My review of Mad, Bad and Dead by Sherryl Clark, the third in the Judi Westerholme series has just been published at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/mad-bad-and-dead-sherryl-clark

"If you're new to the Judi Westerholme series, it's one of those featuring a slightly older, marginally wiser, female character who's in too deep and doing the two steps forward, one step dance that quite a few of us might recognise."

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Bookmail time again - catching up on an overdue offering from NZ/AUS writer J.P. Pomare - The Wrong Woman

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/wrong-woman

A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller.

Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising his former Chief of Police boss he'd never return. He made a new life in the city, became a PI and turned his back on his old life for good.

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#AmReading stepping away from the standard #SouthernCrossCrime reading list for a while to return to one of my great loves, Japanese crime fiction

The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time. In...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52706058-the-honjin-murders

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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon I know you were not a big fan of his first book, but I am really enjoying Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt and The Tilt (about ¾ through that one). Haven't read his earlier ones yet but will.

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It's Friday afternoon and any excuse to not do the day job, so a quick list of favourite Aus/Nz authors for your disagreement 😘

1/ Garry Disher (AUS) - master at dark arts of rural noir / (and suburban / city noir) as well as morally ambiguous central characters (fingers always crossed for more Wyatt books from him).

2/ Paul Thomas (NZ) under-discussed author of the terrific Tito Ihaka series. Well worth tracking down if you're a fan of police procedurals with a great set of twists.

3/ Dave Warner (AUS) - great back catalogue of police procedural / pi / accidental detective novels with a strong sense of place and time (some of the early ones were just gloriously funny).

4/ and 5/ Recent Ngaio Marsh Award Winners Becky Manawatu and Jacqueline Bublitz (NZ) - astounding books from both of these writers exploring very different aspects of crime and consequence.

6/, 7/ and 8/ Aoife Clifford, Shelley Burr and Margaret Hickey who are following in the footsteps of Jane Harper (AUS) when it comes to rural Australian crime.

9/ Sulari Gentill (AUS) who writes an historical series that's packed with factual components, serious subject matter delivered in a seriously entertaining manner (her recent couple of meta-fiction have been fab as well).

10/ From the no longer with us and boy do we miss them category - the Peter's (Temple and Corris: AUS). Trailblazers.

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My #review of #books Miracle by Jennifer Lane - it's the #YeahNoir (New Zealand) and #SouthernCrossCrime (NZ / Australian connection) #CrimeFiction story of a 14 year old girl, in a dead end town, who finds herself in a really tricky emotional situation when her father is charged with a serious assault which she thinks is her fault https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/miracle-jennifer-lane