by NRB | 13 Sep 2016 | Crime Scene |
The Foundation is the first book in a fun and gripping thriller series featuring a tough and resourceful Australian journalist. We first meet Jack Emery in The Foundation as he wakes from a drunken slumber, late for his morning meeting at his newspaper. Life is tough;...
by NRB | 18 Aug 2016 | Crime Scene |
There is a very good reason for all the buzz around about The Dry, another great debut thriller from an Australian writer. In a country with a lot of mythology built around rural connections, it has always come as a surprise how much of Australia’s rural-based...
by NRB | 9 Aug 2016 | Crime Scene |
Zane Lovitt, winner of the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, has produced an original Melbourne take on the noir crime novel. Black Teeth is peopled by loners. A protagonist who suffers breathless anxiety in public, his neighbour who cloisters herself away in her flat, an absent...
by NRB | 26 Jul 2016 | Crime Scene |
Two Australian thriller writers have each set their latest novels amid the beauty and danger of Antarctica. Antarctica is one of the planet’s last great wilderness areas – for some, a place ripe for plundering, for others, an area that must be protected. Ann...
by NRB | 21 Jul 2016 | Crime Scene |
A third Le Fanu crime novel in under two years will keep Brian Stoddart’s growing army of readers happy. When the story opens in the 1920s we find Chris Le Fanu undertaking higher duties as Acting Inspector-General of Police for the Madras Presidency with continuing...
by NRB | 28 Jun 2016 | Crime Scene |
Inspired by the true events surrounding an unsolved murder, Dark Fires Shall Burn is set in Sydney’s Newtown in the aftermath of World War II. The title of Anna Westbrook’s debut novel is wonderful. Based around a stanza from the Australian poet Dorothy...
by NRB | 14 Jun 2016 | Crime Scene |
A new femme fatale is born in Maestra, an addictive erotic thriller set against the glamorous backdrop of the European art world. Meet Judith Rashleigh: sexy, educated, poised. By day she is employed as a junior art expert at British Pictures, one of London’s best art...
by NRB | 2 Jun 2016 | Crime Scene |
The groundbreaking Women Writers and Detectives is a jam-packed rethink of the history of crime/mystery/detective fiction. Melbourne-based Lucy Sussex has won awards for her own crime and sci-fi stories, and for the neo-Victorian ‘puzzle novel’ The Scarlet Rider. Her...
by NRB | 17 May 2016 | Crime Scene |
Literary icon Tom Keneally has teamed up with daughter Meg to launch a detective series set in Australia’s brutal past. Readers can feel totally confident in the veracity of the convict-era setting of The Soldier’s Curse. Although Booker laureate Tom needs no...
by NRB | 10 May 2016 | Crime Scene |
A Murder Without Motive is an intriguing and compelling true crime with much to say about the Australian suburbs and the national psyche. Martin McKenzie-Murray, the Saturday Paper’s chief correspondent, has written a gripping true crime story about a murder that...
by NRB | 28 Apr 2016 | Crime Scene |
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Lucy Sussex is a renowned crime fiction expert, researcher and editor, originally from New Zealand, now from...
by NRB | 31 Mar 2016 | Crime Scene |
Steeped in the smells and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, weighted by the sinister atmosphere of a private world of terrible crimes, Ghost Girls is a remarkable debut novel. The combination of plot, character and setting in Ghost Girls is perfectly balanced, and the...
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