Sorted on book title (not in series order)
In a small rural community north-west of Sydney, park ranger, Cal Nyx, finds a badly decomposed body in the bush. When the remains are identified as someone she once knew, the police treat her as a suspect. Cal, a tough and canny woman, needs to find the killer and convince the...Read more
Another book from the Ngaio Marsh list of 2021 that feels like the start of a series. This one is set north-west of Sydney, Australia, featuring park ranger Cal Nyx, who finds a badly decomposed body in the bush. Identification shows the body to be that of somebody she once knew, and Cal...Read more
Be careful who you cross.
Evin leads a quiet, orderly life as a classic motorcycle restorer in a small seaside town. Until she witnesses a gang-affiliate’s nasty little secret. A body washes up on the coast several days later, dragging her further into a...Read more
Set in a small seaside town with its fair share of outsiders, Evin Hart leads a quiet, orderly life restoring classic motorcycles, living partially in her van with her beloved dog. Next door are Genna and her young son and unfortunately, not too far away Hickson lives with his wife and kids...Read more
In the endless tracts of the New South Wales bushland Ranger Cal Nyx finds a dead body under unusual circumstances. It soon becomes apparent this is a historic death. Growing attention on the crime puts the blowtorch to a murderer who’s managed to evade justice. For now.
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The third Cal Nyx novel, THE FREEZER, would possibly work as a standalone, but the connections between this and the second novel, THE QUARRY in particular, make the characters here make a lot more sense. Nyx and her partner, DI Liz Scobie, her...Read more
I missed posting the last couple of Friday updates due to other unplanned commitments, and given...Read more
Managed to get some reading done - it was a cold weekend for a change so a curl up in the chair was much appreciated.
Finished off:
The Corrector, Kim Hunt (2026 Ngaio's)
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Fourth Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
As always - the last fortnight entries and The Next Up Reading List in full.
Second Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
Third Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
Sixth Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL', with this month the subtitle of, The Wheels are Being Realigned.
Seeing something you shouldn't have makes life on the margins a whole lot scarier.
Ranger Cal Nyx works alone in the vast NSW bushland reserves but is pulled away from the quiet and solitude by a coded message that only one other person could understand.
Dif, the...Read more
THE QUARRY is now the second novel in a series featuring NSW ranger Cal Nyx. If you're new to these, it's a series that's going to be well worth following. There's no immediate requirement to read the earlier book first (THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD), although it will give you a slightly fuller...Read more