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Crime Scene: GARRY DISHER Bitter Wash Road; BARRY MAITLAND The Raven’s Eye: A Brock and Kolla Mystery. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

November 5, 2013

Garry Disher introduces a new character and Barry Maitland continues his successful Brock and Kolla series. Bitter Wash Road is …

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CHRIS WOMERSLEY Cairo. Reviewed by Robyne Young

October 10, 2013

Award-winning novelist Chris Womersley delivers a provocative portrait of the artist as a young art thief. There is a sense …

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ROBERT HARRIS An Officer and a Spy. Reviewed by Peter Corris

October 8, 2013

The Dreyfus Case, notorious for its betrayals and anti-Semitism, inspires this new thriller from the author of Fatherland. In the …

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Crime Scene: DAVID WHISH-WILSON Zero at the Bone; STUART LITTLEMORE Harry Curry, Rats and Mice. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

September 17, 2013

Frank Swann PI moves through the wild and sometimes dangerous world of 1970s mining-boom-town Perth, and in the law courts …

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Crime Scene: ANDREW TAYLOR The Scent of Death. Reviewed by Peter Corris

August 20, 2013

The winner of the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, this impressive historical crime novel gives a hard-edged depiction of …

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Crime Scene: ANGELA SAVAGE The Dying Beach: Jayne Keeney PI in Krabi; PETER COTTON Dead Cat Bounce. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

August 8, 2013

Two recent Australian crime novels – a PI mystery set in Thailand and a police procedural in Canberra – give a strong …

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Crime Scene: JENNY SPENCE No Safe Place. Reviewed by Morgan Smith

August 1, 2013

This novel introduces a new, very 21st-century Australian crime series full of tension. For women crime readers ‘of a certain …

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Crime Scene: ROBERT GALBRAITH The Cuckoo’s Calling. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

July 14, 2013

This is an accomplished and complex crime novel from the alter-ego of J K Rowling. The draft of this review was …

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Crime Scene: ANNIE HAUXWELL A Bitter Taste; ALEX HAMMOND Blood Witness. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

July 4, 2013

The second in a series set in London and a debut legal thriller show some of the exciting variety of …

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JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ The Sound of Things Falling. Reviewed by Rosana Bouzas

June 18, 2013

This mystery is set in a Columbia emerging from the drug wars and haunted by memory and loss. The Sound …

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