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MARK SMITH Three Boys Gone. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

MARK SMITH Three Boys Gone. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 14 Jan 2025 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Mark Smith’s first novel for adults is both a psychological thriller and an exploration of a shocking moral dilemma. Mark Smith, a Victoria-based educator, is best known as the author of the critically acclaimed YA Winter Trilogy and If Not For Us, a very enjoyable YA...
JP POMARE Tell Me Lies. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

JP POMARE Tell Me Lies. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 19 Jan 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

The latest thriller from award-winner JP Pomare continues his fascination with psychological manipulation. Early one morning at Melbourne’s Southbank station, psychologist Margot Scott approaches a man from behind, hesitating as she waits for the approaching train....
ANNA DOWNES The Safe Place. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

ANNA DOWNES The Safe Place. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 2 Jul 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Anna Downes’s first novel is a thriller that poses uncomfortable questions about families. The Safe Place begins with a dreamlike escape. A young Londoner in a Ramones T-shirt and worn sneakers boards a private jet and arrives in France, where a chauffeur...

Crime Scene: TANA FRENCH Broken Harbour. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 29 Nov 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 1 comment

Tana French’s Irish Gothic noir delivers more than the average crime novel. This is the fourth in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. Each novel stands alone, but takes a character from the previous one and is told from his or her point of view. The...

Crime Scene: S J BOLTON Dead Scared. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 19 Sep 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

A sinister series of student deaths ignites this gripping thriller. In Cambridge, unprecedented numbers of students seem to be killing themselves, or attempting to; more of them than could be expected from peer-emulation cluster suicides. There is clearly something...
             

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