by NRB | 19 Jan 2021 | Fiction |
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....
by NRB | 2 Jul 2020 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
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...
by Jean Bedford | 29 Nov 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
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 first,...
by Jean Bedford | 19 Sep 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
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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