Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Royal Murder is the second book in the Rebecca Keith Mysteries by Sandra Winter-Dewhirst. The first book The Popeye Murder introduces journalist Rebecca Keith, her boyfriend Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jarvie, as well as the landscape and lifestyle in and around Adelaide. Murder in the earlier book and in this one
Reviewed by Rod McLary Arguably, Sylvia Plath is better known for the manner of her death than for her poetry and her only published novel The Bell Jar. However, the novel and her posthumously published collection of poems Ariel eventually ensured that her poetic reputation achieved the ascendancy. This beautifully bound first volume of letters
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Sandra Winter-Dewhirst has begun writing a series of novels of which The Popeye Murder is the first. It was re-released (I believe with a new cover) in conjunction with the launch of her second novel in the series A Royal Murder. A third novel, A Festival of Murders, will be published in
Reviewed by Ian Lipke This gripping story begins with a woman, who paints nightmarish visions, running in terror. She believes her pursuer to be the man who led a cult that almost destroyed her when she was a child. Rather than let him get his hands on her she throws herself from a cliff into
Reviewed by Ian Lipke This is the third in Chris Ryan’s Strike Back series and maintains the level of the other two. The plot is not much different. In this case, a washed-up middle-aged man renews a friendship with an ex-colleague for the purpose of monetary gain. He has an explosive document that purports
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Miss Burma is a novel by Charmaine Craig and is based on the lives of the author’s mother, Louisa, and grandparents, Benny and Khin. It is a story of loyalty, infidelity, patriotism, identity, love and loss. It is the story of Burma’s history from colonization, to Japanese invasion during World War
Reviewed by Norrie Sanders How many couples can say that their breakup led to the establishment of an international institution? Zagreb art professionals Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić had a four year love affair before a quiet dissolution. In the inevitable sorting of mutual property, they agreed to retain a windup fluffy toy as the
Reviewed by Rod McLary Blood runs freely in this novel by J R Ward – blood in all its manifestations: lineage, killings and, most apposite for this book, feeding on blood by the Vampires. Blood Fury is set in a world [perhaps this one] where Vampires co-exist with humans but are threatened by the
Reviewed by Angela Marie The assignment – Review a children’s book. Where to start? Step One : Locate someone with a great sense of humour and an appreciation of artwork, and a voracious appetite for reading. And ensure that this person fits the target audience. Enter Rocco, a lover of the novels of Roald Dahl,
Reviewed by Rod McLary Sarah and Hannah, her grand-daughter, are travelling by cruise ship from San Diego to Sydney repeating a trip which Sarah made sixty-eight years previously but in the other direction. Sarah was a war bride and, in the last few weeks of the Second War World, married an American serviceman from Virginia.
Reviewed by Rod McLary The title of this book is taken from a poem – The Drunken Boat – written at age 16 by the enfant terrible of French poetry Arthur Rimbaud. The Drunken Boat believes it is freely floating but instead it is being guided by the ‘poem of the sea’ and sees splendid
Reviewed by Mike Clarke Lynda La Plante CBE is a prolific English author, screenwriter and actress. In 2009 she was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame. In 2013 La Plante was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Forensic Science Society (FSSoc). She was the first non-scientist to be awarded this honour for
