All posts tagged "Crime"
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Murder Mile, by Lynda La Plante
Four brutal murders, a city living in fear, a killer on the streets...Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison returns in the 4th book in the bestselling Tennison series, from the doyenne of crime fiction.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Boy at the Keyhole, by Stephen Giles
Nine-year-old Samuel begins to suspect foul play when he wakes one morning to be told by his housekeeper that his Mother had to go away on an overseas trip without any prior warning or saying goodbye.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Thief of Light, by Bernard Schaffer
An ambitious young cop suspects there's more to random, horrific murders in her small town and stumbles upon the first known a serial killer whose M.O. is constantly changing . . .
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1.4KFilm & TVFilm Review: Kin
A fast-action, sci-fi, crime thriller.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureThe Turnkey, by Allison Rushby, wins Best Children’s Crime Novel
The Turnkey, by Allison Rushby, has won Best Children’s Crime Novel at the Sisters in Crime 18th Davitt Awards.
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733Books & LiteratureBook Review: What You Want to See, by Kristen Lepoinka
A PI is hired to follow a potentially cheating fiancée, who may or may not have cleaned out her future husband’s bank accounts. Just after the cheque bounces and the tailing stops, the errant fiancée is murdered.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer
A look into the Anna-Jane Cheney murder case. Cheney was an Adelaide lawyer murdered in the 1990s. Her fiancé, Henry Keogh, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released and have the charges dropped 21 years later.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Scrublands, by Chris Hammer
A top-flight former foreign correspondent is sent to a drought-ridden, dying rural town to write an anniversary piece investigating how the town is coping one year after a young priest shot five men dead from the steps of his church.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Liar, Liar, by James Patterson & Candice Fox
Detective Harriet Blue is on the opposite side of the law, hunting a serial killer but this time she intends no mercy. Harry, a good cop gone really bad and is determined to be the one who pulls the trigger.
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970Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Devil’s Half Mile, by Paddy Hirsch
In the 1700s, Justy Flanagan returns to Manhattan, New York with new evidence in hand to seek the truth of his father’s death, believing his supposed suicide was actually murder.
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744Books & LiteratureBook Review: Closer Than You Know, by Brad Parks
Melanie, a former foster child, has clawed her way through life and a university degree into a normal, if busy, existence but when she heads off to pick up her baby from day care one day, she finds Social Services have removed the child into foster care.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: No Turning Back, by Sam Blake
Tragedy strikes a town when two university students meet an untimely end on the same fateful night, one from a hit-and-run and the other from an apparent suicide.
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924Books & LiteratureBook Review: Into the Night, by Sarah Bailey
This follow-up to bestselling novel The Dark Lake is an urban police drama set in the grittiness of Melbourne’s inner city, where Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock has made some tough personal choices that see her story relocated from the rural setting of Smithson.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Burden of Lies, by Richard Beasley
Lawyer Peter Tanner is asked to defend a self-made construction mogul who is accused of killing her partner but, as he wades through construction and corruption, the situation gets as murky as the water at Botany Bay.
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2.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Chalk Man, by CJ Tudor
As the 30th anniversary of a murder approaches, an old child gang reunite, triggered by a letter each has received with a piece of chalk, and a drawing of a stick figure.
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1.3KLatestBook Review: The Popeye Murder/A Royal Murder by Sandra Winter-Dewhirst
The first two books of the Rebecca Keith Series – a sassy, buxom, Adelaide journalist with a passion for food, an eye for law enforcement agency representatives, and an involvement with murder.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Redemption Point, by Candice Fox
In this sequel to 'Crimson Lake', Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell return to face the irate father of the girl Conkaffey was accused of killing, while Pharrell must also investigate the murder of two young adults in a Cairns pub.
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734Books & LiteratureBook Review: Three Days in September, by Luna Miller
When artist Gabriel arrives in the remote town of Ludvika to focus on his art, he becomes entangled in the lives of the locals, with all their personal politics, love affairs, friendships and hardships.
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756Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Stakes, by Ben Sanders
NYPD robbery detective Miles Keller thinks he's found a good strategy: rip off rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word's out about his true identity, but someone wants revenge.
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4.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
The incomparable Stephen Fry narrates all 4 novels and 56 short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, bringing the characters, action and the era to life.
