by NRB | 29 May 2020 | Crime Scene, Extracts, Fiction |
This week’s extract is from Leah Swann’s novel Sheerwater, a gripping story of missing children. When it opens, Ava is on the Great Ocean Road, driving to a new life in the little town of Sheerwater with her two young sons, Max and Teddy, her car jammed with their...
by NRB | 21 May 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Sujata Massey’s 1920s crime series featuring lawyer Perveen Mistry continues in the absorbingly tangled mystery of The Satapur Moonstone. India 1922: The Crown Prince of Satapur, Jiva Rao, is only 10 years old. His father and his elder brother have died, so he...
by NRB | 28 Apr 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Shortlisted for the Unpublished Manuscript Award in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Karina Kilmore’s debut has got a lot of Australian crime fiction fans talking. She was slipping away. The further she fell, the closer the clouds seemed to come....
by NRB | 10 Apr 2020 | Crime Scene, Extracts, Fiction |
This week our extract is from Chris Hammer’s second crime novel, Silver. It again features investigative journalist Martin Scarsden, who readers first met in Scrublands where – among other things – he fell for the beautiful Mandalay Blonde in the small Riverina town...
by NRB | 2 Apr 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Kirsten Alexander’s second novel evokes 1970s Queensland as it explores the fallout of a tragedy. In her acknowledgements at the end of Riptides, Kirsten Alexander touches on the difficulties she faced in writing about her home town: Anyone who grew up in...
by NRB | 28 Jan 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
A Murder at Malabar Hill is the first instalment of Sujata Massey’s crime series set in 1920s Bombay featuring lawyer Perveen Mistry. Bombay, February 1921. Perveen Mistry is about to enter Mistry House, where she works as a solicitor in her father’s law firm....
by NRB | 19 Dec 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The author of the bestseller Call Me Evie returns with a chilling story inspired by the real-life cult The Family. In a small town in rural Victoria, amid oppressive heat and the threat of bushfire, Freya lives the life of a single mother, raising...
by NRB | 29 Aug 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Adrian McKinty has won multiple awards for his crime novels featuring Belfast detective Sean Duffy. With The Chain he moves into new territory, producing a flat-out thriller. This is one hell of a ride. If you’re looking for a book to keep you up and turning the...
by NRB | 13 Aug 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Who is Evie? JP Pomare’s taut debut thriller has already been shortlisted for crime writing awards. A man holds a young girl against her will. She bolts, reaching the front door of the house, but the man catches up and drags her back inside. He forcibly...
by NRB | 2 Jul 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Simon Beckett’s new thriller takes his Dr David Hunter series into sinister territory. Instantly immersive, this gripping new addition to the bestselling David Hunter series by Simon Beckett focuses on the discovery of a partially mummified body in the...
by NRB | 30 Apr 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
It’s 84 years since Dame Ngaio Marsh published the first Roderick Alleyn novel. Now he’s back, in a crime novel outlined by Marsh during the Second World War and completed by Stella Duffy in 2018. Dame Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre...
by NRB | 9 Apr 2019 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
This second book in Ian Ludlow action series by Lee Goldberg takes us deep into a global conspiracy, never skipping any opportunity for cheap kills, expensive thrills and slapstick laughs along the way. Following on from True Fiction, Ian Ludlow once again stars as...
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