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The third RG Belsky crime thriller to feature harried Channel 10 news director Clare Carlson, The Last Scoop puts our heroine in the middle of both a puzzling murder story and the potential exposé of New York political shenanigans (spoiler alert: money is involved). Each of these leads take her down unexpected journalistic and personal

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With much of the world on lockdown due to Covid-19, many crime fiction festivals have cancelled this year’s events. Instead, some are offering crime fiction lovers the opportunity to join virtual festivals online and interact with authors at live events and book launches, or watch pre-recorded interviews and panels. May Newcastle Noir goes virtually live from

Good news Pratchett fans! Narrativia, Pratchett’s production company, has signed on with Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content to develop the Discworld series. Key word there: develop. It’s not set in stone that the adaptation will air—many projects go into development and never come out—but hopes are high so far. It’s not yet known in what order

Brit grit author Paul D Brazill follows his 2018 novella Last Year’s Man with a return to Seatown, where we pick up the continuing story of hitman Tommy Bennett. Perched somewhere on the Northeast coast, Seatown is cold, wet and windy, the kind of place that makes your joints ache as you acquaint yourself with

The Matanuska-Susitna School Board (Mat-Su) pulled five classics of American literature from high school English classrooms in a sweeping 5-2 vote. Pulled from curriculum are Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and The Great Gatsby

Today we’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime, a new guidebook to Australian and New Zealand crime writing. Craig has previously pointed us towards some terrific Kiwi storytellers, and now it’s time to discover more of what Australia has to offer…  What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Australia’? Green-capped cricketers straining

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It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the women from her mothers’ group. Setting out from Newcastle, New

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Tom Bouman has penned his third Henry Farrell novel and the cop, based in small-town Pennsylvania, is called out to investigate a headless corpse. It looks like a bear had been eating the man but killing the creature isn’t Farrell’s main worry – it’s the fact that the bear wasn’t the culprit. Someone in town

By now, if you’re a parent (or even if you’re not), you’ve probably seen the myriad posts of THINGS YOUR CHILD CAN DO FROM HOME! Your children’s school(s) may have posted or sent out links upon links to virtual field trips, tours, activities, and much, much more. You may be sick of it all or

As the UK ships Romanian fruit pickers back into the country for this year’s harvest after exiting the EU, more interesting to crime fiction lovers will be a new indie outfit set up to translate Romanian crime novels into English. First on the roster from Corylus Books will be Sword by Bogdan Teodorescu – our

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Riverside Close is a quiet, somewhat cliquey, cul de sac in North London. It’s tucked away from the hustle and bustle and some of the properties on it even have a little river at the bottom of the garden. Plum London real estate, then – and look, one’s for sale! The one with the estate

When I was a kid (middle school age), I was a big environmentalist. I read all about CFCs and aerosol, and my best friend and I even constructed a program where we taught younger kids in our school about recycling, the environment, endangered animals, and other ecological issues. As time went on, my fervor for

This literary crime thriller by Claudia Hagadus Long is part treasure hunt, part family story, part romance, part tragic history. Long weaves these elements together in a complicated plot through the strong voice of her story’s sympathetic narrator, Zara Persil-Pendleton. Zara and her husband Sam are Californians, on sabbatical in Manhattan for a few months.

The X-Men have a seminal role in my comic reading experience. Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics in 1963, the team of superhero mutants has fought for both mutant-kind and humanity for decades. Their roster has changed since then as beloved X-Men characters died and fresh recruits took their place. Only

Though as with most time periods, the boundaries are a little murky, the medieval period lasted from approximately the 5th century to the 15th. The era gave rise to a lot of gorgeously written romances which inspired much of the literature of the last 500 years. (My own favourite happens to be Sir Gawain and

The work of Hull-based author Louise Beech is really difficult to categorise. This is a writer who isn’t constrained by genre and her free-flowing style is all the better for it. You won’t find all of her work in the crime section at the book store, but it’s always welcome news when she strays into

Are you looking for a quick and engaging listen? Maybe you need a book to listen to during your 45 minute workout, or something to keep you company on a two hour afternoon hike. Maybe you just want a book you can listen to in a day (or even one sitting) to get a little

The lockdown for coronavirus won’t last forever, but if it means you’re taking a break from a busy lifestyle it’s the perfect time to dive into some of Don Winslow’s epic crime novels such as The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border. On the other hand, if you’re put off by 600-plus

Last year, Anna wrote a list of 14 House Plant Books for True Beginners. Since then, being a plant parent has become an official Thing, and the houseplant book world is only growing more lush. Here are five more books and a few extras to help expand your knowledge. Variegation and propagating are IN. Plant

Things get under way with a bang in this week’s new books column as an explosion rips through the English city of Durham in LJ Ross’s latest novel. The Shrine leads off a package of five books, which also include The Girl Beneath the Sea by popular magician Andrew Mayne. Sharon Bolton, Catherine Moloney and

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Fans of Carol Wyer’s series of police procedurals featuring DI Natalie Ward were left with their mouths agape at the end of her last book, The Blossom Twins. Ward had suffered a devastating loss, and as The Secret Admirer opens it is just three months since her daughter, Leigh, and Leigh’s best friend, Zoe, were