All posts tagged "Mystery"
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896Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Nine Perfect Strangers, by Liane Moriarty
Nine strangers attend a 10-day health retreat but get more than the bargained for under the over-zealous resort Director.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 9: All the Tears in China, by Sulari Gentill
The ninth Rowland Sinclair Mystery sees Rowly kidnapped in China, circa 1935.
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1.0KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Jane Austen: Private Eye
Jessica Messenger, one of the talented actors who make up the Perth based duo Sense and Spontaneity, gives the audience a very clever and witty performance as Jane Austen: Private Eye and introduces us to a side of Jane Austen we’ve never seen before.
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2.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Pearl Thief, by Fiona McIntosh
When Byzantine pearls are loaned to the British Museum in 1963, it sets off a frenzied hunt for a Nazi.
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1.3KAdelaide 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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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Inspector Cluedo and the Curse of the Darjeeling Diamond
On the anniversary of her husband's death, Lady Agatha's diamond necklace goes missing and it's up to bumbling Inspector Cluedo to solve the case.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Consequence of Loyalty, by Trey Stone
Three FBI agents race against the clock to solve a murder mystery behind a shooting before someone else gets hurt.
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1.1KBooks & 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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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Spotted Dog, by Kerry Greenwood
When Geordie, a trained sniffer dog and an Afghanistan veteran like his owner, is kidnapped, Corinna Chapman takes on the case.
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1.3KBooks & 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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972Books & 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: The Thin Blue Sliver, Troy Adami
Ten months after a former detective's life is destroyed by a series of devastating losses, a stranger pulls him back down a path of crime he never thought he would go down again.
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896Books & 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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1.2KBooks & 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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1.1KBooks & 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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1.2KBooks & 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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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Treasure Hunt House, by B Stadtlander & K Davies
A wonderful picture book that takes children on a treasure hunt around Great-aunt Martha's house, where they can wrestle with riddles on every page by lifting the flaps to reveal the house’s hidden, historical treasures.
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747Books & LiteratureBook Review: Fatal Inheritance, by Rachel Rhys
Eve Forrester escapes a loveless marriage in 1948 and journeys to the French Riviera after a mysterious bequest is left in her name but, while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge. Rivals who want her out of the way.
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952Books & 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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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.
