Crime Scene: ANDREW TAYLOR The Scent of Death. Reviewed by Peter Corris
The winner of the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, this impressive historical crime novel gives a hard-edged depiction of the mindlessness of war. The...
Read MoreCrime Scene: ANGELA SAVAGE The Dying Beach: Jayne Keeney PI in Krabi; PETER COTTON Dead Cat Bounce. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
Two recent Australian crime novels – a PI mystery set in Thailand and a police procedural in Canberra – give a strong sense of place. The Dying Beach is the third Jayne...
Read MoreCrime Scene: JENNY SPENCE No Safe Place. Reviewed by Morgan Smith
This novel introduces a new, very 21st-century Australian crime series full of tension. For women crime readers ‘of a certain age’, Melbourne debut novelist Jenny...
Read MoreCrime Scene: ROBERT GALBRAITH The Cuckoo’s Calling. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
This is an accomplished and complex crime novel from the alter-ego of J K Rowling. The draft of this review was written before I knew ‘Robert Galbraith’ was...
Read MoreCrime Scene: ANNIE HAUXWELL A Bitter Taste; ALEX HAMMOND Blood Witness. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
The second in a series set in London and a debut legal thriller show some of the exciting variety of Australian crime fiction on offer. In A Bitter Taste, Catherine...
Read MoreJUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ The Sound of Things Falling. Reviewed by Rosana Bouzas
This mystery is set in a Columbia emerging from the drug wars and haunted by memory and loss. The Sound of Things Falling, a noir fiction account of Colombia’s drug...
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