By Janice Hallett The story revolves around a group of community theatre actors who have responded to an appeal sent out by their director. Someone ends up dead and the novel is written as series of emails interspersed with the musings of the detectives who are on this puzzling case. It is an original and […]
[Continue reading...]We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By Tsering Yangsom Lama In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. Their parents do not survive the journey. The sisters are fiercely loyal to each other. This story is compelling, the characters intimately drawn and the voices so […]
[Continue reading...]Our Best Intentions
By; Bihuti Jain This is a suspensful read about a daughter (Angie) and her dad (Bobby) who are trying to fit into a community that is dripping with privilege and racism. Angie comes across the brother of an ex-friend of hers bleeding from a stab wound in his abdomen. Angie does her best to recall […]
[Continue reading...]Dirt Creek by Haley scrivenor
12 year old Esther disappears on her way home from school. Her best friend Ronnie is determined to find her. Their “sort of” friend Lewis is holding something back. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels is called in to investigate. Everybody has a secret and nobody in this small “dirt” town in the outbacks of Australia seems […]
[Continue reading...]Those who knew by Idra Novey
When do you speak out and at what cost? The story takes place on an unamed island in the aftermath of a US supported regime that has wreaked havok on the island people. Lena suspects that a powerful senator she was once involved with has murdered a young woman in his employ. What follows is […]
[Continue reading...]The Cloisters By Katy Hays
Ann Stilwell gets a job at the Cloisters, a museum and garden that is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. There she meets Patrick, who is her supervisor and is working with art dealers to locate a pack of 15th Century tarot cards. Ann and her colleague, Rachel, become embroiled in […]
[Continue reading...]Fortune Favours the Dead
By Stephen Spotswood I’ve just read Murder under her skin which follows Fortune Favours the Dead. These books are set in post-WWII USA. Will and Ms Pentacost are two of the most unlikely characters to ever to be drawn as detectives, but detectives they are and they don’t fit that post war mould of what […]
[Continue reading...]The Appeal
By Janice Hallett An amateur theater group starts a fundraising campaign when their director tells them that his granddaughter is in need of a very expensive drug to cure her of cancer. Someone is murdered and the chief inspector has asked two of his detectives to go through the emails that have been circulating prior […]
[Continue reading...]The Personal Assistant
by Kimberley Belle Alex is a professional influencer who hires the perfect personal assistant. But maybe not so perfect? The twists surprised me (a seasoned who dunnit afficiano) and I found the characters interesting, the plot fast moving and the dialogue intelligent. A great read!
[Continue reading...]Exiles
By Jane Harper I love all of Jane Harper books; The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and most recently, Exiles. Aaron Faulk, a Federal Inspector, has come to the small town where his close friend’s family is celebrating the arrival of their latest child. While there a woman disappears and he […]
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