Book Title: STONEDOGS
Author: Craig Marriner
Publisher: Vintage
Copyright: 2001
ISBN: 1-86941-476-4
No of Pages: 375
Book Synopsis:
In between drug deals and binge-drinking, reckless driving and street fights, the delinquents of the Brotherhood wage the holiest of wars. Yes, they will derail the Juggernaut before it can suicide . or have a ball trying at least. But when one of them falls prey to Roto-Vegas gang members, the cultural terrorists mobilise in earnest.
Revenge takes them on a road…
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Book Title: LENNOX
Author: Craig Russell
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-74175-930-3
No of Pages: 329
Book Synopsis:
Private investigator Lennox stands somewhere between legal and illegal, honour and greed, crims and cops. The one clear thing about Lennox is his certainty that only the toughest and most ruthless survive in his home town of Glasgow.
The McGahern twins are on the way up in Glasgow's grimy underworld. Then Tam, the brains of the pair, is killed in a vici…
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Book Title: THE BILLIONAIRE'S CURSE
Author: Richard Newsome
Publisher: Text Publishing (Young Adult / Children's Writing)
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921520-57-0
No of Pages: 355
Book Synopsis:
Someone has stolen the world’s most valuable diamond and a constable lies unconscious in the British Museum, two sedative darts protruding from his backside.
Not something Gerald Wilkins knows or cares anything about.
Not until he finds himself on a private luxury jet heading for London to attend the…
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Book Title: PANDAEMONIUM
Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Little, Brown
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4087-0060-0
No of Pages: 394
Book Synopsis:
The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat at a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer - not to mention booze, drugs, clandestine liaisons and as much partying as they can get away with.…
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Book Title: THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO
Author: Nick Cave
Publisher: Text Publishing
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921520-63-1
No of Pages: 278
Book Synopsis:
Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the scent of adventure to the lonely housewives of England's south coast. Set adrift by his wife's death, he hits the road one last time - with his young son in tow.
Book Review:
Despite the title, THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO is not strictly a novel from my preferred genre of crime fiction. Defining exactl…
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Book Title: STILL MIDNIGHT
Author: Denise Mina
Publisher: Orion
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0094-2
No of Pages: 356
Book Synopsis:
It's the case that could make DS Alex Morrow's career, it would make any cop salivate. A home invaded in the dead of night, deep in the heart of the cosy suburbs, a hard working family at the heart of it and a vulnerable old man taken hostage. It's high profile: a black-and-white case and it shouldn't be too hard to solve...
The attackers were slovenly. The t…
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Book Title: SINGING TO THE DEAD
Author: Caro Ramsay
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-14-102925-2
No of Pages: 510
Book Synopsis:
Two seven-year old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal - but for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter...
Then, with police resources stretched to breaking point, a simple house fire turns into a f…
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Book Title: SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Author: Adam Creed
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-571-24364-8
No of Pages: 321
Book Synopsis:
DI Will Wagstaffe - Staffe to friends and enemies alike - is a man with many burdens. On the eve of leaving for a personal trip abroad he is called to the scene of a horrific crime, a known paedophile has been butchered in his own home.
Book Review:
SUFFER THE CHILDREN is the first book introducing DI Will Wagstaffe. A confession early on - I t…
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Book Title: DEAD-END ROAD
Author: Richard Kunzmann
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 9780330446488
Book Synopsis:
After two years' absence, Detective Harry Mason has rejoined the South African Police Service, but is now moved to the Serious and Violent Crimes unit.
Book Review:
DEAD-END ROAD is third novel Detective Harry Mason novel from South African author Richard Kunzmann - the earlier books are BLOODY HARVESTS and SALAMANDER COTTON. It was the first of this series that I've…
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Book Title: THE DARK SIDE
Author: Roger Rogerson
Publisher: Kerr Publishing
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 9780958128315
No of Pages: 224
Book Synopsis:
Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia.
He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; portrayed in TV dramas; and recorded by covert listening devices at home for months.
Rogerson took up his own pen in prison. Out, he wal…
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Adrian was kind enough to take some time out of his busy life to answer a few questions about
FIFTY GRAND which I was lucky enough to review recently.
AustCrime: FIFTY GRAND takes you into a slightly different place from THE DEAD trilogy in particular, having said that, there are also some similarities. Do you have a particular interest in the outsider taking control, stepping into the unknown without fear or favour…
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Book Title: TRUTH
Author: Peter Temple
Publisher: Text Publishing
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921520-71-6
No of Pages: 387
Book Synopsis:
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.
Villani's job as head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. His life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering su…
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Book Title: SHALLOW WATER
Author: Stuart Black
Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921362-93-4
No of Pages: 344
Book Synopsis:
A lifeless body by the side of the road in Notting Hill... A gorgeous but high maintenance wife self-destructing because she's been denied access to the family fortune ... Another death - this time in the shallows of the stunning Great Barrier Reef...
Book Review:
Stuart Black, ad exec turned author has his first book out - SHALLOW WATER - in…
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Book Title: FIFTY GRAND
Author: Adrian McKinty
Publisher: Serpents Tail
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1846687235
No of Pages: 308
Book Synopsis:
Cuban cop Mercado has a score to settle, on behalf of a deadbeat dad, a 'traitor' who skipped free from Castro's control to set up a new life working illegally in Colorado. He settled in a ski resort popular with the Hollywood set, where a facade of legality is maintained by the immigrant cleaners and labourers working for below minimum wage - while the l…
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Book Title: DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER
Author: Robin Adair
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-921518-25-6
No of Pages: 311
Book Synopsis:
One of the convict colony's soldiers has been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased.
Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help.
Book Review:
DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER is the book that won Penguin's last Most Wanted Crime Writing competition, and there's a comment in the acknowledgements that explain a little about…
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Book Title: OUTSIDE THE LAW 3
Author: Lindy Cameron (ed)
Publisher: Five Mile Press
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-74211-588-7
No of Pages: 295
Book Synopsis:
Good cops, bad cops, killer husbands, homicidal women, thieves, firebugs, art heists and jailbreaks.
In Outside the Law 3 some of our best crime writers take you on a walk down the darkest side of life.
You’ll meet crooks who just can’t help themselves; killers with twisted logic or hearts of darkness; and cops who daily walk the thinnest…
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Book Title: THE TOWER
Author: Michael Duffy
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-74175-813-9
No of Pages: 454
Book Synopsis:
Young detective Nicholas Troy is basically a good man, for whom homicide investigations are the highest form of police work. But when a woman falls from the construction site for the world's tallest skyscraper, the tortured course of the murder investigation that follows threatens to destroy his vocation.
Hampered by incompetent colleagues and organi…
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At a fantastic night out and ceremony last night the Sisters in Crime 2009 Davitt Award winners were announced, wined, dined, feted and photographed.
The nights festivities were highlighted by a chat between Sue Turnbull and Justice Elizabeth King of the Supreme Court of Victoria, some fabulous food and 130+ Sisters in Crime and Brothers in Law turning out on a cold Melbourne night to celebrate some absolutely fantastic authors and books.
But without further ado - the winners of the categories…
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Book Title: MURDER ON A MIDSUMMER NIGHT
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-74114-999-9
No of Pages: 292
Book Synopsis:
Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of a man on St Kilda beach and trying to find a lost, illegimate child who could be heir to a wealthy old w…
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Book Title: BRUNO CHIEF OF POLICE
Author: Martin Walker
Publisher: Quercus
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84724-977-7
No of Pages: 262
Book Synopsis:
It's market day in St Denis, a small town in the Perigord region of south-west France. The locals are on the alert because inspectors are about to make a 'surprise visit', hoping to enforce the unpopular and bureaucratic EU hygiene rules. But for Captain Bruno Courteges, St Denis' Chief of Police, this particular market day turns into something far…
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