Welcome to Dr. Siri Paiboun’s world! It’s 1976 and Laos has experienced ‘a quiet transition from what the president called ‘a bastardised version of America’…

The author (or publicist) is a master of the innocuous sounding book title. A World of Curiosities refers to a master painting found bricked up…

In the secret tunnels under the heart of London, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquires use their cunning and…

Lots of fun! If you’re a fan of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club then I guarantee you’ll enjoy this book. Judith Potts is seventy-seven…

Set in India in 1921 The Widows of Malabar Hill gives a fascinating insight into the complexities of being an Indian woman with ambition at…

Having thoroughly enjoyed the new tv series Three Pines, I felt impelled to explore the books on which it is based. So I started with…

I read this book in a day! It’s got everything! The Russian mob; several murders; police corruption; art fraud and more! Barry Maitland is an…

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…

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…

A referral during our monthly Mystery & Crime Reading Group led me to discover this series of three crime novels set in Cambridge UK at…

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…

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…