The Glasgow Smile

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 27/03/2024 - 1:57pm by Karen

The book cover for Glasgow Smile by Chris Stuart includes the tagline 'The Award Wining Author of For Reasons of Their Own' at the top of a mostly white cover which has a brick wall textured background, blending down to a black banner at the bottom the has the title of the book displayed on it in white lettering. In the centre of the wall there's a painted set of lips, right red in colour, leading out towards the right where they go out of shape and end up a red slash with black stitches across it. There's a woman in black jeans and a short leather jacket standing in front of the lips she has white hair and her arms are hanging loosely by her sides. There's crime scene tape behind here that goes all the way across the image.

Inside every person you think you know, there is someone you dont know. Contemporary crime thriller set in the grimy tangled innercity laneways in Melbourne.

In a grimy graffiti covered recess a woman is found stabbed and strangled. "why would anyone want to kill her, she was...Read more

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For Reasons of their Own

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 21/10/2021 - 1:16pm by Karen

The book cover of For Reasons of Their Own by Chris Stuart is made up of the image of an Australian passport towards the bottom, slightly tilted, with a large goldish coloured immigration stamp dated 2 May over the top of it. The backgrouind is blurred orange, with a couple of lines of faded crime scene tape across it.

Robbie Gray, a talented but troubled Detective Inspector stationed in Melbourne, who has fallen foul of police bureaucracy, is called to a investigate a dead body found in a rural wetland swamp. Under-resourced, with a corpse that cannot be identified and no apparent motive for the murder,...Read more

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