The Widows’ Guide to Last Orders

By

Amanda Ashby

A Widow’s Guide to Last Orders begins with a map which proves to be most useful as you join Ginny and her friends in the small country town of Little...
Hunting Ground

By

Andrew Warren

Once you move past the very graphic violence in the first chapter of Hunting Ground from Andrew Warren accepting that this is the norm, there is an excellent story of...
The Shark 

By

Emma Styles.

True Crime readers will no doubt remember the Claremont Killings of 1996-7, which resulted in a 24-year investigation; the longest and most expensive investigation in Australian history and the ultimate...
A Very Irish Mystery

By

Verity Bright

Once again, the intrepid trio of Lady Eleanor Swift, her handsome husband Huge Seldon and Clifford, her major-domo extraordinaire, along with Gladstone have found a simple trip to Ireland to...
The Season for Flying Saucers

By

Brendan Colley

Between 12th February and 14th April 1976 there were at least nine separate occasions of sightings of UFO’s  in Maydena, a small Tasmanian locally, which were reported to the Tasmanian...
The Private Side of Friendship

By

Alexander McCall Smith

As always, Alexander McCall Smith delivers an interesting story about people, their thoughts and ideas and interactions in The Private Side of Friendship. This time the familiar setting in Edinburgh...
Department of the Vanishing

By

Johanna Bell

In this stunning debut novel, Department of the Vanishing, blurs fact and fiction into a chilling and all too real reality. Johanna Bell roars from the highest pinnacle using the...
A Most Unsuitable Suitor

By

Emma Orchard

The season is dragging on in London and Allegra Constantine is feeling the pressure as she is expected to choose a husband, or have a man choose her as his...
The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach

By

Rebecca Raisin.

Rebeca Raisin’s latest dose of escapism The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach is set in the wonderfully exotic location of Ésperé in the  Seychelle’s Islands, a place where dreams can come...
The Bewitching Miss Blair

By

Darcy McGuire

Clio Blair is a young lady with some very interesting capabilities, a slight temper and a love of outrageous fashion statements. She firmly believes she is capable of crime solving,...