The Dead Room, by Chris Mooney (Penguin, RRP $25): I enjoy a good old-fashioned murder mystery and this book certainly delivers plenty of murder and mystery. This is the third book to feature CSI Darby McCormick, a ballsy woman law enforcement officer who gets things done. Don’t be put off if you haven’t read...
Cleaving, by Julie Powell (Penguin, RRP $37): By now, most people will know the name Julie Powell, her efforts to work her way through Julia Child’s recipes having been immortalised on film in Julie & Julia. This time around Powell decided to try a new challenge. Because after all that French cooking we’d all...
Skin and Bones, by Tom Bale (Random House, RRP $36.99): Here’s a book that will grab you by the throat from the very first page and keep your attention to the end. It kicks off with a massacre in a small Sussex village on a cold January morning. The almost painfully tense story of...
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