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Not such a great weekend reading wise - it was cold sure, but our new cat, Phryne, has been putting in a lot of hard work dragging dust bunnies and old toys out from all sorts of nooks and crevices which even I couldn't keep ignoring forever...
The Ledge by Christian White (reading)
A Plot to Die for by Ardal O'Hanlan (listening)
Dirty! by Taliyah Stone (snuck this one in because .. well I forgot it was here which was very annoying because I'd been looking forward to it!)
This temptations is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.
Managed to get some reading done again over another cold, and thank goodness! wet weekend.
Finished off:
Against Their Will by Karina Kilmore
Started on:
A missing kingpin. A reluctant son. Enemies on all sides - and one explosive underworld war.
The 2025 Australian Fiction Prize winner is an unputdownable, take-no-prisoners thriller for all fans of Animal Kingdom, Gabriel Bergmoser and Jack Reacher.
In Brisbane's criminal underbelly, chaos is the only constant.
Meet Eugène Tarpon: ex-cop, ex-idealist, man in free fall.
Kicked off the force for killing a protestor, Tarpon is drinking too much and waiting around for something to happen. Then it does. In bursts the wild-eyed and bloodstained Memphis Charles, whose roommate has been brutally murdered. And she wants no one but Tarpon on the case.
As the bodies mount, Tarpon is dragged into a Parisian underworld of politics, sleaze, and paranoia – with nothing to guide him but instinct, stubbornness, and a battered sense of justice.
A man on the edge.
A woman hell-bent on revenge.
A cheating husband.
A desperate wife.
A property empire on the brink of collapse.
A family at loggerheads.
A predator hiding in plain sight.
Who will sink and who will swim?
When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune.
There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men and lift their heads, listen, then bound away: the scrub, the bushes shake and wave, signalling their invisible trajectories.
In a town scarred by floodwaters, the past refuses to stay buried.
When a catastrophic flood rips through the rural town of Birradurra, a shocking cold case is discovered. Unearthed from the mud are the skeletal remains of a baby.
Shaken by this and haunted by her traumatic past, journalist Bec Carter is consumed with getting justice for the victim.
But when her friend Harry who vowed to help with the investigation vanishes in violent circumstances, authorities look to Bec for answers.
The explosive sequel to the bestselling The Turing Protocol asks a chilling question: what happens when the power to rewrite the past becomes a weapon?
Nautilus is no ordinary machine. Created by Alan Turing during World War II, it can send messages eight weeks back in time—a discovery so dangerous that Turing established strict protocols for its use. Only members of his bloodline can operate it, and only to prevent global catastrophe.
For decades, the rules have held.
Until now.
The Bookshop Detectives are on the case!
Booksellers Garth and Eloise Sherlock (and their cowardly dog, Stevie) have been roped into hosting Murder and Mojitos, a glamorous Art Deco festival event starring Cuba’s queen of crime fiction.
They were diamonds: beautiful, sparkling and irresistible.
Nice girls do not accept employment from infamous Tilly Devine, the brothel owner with jewels on her fingers and a pistol in her handbag. All of Sydney knows her as the queen of crime, ruling an empire of bootleg whisky and gambling clubs, and rumour has it she's quick to pull the trigger on anyone who crosses her - including her husband.
Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency - and business is booming.
The Mortons are a modern-day, old-money dynasty with impeccable taste, from their exquisitely crafted cocktails to their expertly tailored vintage garments. They are also stone-cold killers.
Two women. One dead man. Only one of them knows the truth.
They say my husband killed himself. They say I should have seen it coming.
But I knew Hayden better than anyone. And I know he didn’t drive into that tree on purpose.
He was a devoted dad. Everyone’s best mate. Four generations of his family in this town.
Everyone in Maldon has an answer. In a goldfields town this small, none of them is the truth.
One dark winter night, a young woman – barefoot, in silk pyjamas and holding a hotel room key – collapses in the carpark of a Tasmanian hospital. The only witness is Liv, an exhausted emergency nurse who fails to save her.
Haunted by her mistake and determined to discover the woman’s identity, Liv's search takes her to remote wilds of Macquarie Heads. There an exclusive health resort rises from the coastline: the Aonaran, where the ultra-wealthy come to reset, renew, and remake themselves.
‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker
This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula).
Identical twin sisters with a secret they’re working hard to protect.
A sex-crimes detective returning to her home town and a past she’d hoped would remain buried.
And a case that doesn’t want to be solved.
Leah’s life is unravelling.
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.
The second novel in the cosy, chatty BOOKSHOP DETECTIVES series, TEA AND CAKE AND DEATH sees intrepid bookshop owners Garth and Eloise sniffing out a prolific poisoner ahead of a fundraising event - the Battle of the Book Clubs. Most of the actual sniffing is done by rescue dog Stevie, with Garth and Eloise sticking to the more traditional form of detecting, with a sideline in gossip and bookshop owning duties.
DIRTY! is the second novella in the Bloodline series, BANG! being the opening salvo. It's a series that might not have to be read in order, but would certainly benefit from doing so - the central characters are the same, the storylines follow on, and the themes are as dark as they could possibly be, with DIRTY! ramping that up just a bit more.
Abby Corson's debut novel THE CONCIERGE was an unusual, and really good, crime fiction outing, that quite possibly came with a bit of insider information, given the author's background in luxury travel and lifestyle writing. Which did kind of give this reader just a moment's pause for thought, because in HAPPY WOMAN the central character, Gwynne Hogg, is dealing with the not inconsiderable fallout from her father's arrest, and subsequent confession to a series of serial killings.
AGAINST THEIR WILL opens with a bang, and keeps up the pace, tension and jeopardy right to the very last page. Centred around Danny Boyd, a journalist who had been recruited to work for "The Open", a covert investigative unit hunting the world's worst criminal networks, she's very close to a breakthrough on a child abuse, trafficking ring known as Kronos, when her cover is spectacularly blown, and her future exploded before her eyes.