The Half Child is another intense and memorable mystery from Australian crime writer Angela Savage. Jayne Keeney heads to Pattaya and a case that will test her vulnerabilities in way she hasn’t intended.
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Behind the Night Bazaar by Angela Savage
Behind the Night Bazaar by Angela Savage is thoroughly enjoyable: enlightening, tense and evocative. Does Jayne understand Thai culture well enough to stay alive and solve her friend’s murder?
The Eye of the Sheep by Sophie Laguna
Sensitively and beautifully written, The Eye of the Sheep by Sophie Laguna is a heartfelt tale of loss and the pain of love.
Review: Frantic by Katherine Howell
Frantic is so pacey I often felt like I was in the ambulance with Sophie, sirens blazing and speeding down the wrong side of the road.
Review: The Temporary Detective by Joanne Sydney Lessner
With this first in the Isobel Spice series, Lessner creates a likeable if somewhat scatty heroine in a world where office politics is murder.
Something to Hide by Deborah Moggarch
Intelligent, vibrant and subtle, Something to Hide is another masterpiece from the author of These Foolish Things (better known as The Best, Exotic Marigold Hotel).
Review: Friday On My Mind by Nicci French
Book five in the Frieda Klein series is typically restrained and one hell of a good read.
D(r)iving into Suspense
Today I’m living the dream: red sports car, the Amalfi coast, and a chance to chat with talented screenwriter and author of the suspense-filled debut The Lost Swimmer, a novel as thrilling as this drive along the famous coastal road high above the Tyrrhenian Sea. I’m hoping our conversation will distract us from the sheer drop just metres beyond the passenger door. Cross your fingers a tourist bus doesn’t cut one of those blind bends ahead, and join me in welcoming Ann Turner.
Review: The Lost Swimmer by Anne Turner
A tense debut that will leave you pondering the nature of truth and what—and who—you take for granted.
Road Trip to Revelation
Today I’m reconnecting with one of my favourite women’s fiction authors. We’ve met her before—you might remember our chat about her debut novel House for All Seasons—but this time I’m waiting just outside Saddleton ready to be collected by my guest as she takes us on a quick trip around the landscape of her latest novel, Season of Shadow and Light. Here she comes now, tearing up the unsealed road in an old ute named ‘The Beast’. Please join me in welcoming Jenn J McLeod.