Still Reading. Still Behind. Updates for the last fortnight. Lots of highlights: read The Chancellor, Liars and Woman Missing. Got hold of Best Served Cold, Prize Catch and When it Rains and Opal as well as the new to me Boney Creek and The Grapevine.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-6th-october
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Highlights from week ending 21st Sept are the intentionally very slow savouring of Gunnawah (advance order it / you'll not be sorry), and reviewing Kill Yours, Kill Mine and Southern Aurora.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-21st-september
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Bit on at the moment:
Reservation for Murder, June Wright
Gunnawah, Ronni Salt
Don't Eat Me, Colin Cotterill
The Chancellor, Kati Marton
I don't know why, with 100's of books here I haven't read, I even set foot in the library, yet here we are...
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/amreading-amlistening-19th-september
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Review - Southern Aurora by Mark Brandi
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/southern-aurora-mark-brandi
... great fearlessness - he isn't afraid to assault the reader with emotion and reaction. He always makes you think though, always makes you consider the story behind the facades that we see every day, and all too often, choose to ignore.
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In other great news Verse Chorus will be publishing a series of short stories by Mary Fortune in Feb, titled "Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging"
Timed to coincide with the release of a biography "Outrageous Fortune" Lucy Sussex, one of the editors of this collection, is an expert on Fortune & her life, much of which was spent on the Victorian Goldfields the setting for a lot of her fiction.
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Very excited to hear that Verse Chorus are republishing the first 3 Mother Paul mysteries by June Wright:
Reservation for Murder, Faculty of Murder and Make-Up For Murder
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/reservation-murder
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/faculty-murder
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/make-murder
Originally published late 50's / early 60's.
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Took a week off so this update is a fortnight's worth - highlights were The Call, The Crag and the arrival of Gunnawah by Ronni Salt.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-fortnight-ending-15th-september
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Last week on AustCrime, the highlights were many - reviewing Hitwoman's Guide and Double Jeopardy, and reading The Call (which is a really good debut) are top of the list.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-31st-august
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https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/amreading-amlistening-2nd-september
#amreading: The Body at Back Beach, K.J. Sweeney #yeahnoir
#amlistening: The Old Woman with the Knife, Gu Byeong-mo #audio
#amreading: No One Will Know, Rose Carlyle
#amlistening: Butter, Asako Yuzuki
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/amreading-amlistening-28th-august
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