Friday Update: The Reading Queue (16th October)
The #WishList continues unabated. (And the 16 year old Laverne was having none of this "15 year old Shirley's getting all the attention just...Read more
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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (17th April)
The days are definitely shortening now which means the Spring Classics bike racing is in full swing, which means no sleep and a freaked...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (19th June)
I missed posting the last couple of Friday updates due to other unplanned commitments, and given...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (20th March)
Still managing to not read enough books. The silver lining of the current fuel price / shortage problems is for us that may mean less...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (22nd May)
This update hasn't been happening recently - I've been dealing with a tsunami of elderly animal health challenges which have just chewed...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (24th April)
Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. What a "dreadful" problem to have.
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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (29th May)
There's not going to be a lot of posting here over the next few days. ...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (30th October)
The Titanic of reading lists is still afloat, listing only slightly. But momentum has been achieved and you can 100% put that down to the...Read more
Frozen Summer, Ian Austin
The third novel in the Dan Calder series, the title FROZEN SUMMER is the nickname Calder's girlfriend has given to a cold case that he's slightly obsessed with - and not just because he's the only suspect....
Following on from THE AGENCY and THE SECOND GRAVE, this series is one...Read more
The Gambler
A highly charged crime-thriller - the first in an electrifying new series - by multi-award-winning prince of the twist, J.P. Pomare.
PI Vince Reid is visiting an old friend when he's offered a case he can't refuse: Why did a respected local woman open fire at a...Read more
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The Gambler, J.P. Pomare
Any new novel from J.P. Pomare needs to be approached with caution. You're going to have to make sure that you've cleared your calendar, stacked up the pre-made meals, and maybe set some alarms to remind you of the animal medication schedules and feeding rounds, because I can just about...Read more
Getting Warmer, Alan Carter
Carter's first novel featuring Cato (obvious connection for the nickname) Kwong, PRIME CUT, had him exiled to the Stock Squad in the back blocks of regional WA, doing penance. GETTING WARMER has him back in Perth, just as things weather-wise and crime-wise start to heat up. Starting out...Read more
The Girl in the Mirror, Rose Carlyle
Mirror twins are identical twins, with some opposing physical features, so when they are facing each other they can appear as mirrored reflections. Birthmarks can be on opposite sides, cowlicks may run clockwise on one twin and counterclockwise on the other, and so on. In some extreme cases...Read more
Girl of the Mountains, Trish McCormack
When they said write what you know, Trish McCormack got the memo. Growing up at the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand, and having worked in various national parks in NZ, her settings are always gloriously depicted. In this case Mt Cook is the central location, with two timelines wind...Read more
The Glasgow Smile, Chris Stuart
The follow on from FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN, GLASGOW SMILE is set (the title relates to something specific in the surroundings), in Melbourne, where the discovery of a woman's body stabbed and strangled late at night in the graffitied and dark tangled laneways of the innercity sets off a...Read more
Glass Barbie, Michael Botur
If you're looking for something that's wild, ranty, full to brim with nobody (including the good, bad, and slightly deluded) winning at anything, then GLASS BARBIE could be just the ticket.
It's a roller coaster ride alongside wild man, crackhead, Karl Copley. He of the big...Read more
Good Cop Bad Cop, Gus Mitchell
A take on a noir romp with stylised good cop / bad cop characters, humour is a huge part of GOOD COP BAD COP. Therein lies probably the biggest problem - find it funny and it's going to work really well. Find it somewhat forced and the misogyny and objectification comes across as a bit...Read more
A Good Winter, Gigi Fenster
The second fiction book from New Zealand writer, Gigi Fenster, A GOOD WINTER is a story of a group of women, after Lara moves to the city to be near her widowed, pregnant daughter. Sophie really starts to struggle after Michael is born, her grief compounded by post-natal depression. The...Read more
Graveyard of the Atlantic, Helen Goltz
GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC is the second in the Mitchell Parker thriller series, so reading them backwards (as I am) is clearing up some unknowns, and creating a few more. Needless to say MASTERMIND, the first in the series is going to have to be read at some stage as now, if nothing else,...Read more
The Great Divide, L.J.M. Owen
In THE GREAT DIVIDE, L.J.M. Owen has set what seems to be the first of an intended new series in the atmospheric location of a small Tasmanian town with plenty of past secrets just waiting to come back to haunt new and old residents alike.
Atmosphere is the word when it comes to...Read more
A Greater God, Brian Stoddart
Book 4 and we're now probably at the point that A GREATER GOD will require some effort to catch up if you're new to the Chris Le Fanu series. Set in early 20th century India, around the tensions leading to Indian Independence from Britain, Chris Le Fanu is a member of the English police...Read more
The Gulf Between, Maxine Alterio
THE GULF BETWEEN is a slow burner, suspense thriller of the deceptively laid back variety. From the opening chapter there's something hypnotically understated about the way that the story of Julia is woven. A combination family saga and personal journey, it's the discovery of a seriously...Read more
Heaven Sent, Alan Carter
Sometimes you start reading a series book about a favourite character, and really start to wonder if the author is annoyed with them, subconsciously punishing them for being too popular, or just enjoying applying the thumb screws for a change. Whatever is going on, Alan Carter isn't making...Read more
Hell of a Thing, Michael Botur
The thing with Michael Botur's short story collection HELL OF A THING is that there is going to be something in here for all readers who like a bit of dark, unrelenting, beat you round the head and shoulders styled fiction.
There's sixteen stories in this collection, described...Read more
Hell's Bells, Jill Johnson
The second novel in the Professor Eustacia Rose series, HELL'S BELLS is out, about and well worth reading. For those that haven't met up with this character before, her first outing was in the book DEVIL'S BREATH. The same elements are being...Read more