A Real Shot in the Arm, by Annette Roome
A Plot Summary:
When Chris Martin — housewife and mother-of-two —…
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The Dying Beach is the third Jayne Keeney book from Angela Savage, following on closely from Behind the Night Bazaar and The Half-Child. The series is set in various parts of Thailand, a country Private Investigator Keeney, originally from Melbourne, loves and feels a strong affinity for. Review at …
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The body of popular Environment Minister and leadership contender Susan Wright turns up on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in the company of a recently deceased cat likewise dumped in the mud. Then a particularly unpopular government head-kicker (aka ‘advisor’) is found in similar circumstances, followed by further disappearances. including the kidnapping of our central hero – Detective Darren Glass. Review at …
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Title: DRIVE BY
Author: Michael Duffy
ISBN: 9781743312636
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Category: Crime Fiction
Location: Sydney
Book Synopsis
John Habib is the mechanic son of a Muslim Lebanese-Australian crime family in Sydney's Western suburbs. His oldest brother is in a maximum security prison, his middle brother is becoming increasingly fundamentalist, and his younger brother Rafi is on trial for a murder he swears he…
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What is the secret to good crime writing? No one better to ask than a group of Australia's leading crime writers. Their conclusions are fascinating, provocative, often surprising, and they are all drawn from the hard school of personal experience. What pieces of advice do the writers have in common? That there is no substitute for hard work! One tells us there is no such thing as writer's block - "just do it" is a common theme. There is a fun part though: research. The writers could not vary…
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Title: DARK HORSE
Author Name: Honey Brown
Author's Home Country: Australia
ISBN: 9781921901539
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Category: Thriller
Location: Victorian Country
Book Synopsis
It's Christmas morning on the edge of the rugged Mortimer Ranges. Sarah Barnard saddles Tansy, her black mare. She is heading for the bush, escaping the reality of her broken marriage and her bankrupted trail-riding business.Sarah…
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Title: ROTTEN GODS
Author Name: Greg Barron
Author's Home Country: Australia
ISBN: 9780732294342
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Harper Collins
Category: Thriller
Location: Dubai, Somalia
Book Synopsis
The near future. Climate change is causing havoc in coastal areas and the world is in economic and ecological crisis. World leaders gather at a billion-dollar conference centre in Dubai, determined to make the decisions necessary to…
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Title: MAD MEN, BAD GIRLS AND THE GUERRILLA KNITTERS INSTITUTE
Author Name: Maggie Groff
Author's Home Country: Australia
ISBN: 9781742610795
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia
Location: Gold Coast, Byron Bay
Book Synopsis
When a secretive American cult moves to the Gold Coast, freelance journalist Scout Davis's investigative antennae start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs and bizarre…
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Title: OUT OF THE SILENCE
Author: Wendy James
ISBN: B00BMFEUPS
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Momentum Books
Location: Melbourne
Book Synopsis
I call his name – only quietly, but he hears me as I knew he would, and wants me as he always does. And we come together – right there in the darkness. And even though there is no way to be certain of any other thing in the world, I am certain that I would risk anything to keep what is between the two…
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Title: RED DIRT TALKING
Author: Jacqueline Wright
ISBN: 9781921888793
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Year of Publication: 2012
Location: Outback, Western Australia
Book Synopsis
Set in the outback of Western Australia, this novel centres around the disappearance of Kuj, an eight-year-old girl, during a bitter custody battle. Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from the city, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mysterious event. As…
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Title: DEAD GIRL SING
Author: Tony Cavanaugh
ISBN: 9780733627880
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Series: Darian Richards
Year of Publication: 2013
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Synopsis
Darian Richards knew he should have let the phone keep ringing. But more than two decades as a cop leaves you with a certain outlook on life. No matter how much he tried to walk away, something, or someone, kept bringing him back to his gun.
One phone…
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Book Title: ANTIDOTE TO MURDER
Author: Felicity Young
ISBN: 9780732293697
Series: Dody McCleland
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Harper Collins
Location: London (Edwardian)
Book Synopsis
When an act of compassion misfires, autopsy surgeon Dr Dody McCleland must fight not only for her career, but also for her life.
The body of a scullery maid is discovered in her room. When it emerges that she had recently begged Dody to terminate…
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Book Title: THE FIRST SHOT
Author: Patricia Kristensen
Author's Home Country: Australia
ISBN: 9781618971630
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Synopsis
Murder, cannibalism, kidnapping and breach of copyright hit the sleepy state of Tasmania. To make ends meet, law student Jennifer Shot rents rooms to Nathan, Rod and Cindy, two oversexed fellow law students, and a police officer with personal issues.…
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Book Title: ROLL WITH IT
Author: Nick Place
ISBN: 9781742704333
Series: Tony 'Rocket' Laver
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Category: Crime Fiction / Police Procedural / Humour
Location: Melbourne
Synopsis
Career cop Detective Senior Sergeant Tony ‘Rocket' Laver is a policeman with issues. Sure, he may have been returning fire, but the fact remains that Laver is the sixth Victorian policeman to shoot a suspect in four…
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Title: THE TOE TAG QUINTET
Author: Matthew Condon
ISBN: 9781742756691
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Random House Australia
Crime Fiction / Short Stories
Location: Gold Coast, Brisbane
Synopsis
Retirement can be murder!
The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with half…
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Book Title: MURDER WITH THE LOT
Author: Sue Williams
ISBN: 9781922079787
Series: Cass Tuplin
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Text Publishing
Location: Mallee, Victoria
Synopsis
A smart, sassy self-appointed private investigator, Cass Tuplin is unforgettable and the town of Rusty Bore will never be the same...
Cass Tuplin's takeaway isn't the last shop left in Rusty Bore. There's also Vern's General Store. But it's true the town's not…
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Book Title: THE ICON MURDERS
Author: Noel Mealey
ISBN: 9780732293673
Series: Syd Fielding
Year of Publication: 2013
Publisher: Harper Collins
Location: Western Australia
Synopsis
A spate of vicious murders around Australia has police puzzled until Detective Syd Fielding, now head of a national drug prevention squad, finds the link that draws them together.
The problem is, the link appears to be him. Syd′s always been a loose cannon…
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Book Title: THE PRICE OF FAME
Author: R C Daniells
ISBN: 978-0-9873419-2-1
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
Category: Crime Fiction / Paranormal
Location: Melbourne
Book Synopsis
Where will Antonia’s search for truth lead and who will suffer?
When film and TV graduate, Antonia Carlyle sets out to make a documentary about eighties band, ‘The Tough Romantics’, she uncovers new facts surrounding the death of singer…
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Book Title: ROUGH DIAMOND
Author: Kathryn Ledson
ISBN: 9781742537559
Series: Erica Jewell
Year of Publication: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Australia
Location: Melbourne
Synopsis
Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum – the unforgettable Erica Jewell.
The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank balance and a bigger one in her heart. And now her life goals…
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This title was reviewed for the Newtown Review of Books
This novel of murder and military intelligence in wartime Melbourne is inspired by history.
While The Holiday Murders isn’t, sadly, a new William Powell book, Robert Gott has delivered another masterful crime novel steeped in Australia’s past.
For the full review:…
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