The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht
The Coast is a powerful historical novel that spans many turbulent years in Australia’s history, including the First World War and the Spanish Flu epidemic….
Book Reviews
Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinger Kaur #3) by Elly Griffiths
DI Harbinder Kaur is thrilled to be in charge of a Murder Investigation Team based in West Kensington; finally living in in a share house…
2022 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Books
Have you managed to read all of SMSA’s most popular books? Discover our Top 10 most borrowed titles for 2022, in our Year in Review…
2022 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
2022 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2021, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
Dark Deeds Down Under by Craig Sisterson
A short review for a book of short stories! Do borrow this book of short stories from current Australian and New Zealand crime authors. I…
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
As we approach the end of another year (for those of us still alive), we would like to honour some important milestones of the literature…
The Great Darkness (Nighthawk #1) by Jim Kelly
A referral during our monthly Mystery & Crime Reading Group led me to discover this series of three crime novels set in Cambridge UK at…
The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope #10) by Ann Cleeves
This is the tenth Vera Stanhope book and does not disappoint. The discovery of a man’s hanged body on Holy Island takes Vera and her…
A Catalogue of Catastrophe (Chronicles of St. Mary’s #13) by Jodi Taylor
Previous reviews of this British author’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series have recommended her works to those readers who adore the mayhem of St Trinians,…
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
The Night Ship tells two stories, both from the perspective of a motherless child, both bound to the inhospitable seas and islands off the western…
Digging Up Dirt (Poppy McGowan #1) by Pamela Hart
This is a fun murder-mystery, set in the leafy Sydney suburb of Annandale. Poppy McGowan is a researcher for an ABC TV kids’ programme. In…