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Fifty Grand: Adrian McKinty
Despite warnings from her brother, and perhaps against her own better judgment, Cuban cop Mercado has herself smuggled to the US to uncover the truth behind the hit-and-run death of her defector father. Working undercover as a maid in a…
The Hua Shaun Hospital Murders: David Rotenberg
Exiled then redeemed, Detective Zhong Fong has been given a second chance. Reinstalled as head of special investigations and with a beautiful baby daughter and loving wife, he counts his blessings every day. Yet a series of events, beginning with…
The Tower: Michael Duffy
Another spectacular start to a promised new series comes from journalist, biographer and former publisher Michael Duffy, who opens his first foray into fiction with a swan dive from an unfinished Sydney skyscraper onto the roof of a police car…
Lennox: Craig Russell
From its absolute cracker of an opening scene to the sharp, unpredictable ending, noir saga Lennox has been the most delightful surprise of my reading month. Set in a cold, violent, postwar Glasgow teeming with cold violent, postwar people, this…
Rain Gods: James Lee Burke
It’s been a long time between drinks for Sheriff Hackberry Holland, who last appeared in 1971’s Lay Down My Sword and Shield. Now close to retirement and working in a small town on the Mexican border, the discovery of…
The Whisperer: Fiona McIntosh
This book is about a boy named Griff who belongs to a circus. After escaping from Master Tyren, he needs to find out the mysterious connection between him and a boy called Lute.
I really liked this book because it’s…
The Rehearsal: Eleanor Catton
The Rehearsal is a provocative, strange and remarkable book by Eleanor Catton – a 24-year-old who has won numerous prizes, a Fellowship to the Iowa Writers Workshop and has written a mature, confident first novel that I really enjoyed.
The…
Reheated Cabbage: Irvine Welsh
Welsh is back. And while this collection of shorts may only be an appetiser for the real shot up the arm – the long awaited prequel to Trainspotting, due for release within the year – this isn’t microwaved stuff…
The Little Giant Of Aberdeen County: Tiffany Baker
Growing up is hard to do – and much harder when you are exceptionally larger than anybody else in town. Destiny has even more cruelties in store for Truly Plaice: a life of poverty, family strife and a malignant, codependant…
Don't Tell Eve: Airlie Lawson
It had to happen eventually, didn’t it? A chicklit novel set in the world of publishing. Longtime publishing insider Airlie Lawson has written the book world’s answer to The Devil Wears Prada – only, in this case, the devil is…
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