Thursday Temptations
This Thursday temptations post is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.
This listing shows posts that went onto AustCrimeFiction.org in the last 14 days. Sorted into post type groups - Blogs (Updates), Books, Reviews.
Just Finished Reading
Finished off:
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood (audio)
The Man Comes Around by Caimh McDonnell (audio)
Started on:
The fourth thrilling novel in the bestselling Kalgoorlie series from beloved Australian crime writer Fleur McDonald.
A fiery car crash into a shop is only the beginning ...
When a car slams into a Kalgoorlie corner store, Detective Angie Sullivan is convinced it's a chance mishap. But as she starts an investigation, she is drawn into something far darker than it first appears. Angie and her team must grapple with secrets, betrayals and murder to unravel a mystery that stretches back across decades.
When an assassination attempt in a prison cell winds up with the wrong man dead, Lee Southern is hired to protect the real target. The millennium is just weeks away and rumours of a complete technological meltdown have guards and prisoners on edge. As violence simmers, tensions ignite, and Lee' s hopes of a quick mission disintegrate. Going undercover in a prison full of killers is his most dangerous assignment yet.
From the #1 bestselling author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates comes a swoony killer romance in which a sinister couples retreat results in cult chaos – for fans of Grady Hendrix and Brynne Weaver.
Filmmaker Laurie Hamilton knows a red flag when she sees one, and Kindred Souls sets off every alarm. The organisation claims to counsel couples for a steep price, but what's their real deal? Is it a scam … or a cult?
Private investigator Nomi Pace and her research assistant, Simon Noone, have an unusual partnership: She hunts murderers. He was one.
It’s 1987, Christmas in Manhattan, five years since a head injury wiped Simon’s memories of his life as a serial killer. He’s retreated into a quiet, careful existence, but it’s hard to atone for a past he can’t recall.
We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of infinite visible and invisible moments. We make marks to record, to remember, to honour, to protest. We mark time, for no matter how many times the sun sets, always it rises in a new dawn.
the end of the world was marked with beautiful light
we should have known
Simmering with protest and boundless love, Jazz Money’s David Unaipon Award-winning collection, how to make a basket, examines the tensions of living in the Australian colony today. By turns scathing, funny and lyrical, Money uses her poetry as an extension of protest against the violence of the colonial state, and as a celebration of Blak and queer love. Deeply personal and fiercely political, these poems attempt to remember, reimagine and re-voice history.
When the police won’t believe you, what can you do but take matters into your own hands.
The small town of Roberta on the Lake, Michigan is shaken to its core when a group of former high school baseball players are murdered one by one. One of the team members, Oscar, who has since moved back to his birth country of Australia, returns to his blended family with his sister Clementine to mourn the loss of his best friend, Jack—the first murder victim, beaten to death in his private study with his own baseball bat, Definitely a crime of passion—and definitely someone Jack considered a friend, as only friends were invited inside his study.
Saigon, 1968, on the eve of Tet. The Vietnamese New Year draws near, and the city waits, restless and uneasy, the air thick with rumours of ceasefire and the taste of betrayal.
Smith has served his time in the secret world – an Australian case officer grown weary of the lies that pass for intelligence, and the loyalties that dissolve at first suspicion. When a colleague is murdered and leaves behind a single word in a blood-stained notebook, Smith finds himself drawn back into the game he thought he’d abandoned.
Child protection worker Dana Gibson is called to attend a fatal shooting at the pub in Helidon where a bikie gang war has exploded. Seventeen-year-old Savannah and her younger sister, Maddie, have been caught in the crossfire, and the rural town finds itself divided between two cultures – the commune on the edge of town where Savannah's family live and an outlaw motorcycle gang.
She Lied First, Dinuka McKenzie
The first standalone psychological thriller from the author of the Detective Kate Miller series is compelling reading.
This statement might initially surprise some readers because there is much in the plot of She Lied First that could seem all a bit too murky, bordering on overblown. There is much to intrigue and bamboozle in this story told from a variety of viewpoints over a shifting timeline, littered with characters for whom keeping secrets is second nature.
A Beautiful Family, Jennifer Trevelyan
There's something almost mesmeric about A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY. A seemingly gentle story about a summer vacation in the mid 1980s, sunbaked, old fashioned, quiet, New Zealand based, told through the eyes of 10 year old Alix. It's a time of Walkman's, Dolly Magazine, cassette tapes, crosswords and jigsaw puzzles. Although there's an air of simplicity and innocence about all of this (and nostalgia for those of us who were there at the time), there's also something bubbling along under the surface.