Karen from AustCrime finished reading Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor

Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is …
Reads a bit of crime fiction. Been reviewing with a focus on Australian and New Zealand works on www.austcrimefiction.org since 2006.
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When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is …
Helen FitzGerald is one of those authors who really knows how to write engaging and very offputting central characters that you care about, despite their obvious failings, flaws, and downright stupidity from time to time.
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/halfway-house-helen-fitzgerald
The thing with any novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist is to remember the stages of reading.
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/i-am-behind-you-john-ajvide-lindqvist-0
An interesting combination of a psychological thriller, with a couple of flawed, but engaging and very sympathethic central female characters, TO THE RIVER ticks many required boxes but does so in a unique form.
Birnam Wood is on the move . . .
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam …
Book number five in the Fiji Island Mystery series featuring local rugby hero, now policeman Inspector Joe Horseman and his team, this time investigating the death of a fit young reality TV star who dies most unexpectedly on a small island off the coast of Fiji, in the middle of filming a wildly popular show which features, for the first time, a Fijian contestant.
Full Review at: www.austcrimefiction.org/review/death-camera-bm-allsopp
A TV reality hit. Players dying to win. Can Inspector Joe Horseman penetrate a fantasy world to stop a killer? …
It seemed a simple request. ”Can you find my daughter who has run away?” But for professional gambler O’Malley, life …
The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident.
The second time was deliberate.
Now Paul Mulchrone finds …