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Just Finished Reading

UPDATE ADDED: Mon, 17/08/2026 - 11:41am by Karen Chisholm

Not a bad weekend reading wise.

Finished off:

She Lied First by Dinuka McKenzie (Netgalley)

Started on:

The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood (listening)

Cold River by Margaret Hickey

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 15/01/2026 - 4:01pm by Karen Chisholm

Someone is killing celebrities in Marlow! When footballer Gary Wise and thriller writer Tony Sexton are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks (AKA The Marlow Murder Club) must untangle a web of blackmail and scandal to find the killer. But with their friend and police contact, DI Malik, suspended from duty, and Judith’s own past catching up with her, The Marlow Murder Club find themselves on their own for the first time ever.

With suspects piling up like tabloid headlines, and someone threatening to expose Judith’s secrets, the pressure is on for The Marlow Murder Club in more ways than one … Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or will this be the end of The Marlow Murder Club?

PUBLISHER INFORMATION
Author: 
Robert Thorogood
Publication Date: 
Thu, 15/01/2026
ISBN: 
9780008567408
Narrator: 
Nicolette McKenzie
Publisher: 
HQ Books
Book Type: 
Audio (Online)
Genre: 
Crime Fiction
Sub-Genres: 
Cosy
Humour
Series Name: 
The Marlow Murder Club
No in Series: 
5
AUSTCRIME INFORMATION
Book Setting: 
England
Marlow
Status: 
Read
Waiting for Review
Book Source: 
Audible
Stored : 
Audible
Region: 
England

She Lied First

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 10/07/2026 - 10:46am by Karen Chisholm

Sisters make the best flatmates ... except when they are both keeping terrible secrets.

The stunning new standalone psychological thriller from the author of the popular Detective Kate Miles series.

The dream apartment. The start of a grand adventure. And two lives that are about to unravel.

Devika is living her best life, moving out of home in her final year of university. Close to the beach and away from her mother. Independent and self-sufficient, just like Kalyani. There's just one awful secret that Kal can never find out about.

Kalyani has it made. A new job. A unit she can afford, and her little sister as her roomie. She's finally achieved the life she's always wanted. Except for the one big thing she's yet to confide in Devi. A truth that gets harder to reveal the longer she waits.

When their lives are torn apart by betrayal, and Kal refuses to forgive her sister, Devi must peel back everything she thought she knew to rediscover Kalyani, lie by lie and secret by secret.

Newtown Review of Books
PUBLISHER INFORMATION
Author: 
Dinuka McKenzie
Publication Date: 
Tue, 28/07/2026
ISBN: 
9781460769423
Publisher: 
HarperCollins
No of Pages: 
336
Book Type: 
Paperback
Genre: 
Crime Fiction
AUSTCRIME INFORMATION
Status: 
Read
Waiting for Review
Region: 
Australia

Cold River

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 28/07/2026 - 11:36am by Karen Chisholm

Deep in the mountains, secrets grow deadly . . .

Detective Constable Sally White knows how easily hikers can go missing in Victoria’s high country. But there’s something about the disappearance of Louis Taylor, a young man lost up Mount Viking, that’s not sitting right with her.

Louis was an aspiring journalist, researching the illegal tobacco trade – also known as chop chop – that was once so prevalent in the area. And the last person he interviewed before his hike has just met a gruesome end . . .

But with no other leads, and with the search winding down, Sally is forced to accept the young man died in a tragic accident.

Until she learns of another missing person case that bears striking similarities. Astrid Marlowe, a young lawyer, vanished in the same mountains two years before.

Were Louis and Astrid simply unlucky hikers lost in the treacherous terrain? Or did they both stumble into something – or someone – they shouldn’t?

PUBLISHER INFORMATION
Author: 
Margaret Hickey
Publication Date: 
Tue, 28/07/2026
ISBN: 
9781761351136
Publisher: 
Penguin Books
Book Type: 
eBook
Genre: 
Crime Fiction
AUSTCRIME INFORMATION
Book Setting: 
Australia
Victoria
High Country
Regional
Status: 
To Be Read
Next Up
Book Source: 
Purchased
Stored : 
Kobo
Date Received: 
Tuesday, 28 July, 2026
Region: 
Australia
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