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AustCrime - April Wrap Up

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Book Title: 
Rotten Gods
The Soft Touch
Dead Girl Sing
The Midnight Promise
Out of the Silence
The Marmalade Files
Mad Men
Three Crooked Kings
The Richmond Conspiracy
Bay of Fires
Dark Horse
The United States of Air
The Latin Cushion
Author Name: 
Greg Barron
Tony Cavanaugh
Zane Lovitt
Wendy James
Chris Uhlmann
Steve Lewis
Maggie Groff
Matthew Condon
Andrew Grimes
Poppy Gee
Honey Brown
J.M. Porup
Rosanne Dingli

April, apart from finishing off one book, was 100% Australian author month. Half way through the month it dawned on me that in 2006, when I got the first version of this site up and running, it was a bit tricky to fill an entire month's reading with local books - even with a bit of back catalogue re-reading.

THE LATIN CUSHION - Rosanne Dingli

Author Information
Book Title: 
The Latin Cushion
Author Name: 
Rosanne Dingli
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
B009LF1FV8
Series: 
Cloud Maslin
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Novella
Location: 
Western Australia
Publisher: 
Amazon
Publisher Website: 
The Latin Cushion - Amazon
Year of Publication: 
2012

Inspector Cloud Maslin investigates a murder in a prosperous leafy suburb, where the genteel sheen seems to have an underlayer of seedy distrust. The subtle stink of decadence and immorality is disturbing, when inhaled among beautiful antiques and family silver. What secrets are to be unearthed in Claremont?

Maslin takes on a new partner, Senior Sergeant Martina Williams. His fiancee leaves him for reasons he's known for some time. His peace of mind is rattled by a baffling case with a shattering conclusion.

Book Review: 

This is a novella that I picked up from Amazon based on some comments I'd seen about the author's writing style, which turned out to be right. This is a great little novella that introduces a murder, an investigator and his sidekick, fleshes out his background and gives me some personality, sets up some potential suspects and solves the murder. All in novella format. Well written with extremely believable dialogue and a very nice sense of pace. Short, but not foreshortened, with a nice little twist at the end that, despite the post-events reveal style used, made a lot of sense and worked well as a solution. My only quibble is stupidity on my part... Cloud... for a bloke. Couldn't get it out of my mind that he'd have been given such a hard time as a kid with a name like that, he should have been a lot more bitter and twisted than he was... I know. I know.

The Latin Cushion

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Inspector Cloud Maslin investigates a murder in a prosperous leafy suburb, where the genteel sheen seems to have an underlayer of seedy distrust. The subtle stink of decadence and immorality is disturbing, when inhaled among beautiful antiques and family silver. What secrets are to be unearthed in Claremont?

Maslin takes on a new partner, Senior Sergeant Martina Williams. His fiancee leaves him for reasons he's known for some time. His peace of mind is rattled by a baffling case with a shattering conclusion.

Sub Genre: 
Novellas
ISBN: 
B009LF1FV8
Location: 
Perth
Series: 
Cloud Mashlin
Publisher: 
Amazon
Year of Publication: 
2012

Rosanne Dingli

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Author Information
Dingli, Rosanne

About the Author

Rosanne Dingli was born in Malta in the 1950s, and has lived in Australia since 1982. Her work has been published in journals, magazines, papers and reviews since 1986.

Rosanne has worked as a travel consultant, lecturer, cook, heraldic artist, corporate and personal editor, tutor, business partner, manuscript assessor and slushpile reader.

Among her many awards for fiction are the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Springvale, and the FAW Lyndon Hadow Award.

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