The Readings blog

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry I like to review Australian crime books, partly because it’s always good…

Our crime specialist shares 9 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Nancy Business by R.W.R. McDonald Four months after 12-year-old Tippy Chan, her uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon started The Nancys…

If you yearn for dark, tense and moody stories in the colder months, we recommend some of the most outstanding recent literary thrillers. Our picks span disaster novels, psychological tales, near-future dystopias, gothic contemporary fiction, historical thrillers and more The…

This month, Julia Jackson is stepping in as our crime specialist to share 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz This stunning debut is…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Chase by Candice Fox At a prison in Nevada, the annual friendly baseball gamebetween the officers and the minimum-security inmates…

Our crime specialist shares 11 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Long, Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper In a picture-perfect house in 1959, model housewife Joyce Haney goes to the mall for…

Our crime specialist shares 9 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Spiral by Iain Ryan I could tell you that Iain Ryan’s The Spiral is an immersive, captivating crime book, but…

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH True West by David Whish-Wilson (available 5 November) If you want to get truly knocked about by a book, True West is what you want in front of you. Set in Western Australia in 1988,…

The days are short, the nights are long, dark and chilly. What better time to curl up indoors in the warm with the best psychological thrillers of the year so far? We’ve put together a list of some of our…

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Harper Lee – author of the slightly well known To Kill a Mockingbird – was by Truman Capote’s side when he…

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Eight Lives by Susan Hurley When a young Vietnamese-Australian doctor makes a medical breakthrough, inventing a drug that could essentially help broken immune systems fix themselves, everything seems as golden as the name bestowed upon…

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan Regular Readings Monthly readers will no doubt remember how obsessed we were by Irish born, Perth-based Dervla McTiernan’s debut crime novel. After turning the final page of The Rúin in…