Trial by Ambush: The Trials of David Bain By Joe Karam (HarperCollins, RRP $45) On June 20, 1994, David Bain called emergency services to report finding his entire family dead. His parents Robin and Margaret, sisters Arawa and Laniet and brother Stephen had all been shot in their Dunedin home and at first, there...
Dogs Make Us Human By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Art Wolfe (Bloomsbury, RRP $50): Dogs have been getting some bad press lately, with a few wayward canines making headlines for all the wrong reasons. However, as the author of this beautiful book points out,...
You’re Next By Gregg Hurwitz (Sphere, RRP $30): Mike Wingate and his family are thrown into mortal danger when a crippled stranger approaches him at a party and utters the words: “I know you, don’t I?” Those five simple words become threats, which then...
The Calling of the Grave By Simon Beckett (Bantam Press, RRP $39.99): The fourth novel to feature the haunted and brilliant forensic anthropologist, David Hunter, features a prologue set in the past, when his wife and child were still alive but unfortunately, The Calling...
Now You See Her By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Century, RRP $40): I don’t know how James Patterson does it but here he goes with yet another book: one of two published on the same day (the other being Middle School: The Worst...
Taboo By Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster, RRP $40): Husband and wife authors Kevin and Melissa Hill have teamed up to produce what is the first in an expected series of thrillers featuring CSI investigator Reilly Steel. There seems to be a real taste...
22 Britannia Road By Amanda Hodgkinson (Fig Tree/Penguin, RRP $40): This story starts, as so many do, with a young couple meeting and falling in love. However, in 1937 Poland no love story could be straight forward. As war approaches, Janusz enlists, leaving his...
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