaw, L.A. Larkin

Book Title:   THE GENESIS FLAW

Author:   L.A. Larkin

Publisher:   Pier 9

Copyright:   2010

ISBN:   978-1-1741967883

No of Pages:   360

Book Synopsis:

Human experiments in Zimbabwe. An Australian farmer's death. A Sydney CEO's suicide. Only one woman sees the connection. Serena Swift is a ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience who takes on the world's most powerful biotech company - Gene-Asis.

Serena hooks up with a hacker and… Continue

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Review - The Celtic Dagger, Jill Paterson

Book Title:   THE CELTIC DAGGER

Author:   Jill Paterson

Publisher:   Gibbes Street

Copyright:   2010

ISBN:   9781921517129

No of Pages:   221

Book Synopsis:

University professor Alex Wearing has been murdered in his study, and the weapon is a valuable museum artefact. His brother, James, is the key suspect in Inspector Fitzjohn's investigations.

In this gripping tale of intrigue, James and Fitzjohn follow different paths in their own search for… Continue

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Review - Harbour, John Ajvide Lindqvist

Book Title:   HARBOUR

Author:   John Ajvide Lindqvist

Publisher:   Text Publishing

Copyright:   2010

ISBN:   978-1-921656-67-5

No of Pages:   500

Book Synopsis:

On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.

And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.

Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk,… Continue

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Review - Follow the Money, Peter Corris

Book Title:   FOLLOW THE MONEY

Author:   Peter Corris

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Copyright:   2011

ISBN:   978-1-74237-379-9

No of Pages:   260

Book Synopsis:

Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he's in trouble. The economy's tanking and he's been conned by an unscrupulous financial advisor and lost everything he's got. Cliff only knows one way, and that's forward, so he's following the money trail. It's a twisted road that leads him down deep… Continue

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Review - The Likeness, Tana French

Book Title: THE LIKENESS

Author: Tana French

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Copyright: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-340-92478-5

No of Pages: 553

Book Synopsis:

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID shows she… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 30, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Review - Into the Shadows, Shirley Wells

Book Title: INTO THE SHADOWS

Author: Shirley Wells

Publisher: Carroll & Graf

Copyright: 2007

ISBN: 978-0-78671-963-1

No of Pages: 304

Book Synopsis:

When Rodney Hill, wrongly arrested for a series of murders, hangs himself, Jill Kennedy the forensic psychologist whose profile led to Hill's arrest, gives up her work with the police and moves to the peaceful village of Kelton Bridge to write self-help books, enjoy a quiet life with her cats and perhaps… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 24, 2010 at 10:53am — No Comments

Review - Death Mask, Kathryn Fox

Book Title: DEATH MASK

Author: Kathryn Fox

Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4050-3995-6

No of Pages: 352

Book Synopsis:

Forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton is presented with a patient who has returned from her honeymoon with multiple sexually transmitted infections.

Her husband has none of them. She tearfully denies having had any other partners and Anya believes her. Is this a medical phenomenon or has something more… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 23, 2010 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Review - The Anniversary Man, R.J. Ellory

Book Title: THE ANNIVERSARY MAN

Author: R.J. Ellory

Publisher: Orion

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-7528-9875-9

No of Pages: 390

Book Synopsis:

Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended.

He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, became victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. This murderer went after young courting couples in an attempt to 'save their… Continue

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Review - Last Nocturne, Marjorie Eccles

Book Title: LAST NOCTURNE

Author: Marjorie Eccles

Publisher: Allison and Busby

Copyright: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-7490-8079-2

No of Pages: 409

Book Synopsis:

What could make a successful, happily married man like Eliot Martagon take a gun and shoot himself? What made Theo Benton, a young artist on the brink of fame, throw himself to his death?

These are the questions facing the dapper Chief Inspector Lamb and his stolid assistant, Detective Sergeant… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 17, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Review - Caught, Harlan Coben

Book Title: CAUGHT

Author: Harlan Coben

Publisher: Orion

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 9781409112501

No of Pages: 388

Book Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 16, 2010 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment

Review - If It Bleeds, Duncan Campbell

Book Title: IF IT BLEEDS

Author: Duncan Campbell

Publisher: Headline

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-7553-4250-1

No of Pages: 373

Book Synopsis:

Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion.

Who has killed the last of the London Godfathers, the man who used to be a driver… Continue

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Review - Hypothermia, Arnaldur Indridason

Book Title: HYPOTHERMIA

Author: Arnauldur Indridason

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-846-55262-5

No of Pages: 314

Book Synopsis:

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight, it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Maria, has never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Review - The Burning Wire, Jeffery Deaver

Book Title: THE BURNING WIRE

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-0-340-93729-7

No of Pages: 412

Book Synopsis:

New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan's electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack . . . and more are planned.

While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 4, 2010 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Review - Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden

Book Title: THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE

Author: Joseph Boyden

Publisher: Orion

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-297-85291-9

No of Pages: 359

Book Synopsis:

Fifteen years after the death of their patriarch, the Bird Clan finds itself struggling to survive on the hardscrabble reservation it calls home.

On Christmas Day, the youngest of the clan, beautiful Suzanne Bird, leaves by snowmobile with her boyfriend Gus Netmaker, against both families' wishes, hoping… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 3, 2010 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Review - Pelagia & The Red Rooster, Boris Akunin

Book Title: PELAGIA AND THE RED ROOSTER

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-0-297-85297-1

No of Pages: 410

Book Synopsis:

Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - an an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Pelagia finds herself aboard the Steamer Sturgeon, dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But the brutal murder of the would-be Messiah in the cabin next door… Continue

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