Murder in an Irish Castle: A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery

We meet Lady Eleanor and her trusty major domo Clifford, along with Gladstone as they journey to Lady Eleanor’s family castle of Henelley Castle, just outside of the small town of Derrydee in Ireland. That she is even away from her home at Christmas is surprise as she...

Bleeding Heart Yard

Bleeding Heart Yard In ‘Bleeding Heart Yard’, the third in the Harbinder Singh series by Elly Griffith, she developed from being a slightly awkward regional police woman, to being promoted to Detective Inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of the...

The Tilt

Once again, the master craftsman of crime Chris Hammer has woven an engaging tale in The Tilt. His characters are realistic and well developed, his plot is complex with many threads, but the outstanding feature of this book is his descriptions. The reader is...

Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking

Murder and food somehow, sometimes seem to go together at least in Miriam Quinones-Smith life anyway, but not because she goes looking for trouble, just the opposite; all she wants to do is be a good mother, enjoy hosting her own ethnic cooking show and settling into...

Double Lives

Double Lives from Kate McCaffrey is an absolutely brilliant read that gets you involved from very early in the book, actually from the first chapter, as that sets the scene up to a point, for what happens next. Amy Rhinehart is a radio journalist in search of a story....

The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat

Now, you would have to ask yourself why would it be a dangerous thing to be Trilby Moffat, a rather intelligent little girl who likes school, loves doing crossword puzzles and is simply trying to cope with a life that has suddenly gone a bit, well for want of a better...

Sea Shaken

Those who have followed the Castleby Series from JM Simpson would have been waiting with a degree of urgency for the next book in the series, Sea Shaken, to discover what has happened in Castleby since the final shattering chapter of Sea Change, when Jesse plunged off...

The Paris Mystery

Charlotte “Charlie’ James is a determined young woman. She lived in Sydney and was happily married until her world fell apart. As a journalist, she knew she needed a fresh start and a challenge, so she applied for a job with a Parisian paper, The Times. Speaking...

The Accomplice

How do you know that your husband is a serial killer? Now that she has become the most hated woman in the country will she ever get a fair trial?  She has been charged with being his partner in crime but she claims that she’s innocent. Is she just simply another...

THE LOVER

Secrets and lies often eat away at the soul; excitement comes at a price. How long can her extra marital affaire be kept a secret from her husband, family and friends in a close knit community, particularly when the lover is found with his throat slashed in his study?...

A Dish to Die for

Hayley Snow, well know writer and food critic for Key Zest is finally taking a break from the madness of life with her good friend Eric Altman and her husband Nathans small, but inquisitive dog Ziggy Stardust, when she realises Ziggy has gone missing. She decides to...

Lying Beside You

A woman, Myra goes missing and later turns up dead, her 67-year-old father has been bludgeoned to death and within days another young woman vanishes; feared abducted. Are these cases linked? It is time to seek the assistance of forensic phycologist and criminal...