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The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
With A Song of Me and You: The escapist pageturner of the summer, Mike Gayle gives the reader a sweet, funny and heart-warming romance novel.4.5★s
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars for contemporary domestic drama
Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance by Aussie Author Kate SollyMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Positively, Penelope by Pepper D. Basham
The second book in the Skymar series, and providing the same experience as book one.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Cottage at Whisper Lake by Phillipa Nefri Clark
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Vidya Madabushi's Australian debut, The Days Toppled Over is topical, moving and thought-provoking. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
If you enjoy good writing, history, mystery and complex characters, join me in my love of C.S. Harris's Sebastian St. Cyr historical murder mystery series.
When Falcons Fall
is #11, (but do start with #1).
My review of When Falcons Fall
My review for
Murder at Elm House by Helena Dixon, #6 in her 1930s cosy mystery serieshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan
An OwnVoices middle-grade novel-in-verse. Loved the theme, liked the story, disliked the poetic bits.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Marlborough Man was my first taste of Alan Carter's storytelling - I liked it!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for the rather terrible Spring Break by Barbara Steinerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for the rather excellent The Wolf Den by Elodie Harperhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My readathon weekend reviews:
The Glovemaker's Daughter by Shari J. Ryan
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Murder at Castle Traprain by Jackie Baldwin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lure of the Jewel Sea by Rhonda Forrest
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Teacher in the Dumps by Monique M. Bird
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Without a Word by C.A. Larmer
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Glovemaker's Daughter by Shari J. Ryanhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Murder at Castle Traprain by Jackie Baldwinhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lure of the Jewel Sea by Rhonda Forresthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Teacher in the Dumps by Monique M. Birdhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Without a Word by C.A. Larmerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringlandhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Through the Snow Globe by Annie Rains
A Groundhog Day plus Christmas combo. Decent story but doesn't offer anything new.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Family You Make by Jill Shalvis
3 and a half stars
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Princess Diana may have been the last truly shining light in the British royal family. Children's author Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara doesn't shy away from the divorce and bulimia - unusual for a children's picture book - but focuses on her well-known kindness to all.
My review of Princess Diana with several illustrations and a bit of a whinge
American Girl by Wendy Walker is a psychological thriller featuring a neurodiverse teenager who witnesses a crimereview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reviews for my latest September reads:-The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot by William Rosen
- 3* -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Beyond the Point by Damien Boyd
- 4* -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay
- 4*https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Steps We Take by Vanessa Garbin
- 4* (AA)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Process: Finding My Way Through by Lucy Spraggan
- 5*https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Marriage by K.L. Slater
- 4*https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Bay by Allie Reynolds
- 4* (AA)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of
First Victim by L.A. Larkin, #3 in her Sally Fairburn crime serieshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is a very different book from Sebastian Faulks!
The Seventh Sonreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Death Comes to the Rectory by Catherine Lloyd
3 and a half stars
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Fans of horror, and Joe Hill will likely enjoy his short story, The Pram, despite, or perhaps because of, the gory ending. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany
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3.5 stars for
The Caretaker by Aussie Author Gabriel BergmoserMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
A decent historical story, but I expected far more. The title generates very different expectations.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Known during the Depression as "the most violent woman in Sydney",
Iris
Webber led a rough and ready life as a thief and prostitute. Aussie author Fiona Kelly McGregor paints a vivid picture of the underworld and extreme poverty of the 1930s.
My review of Iris
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