Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 13/09/2024 - 12:40pm by Karen

The book cover for Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack has a bright blue background that has some watery shadows towards the bottom. There's a woman with long black hair, in a red bikini floating face down right at the bottom in the right corner. There is a spray of yellow lemons to the left at the top. The quotes 'Fabulous!' Liv Constantine and 'A madcap Italian odyssey!' Jessa Maxwell are at the top of the cover in yellow. Then the author's name in white, and the title of the book in large black shadow lettering.

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.

All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation...Read more

Waking the Tiger

BOOK ADDED: Sat, 10/08/2024 - 5:46pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery ' and the quote 'A wonderfully accomplished debut. ... Wightman is a writer we can expect great things of.' Abir Mukherjee The image has a red, textured background shot with gold, there is half the figure of an Asian woman standing on the right, her head tipped slightly down, looking towards the left. There is a large building at the bottom with a tall clock tower in the centre, and the title of the novel has a golden tiger standing in front of the T in Tiger.

Singapore, 1939

A young Japanese woman is found dead on the dockside, her throat slashed

Inspector Maximo Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen...Read more

It Takes a Town

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 18/04/2024 - 11:37am by Karen

The image of the book cover for It Takes a Town ... to Solve a Murder by Aoife Clifford is a white background with a red border, the main title in large red lettering, and the subtitle (... to Solve a Murder) in smaller black lettering, followed by the author's name at the bottom. Spread around the outside edges are green "blobs" for want of a better word that contain small tableau's - a woman standing at the top of the stairs, a figure seen through a caravan window, a shot of a tower and and trees, a woman standing in front of a window, her hand on a Venetian blind cord, and a man in a hat, with his dog, standing beside water.

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?
 
Everyone dies famous in a country town, but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star. A celebrity since a television commercial when she was a child, Vanessa is back on the front page for...Read more

Lure the Lie

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 15/03/2022 - 12:00am by Karen

The book cover of [Lure the lie] by Cat Connor includes the quote 'Cat Connor writes economically, with a dash of Evanovich, to smoothly deliver another well-crafted, well-paced, top-notch thriller. - Bruce Melrose author of the John Kelly novels.' The image is a plain brown / orange background with the title of the book in the centre (including the square brackets around it), the author's name also surrounded by square brackets at the bottom.

In New Zealand indefinitely and finally out from behind a desk and back in the field, Australian intelligence officer Dave Crocker (aka Crockett) is tasked with locating a missing cryptographer, Tania Bateman. His boss decided that Crockett should work with a private investigator Veronica...Read more