Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 22/10/2024 - 4:03pm by Karen

The book cover for Everyone this Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson is a white background with a greyed out dotted line joining the words of the title: Everyone - green with a Christmas light forming the o This - slightly angled in two shades of green Christmas - red with a Christmas tree with white lights on it forming the a Has A - slightly angled two shades of green with a white dove to the left standing on top of the S in the next word down Secret - Green lettering, slightly angled, with a top hat in front of / slightly under the T with a red explosion coming out of the top, pushing the T slightly upwards The Author's name is at the top of the book directly under the line 'The International Bestseller' with a quote at the very bottom 'An ingenious and hilarious meta-murder mystery.' Sunday Times

If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe...

My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found...Read more

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 21/10/2024 - 8:08pm by Karen

The book cover of Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne with the tagline 'Can she trust her memories?'. There's a quote at the top 'A book you will devour.' Sally Hepworth. The book cover is red, with the caricature of a female figure with her head forwards, hands over her eyes. She has a lot of wavy black hair and is wearing a yellow top and shoes, and black skirt. The title of the book is very large below that figure in white lettering.

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.

She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a...Read more

Best Served Cold

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 03/10/2024 - 12:36pm by Karen

The book cover for Best Served Cold by Kel Robertson includes the notation 'A Brad Chen Novel'. The image is mostly made up of a yellow and orangeish sky blending downards to purple hills with a large tower in the middle, standing over a few lights hinting at parts of Canberra.

After failed attempts to make a different future, Brad Chen returns to the Australian capital to reprise his role as the city's number one murder investigator. Where others see mere coincidence in the deaths of three friends, Chen soon sees clear and sinister purpose. His efforts to bring...Read more

Prize Catch

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 03/10/2024 - 12:11pm by Karen

The book cover for Prize Catch by Alan Carter includes the tag line 'From the Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel'. The image is a series of fish farm ponds in two lines out into a flat water bay with a small range of hills in the background and a cloudy, orange / red sky above. There's a small boat pulling away from the centre of the ponds.

A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy new crime novel from award-winning author Alan Carter.

When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an...Read more

When It Rains

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 03/10/2024 - 12:07pm by Karen

The book cover for When It Rains by Dave Warner includes the notation 'A Dan Clement Novel' and 'From the Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction'. The image is looking straight down on a body of water which has a crocodile swimming in it to the right hand side / top of the book. The water is slightly swirly with reeds t the left. The author's name is in large white lettering, and the book title in slightly blue lettering just below that

For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman' s hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters,...Read more

Southern Aurora

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 19/09/2024 - 8:47pm by Karen

The book cover for Southern Aurora by Mark Brandi includes the tagline 'Bestselling author of Wimmera and the Rip' and the quotes 'Literary crime fiction at its best' Books+Publishing on Wimmera and 'Clarity amid the darkness ... a reminder of the novel's capacity to create empathy' Weekend Australian on The Rip The image is of a young boy in a singlet and jeans standing with his back to the viewer, and hands resting against his hips. He's looking out over dry brown grass towards a pale blue, cloudy sky. There is another tagline at the bottom 'small-town life is unforgiving when you're from the other side of the tracks'

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows small-town life is unforgiving if you're from the other side of the tracks.

"We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes...Read more

Who We Were

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 06/09/2024 - 2:59pm by Karen

The book cover for Who We Were by B.M. Carroll includes the tagline 'All is not forgiven ... ' on a lined, blue background that looks like notepaper. There's a half smashed heart shaped red lollypop in the centre overlaid on the book title. The notepaper includes random doodles

IT'S BEEN TWENTY YEARS
BUT ALL IS NOT FORGIVEN

Katy is not the shy schoolgirl she once was, and she's looking forward to showing her classmates who she's become. Annabel was the queen bee, but her fall from grace changed her life forever. Zach was cruel, but he thinks...Read more