In 2006 a group of people got together to build a database of Crime Fiction Authors and Books based primarily around Australasia (Australia / New Zealand and nearby). Because we could.
It started out as a wiki, morphed to the Drupal CMS and then wandered around through various iterations of that environment because nowadays it's a personal venue for my reading activities.
Which is why it's just gone through yet another iteration - to become more of a personal reading database as well as a review platform / book listing site. Keeping track of what I'm reading, what I should be reading, what I did read, and where the hell I'm up to has become an increasing nightmare and try as I might I can't find an online cataloguing system that meets my needs I've had little success. So I'm building one here. Hence you will find listings that seem to be nothing to do with reviewing and everything to do with me managing a workload that's supposed to be a hobby and has become a bit of a nightmare (granted not a bad one to have but still it's embarrassing sometimes).
Of course it's also morphed into including books from other locations, books I've actually read, ones I should have read on the various stacks about the place, and ones that I want even though I'll never live long enough to read everything waiting.
There are still reviews. There are still books, there are still opinions or just simply updates in the form of blogs.
It's a place that you're very welcome to wander about in (start with Tag Clouds if you like). As has always been the case - if you don't like something you see here, please feel free to move on.
NOTE 1: Comments are mostly disabled and those that are enabled are moderated. It might take a while to publish them, it might never happen.
NOTE 2: And I CANNOT stress this one enough. This is a private site. I have no affiliation with any author or publisher whose work is listed on this site. There is absolutely no point in using this site to get in touch with any authors or people other than the site owner. They won't be passed on. They will be deleted. And for goodness sake - do not dox yourself. Do not send me your personal information / family trees / phone numbers / whatever. This site has a database and I can give no guarantees that it will never to be breached.