Reads a bit of crime fiction. Been reviewing with a focus on Australian and New Zealand works on www.austcrimefiction.org since 2006.
Also @kcfromaustcrime@mastodon.online
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10% complete! Karen from AustCrime has read 12 of 110 books.
As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until …
My Review of Home Before Night by J.P. Pomare has just been posted at:
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/home-night-jp-pomare
Above all else, Pomare knows how to write tension, misdirection, pace and threat.
As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8 pm to get to …
Dalton Trent: Boy Swallows Universe (Paperback, Fourth Estate)
Raw, whimsical, existential, heartbreaking, modern mythology
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in …
An outstanding debut novel back in 2022 (good grief has it really taken this long to post this ...), it's very very hard to look past an Australian rural noir novel called DIRT TOWN by Hayley Scrivenor.
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is …
Helen FitzGerald is one of those authors who really knows how to write engaging and very offputting central characters that you care about, despite their obvious failings, flaws, and downright stupidity from time to time.
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/halfway-house-helen-fitzgerald
The thing with any novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist is to remember the stages of reading.
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/i-am-behind-you-john-ajvide-lindqvist-0
An interesting combination of a psychological thriller, with a couple of flawed, but engaging and very sympathethic central female characters, TO THE RIVER ticks many required boxes but does so in a unique form.
A TV reality hit. Players dying to win. Can Inspector Joe Horseman penetrate a fantasy …
Book number five in the Fiji Island Mystery series featuring local rugby hero, now policeman Inspector Joe Horseman and his team, this time investigating the death of a fit young reality TV star who dies most unexpectedly on a small island off the coast of Fiji, in the middle of filming a wildly popular show which features, for the first time, a Fijian contestant.
Full Review at: www.austcrimefiction.org/review/death-camera-bm-allsopp
A TV reality hit. Players dying to win. Can Inspector Joe Horseman penetrate a fantasy world to stop a killer? …
