Crime

The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen

Reviewed by Kate McIntosh

Pearl Harbor has been attacked and America looks set to join her allies in the war in Europe. On the streets of Boston, far from the killing fields, there are battles of a different sort taking place, all somehow linked…

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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

Everyone thinks Lucy was the one who killed her best friend, Savvy. It makes sense – Lucy was found stumbling through the streets, covered in Savvy’s blood, and claiming she couldn’t remember anything that happened. But the police never found…

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The Fury by Alex Michaelides

Reviewed by Mary-Louisa Horrigan

Amid the ferocious winds on a small and idyllic Greek island owned by the reclusive movie star Lana Farrar, a murder occurs. With only seven people on the island, the six possible suspects are left scrambling in the wake of…

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Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be transported back to the year 2050 to save the world…

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The Hunter by Tana French

Reviewed by Lian Hingee

In Tana French’s 2015 novel The Searcher, retired cop Cal Hooper moves from Chicago to a remote Irish village where he becomes entangled in the case of a missing teenage boy. In her long-awaited new book The Hunter

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Anna O by Matthew Blake

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

On the 30th of August, 2019, Anna Ogilvy committed a double homicide, brutally killing her two best friends. The catch is that she was sleepwalking when she committed the murder, and she has not woken up since. Four years later…

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What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Reviewed by Lian Hingee

Australia is blessed with some of the very best crime writers in the world right now, and Dervla McTiernan is without a doubt one of the finest. Her debut, The Rúin, was a global bestseller that won a host…

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The Strip by Iain Ryan

Reviewed by Joe Murray

The Gold Coast. 1980. A city coated in a thick layer of grime, sweat, and sleaze with a grisly series of unsolved murders looming over its police department. It’s a case that has thoroughly defeated the corrupt and aimless Diablo…

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West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

It’s the 4th of July. Barbecues are sizzling, the sky is aglow with fireworks, star-spangled banners wave proudly, painting the day red, white and blue. But amid the celebrations, a murder has occurred, and only you can solve it.

In…

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Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

Hot Springs Drive is an explosive cocktail of lust, loneliness, and indulgence, all suppressed in a domestic suburban lifestyle. The tragedy occurs when the truth is unearthed.

Jackie and Theresa have been best friends since they first met in the…

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