All posts tagged "murder"
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Ruin Beach, by Kate Rhodes
The suspicious death of a local woman inverts the paradise of the Isles of Scilly, and Detective Investigator Ben Kitto is the only one who can get to the bottom of the ocean’s secrets.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Dark Sacred Night, by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch to work on a cold case.
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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: A Murder Most Foul: Murder Mystery in the Sky
Aboard the Airship Adelaide, murder is afoot and the race is on to see who can solve the crime.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Winters, by Lisa Gabriele
A young woman is pulled from the life she has always known when a rich, older, sophisticated, politician steals her heart.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Angel’s Mark, by S W Perry
In 1590, a time when Queen Elizabeth I’s rule is on shaky ground and Catholicism is an underground practice, Nicholas Shelby, physician, becomes involved in the case of a young boy who has been murdered, mutilated and thrown into the river.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edmund Crispin
A string of brutal killings and decapitations has the local police puzzled, leading armchair detective Gervase Fen to seek answers from a cast of eccentric villagers.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Necessary Murder, by MJ Tjia
Private investigator and deliciously alluring courtesan Heloise Chancey poses as a nursemaid to investigate the murder of two members of the Lovejoy family in Victorian London.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Shilling & Sixpence Investigates, by Big Finish
Based on Nigel Fairs’s murder mystery serial that has been running for over 21 years throughout the UK, Shilling & Sixpence Investigate takes place in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Incest, Murder and a Miracle, by Cheryl & Robert Cuccio, with Morgan St James
This is the shocking but true story about what really happened before, during and after the high-profile murder case of Cheryl Pierson in 1986 and what drove her to arrange a murder of her father.
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3.4KFilm & TVFilm Review: Missing Pieces: The Curious Case of the Somerton Man
A beautifully put-together documentary about an enduring mystery.
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2.1KBooks & 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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1.7KBooks & 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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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Don’t Believe It, by Charlie Donlea
An investigative reporter creates a 'live' documentary, revealing what she finds as she finds it when she attempts to uncover the truth of a 10-year old murder.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The French Girl, by Lexie Elliott
Ten years ago, six Oxford University friends spend a summer vacation together but it ended in tragedy when the girl next door disappeared. Now her body has been found.
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1.6KLatestBook 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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909Books & LiteratureBook Review: Lullaby, by Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
A new nanny insinuates herself into every element of a family’s life, providing loving care whilst playing psychologically damaging and abusive games with the children and then with the mother.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Origin, by Dan Brown
The 5th book in the Robert Langdon series has him chasing a series of hidden clues for a scientific discovery that may question the very existence of mankind.
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936Books & LiteratureBook Review: All the Wicked Girls, by Chris Whitaker
When Summer Ryan disappears from a small town in Alabama, it brings to light other disappearances of ‘good, church-going girls’ in the area.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureRecommended Reading – Our Spring Collection!
Need a good book or audiobook? Glam Adelaide's book review team have put together a list of some of their top recommendations to laze away the warmer weather.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Don’t Let Go, by Harlan Coben
The past comes back to haunt a small town cop when an execution-style murder may link back to the death of his brother an a secret high school society.
