Category: Blog

Silent Scream

Posted by Rowena Holloway on June 16, 2016July 3, 2016

To catch the killer, can D. I. Kim Stone confront the demons of her own past before it’s too late?

That Darkness

Posted by Rowena Holloway on June 14, 2016July 3, 2016

Take one vigilanti cop, add a criminalist who won’t let go and you get a crime novel with an interesting moral dilemma at its heart.

The Other Side of the Season

Posted by Rowena Holloway on May 22, 2016July 5, 2016

In The Other Side of the Season by Jenn J McLeod family secrets are exposed, but will discovery bring about devastation or a happy ending?

How to Stop Ageing

Posted by Rowena Holloway on May 9, 2016July 3, 2016

Jenn J McLeod has become something of a regular on my interview list and chatting with Jenn is always filled with wisdom and humour–just like her books. I’ve read them all and was thrilled to get my hands on an advance copy of her latest gem The Other Side of the Season.

The novel slips between the present day, in which we follow Sidney and her search for her lost grandparents (plenty of mystery there, too), and the late 1970s when … Well, I’ll let Jenn tell you all about that.

Running Against the Tide

Posted by Rowena Holloway on April 25, 2016July 5, 2016

A woman in danger, trouble with her children, an ex-husband who isn’t who he pretends to be–there is much to like about this second novel from Australian author Amanda Ortlepp.

Brighton Belle

Posted by Rowena Holloway on April 12, 2016July 5, 2016

In 1950s Brighton can former secret operative Mirabelle Bevan unravel the mystery behind a missing woman and her newborn baby and save an old friend from certain death?