by NRB | 9 Mar 2023 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
This fierce, unflinching thriller asks timely questions about threatening behaviour. Why don’t we recognise it? Stop it? Dark Mode is a novel, as the note at the beginning makes clear: While the characters and their precise circumstances are fictitious, the...
by NRB | 16 Sep 2021 | Fiction |
Charlotte McConaghy follows up her international bestseller The Last Migration with a story of wolves and the Scottish Highlands. When I was eight, Dad cut me open from throat to stomach. Such a dramatic first line promises a dramatic story and Once There Were Wolves...
by NRB | 1 Jul 2021 | Fiction, SFF |
The author of Lexicon returns with a new novel of multiple murders and multiple worlds. ‘I hate that you make me do this’, he said, and even as she struggled, she could see that he did indeed look regretful, like a man forced to put down a pet dog, one he’d loved that...
by NRB | 11 Sep 2020 | Extracts, Fiction |
This week we’re delighted to bring you an extract from Rose Carlyle’s edge-of-the-seat thriller The Girl in the Mirror. Summer and Iris are identical twins, but Iris has always envied beautiful, easy-going Summer and her perfect husband, Adam. When the...
by NRB | 22 Oct 2019 | Fiction |
Petronella McGovern’s debut thriller contains a lesson for the digital age. Six Minutes. A lost child. That’s it in a nutshell. As the world witnessed in horror the unfolding of the infamous James Bulger case in the early 1990s, or Madeline McCann’s...
by NRB | 19 Sep 2019 | Fiction |
This new novel from the author of The Doll Funeral and The Girl in the Red Coat is a suspenseful tale of three teenage girls and dark magic. The idea of having a knife close by without him even knowing plunges through me in a shock … He will not see it. He will...
by NRB | 7 May 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
A classic of foreboding and suspense set in the Victorian High Country. There are a few authors out there who write books that just about guarantee that sleep will be lost, and lights will be left on for quite some time after finishing them, and as with Brown’s...
by NRB | 30 May 2012 | Fiction |
There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read Wendy James’s fourth novel and not think of the real-life case of Keli Lane, jailed for the murder of her baby Tegan, whose body has never been found. In...