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Things that happened on AustCrime last week:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-14th-june

Highlights were a most unusual read in Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, getting to review Going Zero by Andrew McCarten and starting in on a couple of excellent books - one part of a series, the other a debut.




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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon absolutely loved Birnam Wood

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I thought of your comments about it when I was about half way in :)

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My review of the excellent rural historical crime fiction novel Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/bone-lands-pip-fioretti

1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district...




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Image of the book cover for Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti, with the subtitle "A One-Man Police Station. Three Murders. A Past That Will Not Stay Buried." The image is of a typical rural agricultural scene in the arid areas of Australia. The sky is a menacing dark colour, with touches of orange clouds. The very bottom of the image shows a skeleton , bones white from the sun sitting in bare earth. There's some low, dry looking grass above it, leading to a figure on horseback in the centre, a short scrubby tree to his left, and a small, deserted looking building to the right.
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    @kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon well that’s a definite wanna read from me- excellent review

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    @docdebwood @bookstodon it's very good. I don't think you'll regret it

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    My Review of one that I really should not have tried to read. Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel:

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/darkness-runs-deep-claire-mcneel

    As always, whenever the vehicle is contentious, DARKNESS RUNS DEEP is going to be a YMMV read.




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    Image of the book cover for Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel with the subtitle "In this small town's worst moment, will the community come together - or be driven apart?" The background image is dominated by a dark sky filled with stars, sitting over a wide gravel road that's rutted down one side. The road and the trees to the side are lit up as they would be from a vehicle's headlights.
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    @kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon me too but the premise sounded alright

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    It's not best served in this one to my mind, the football just swamped everything.

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    Update from AustCrime for last week - bit late. The clusterf**k that is our lives continues.

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-21st-june

    Highlights were Death Holds the Key - lovely couple of books by Alexander Thorpe and the latest in the Reggie da Costa Series - Lies and Deception.





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    Stuff happened on AustCrime last week, actual reading, reviews, and new books stacked up....

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-7th-june





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    My review of the not as cosy as you'd think from the look of it crime novel The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson:

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/tea-ladies-amanda-hampson

    THE TEA LADIES by Amanda Hampson is one of those interesting sort of novels that tippy toes a line between its cosy(ish) setting and some considerably more ruthless plot lines with a deftness that made for a really enjoyable reading experience.




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    Image of the book cover for The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson with the subtitle "They keep everyone's secrets ... until there's a murder". From the bestselling author of The Olive Sisters. The cover is white with a green / blue border. The writing is in a combination of black and red, there's a bullet hole image in the centre that shows some words / text from the book through the hole. On the right of the hole is a sewing dress model with a brightly patterned short shift style dress on it.
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    My review of Roger Simpson's second Jane Halifax novel Resurrection has been posted at

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/resurrection-roger-simpson





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    Image of the book cover for Resurrection by Roger Simpson "A Jane Halifax Novel) with the subtitle "Who Do you Trust When You Can't Trust Yourself?" The image is a night scene with a black sky and a brightly lit forecourt of some sort to the left hand side. At the bottom centre there's a rear view of a woman in a coat, her hair is hanging to her shoulder's and her arms hang out from her body. She's taking a step towards a male figure in a hoodie in front of her. He's standing with his hands in his pockets, hunched up, no visible features in front of some bright, but misty / foggy lighting.
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    Update from last week on AustCrime. No reviews sorry, stuff happened. But a bit of reading done. Notably Rosie Batty's Hope.

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-31st-may



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    Finally some actual things happened on AustCrimeFiction.org last week!

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-24th-may

    Reviews, new books added to the piles, books read, stocked.





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    Latest update (3rd to the 17th May) combined because:

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-3rd-17th-may

    As always some books read, some queued up, and better still a few reviews finally done and dusted.





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    My review of One of Us Is Missing by B.M. Carroll was published this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

    https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/bm-carroll-one-of-us-is-missing-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

    ... one family’s celebration turns to disaster as a teenager disappears amid a crowd of concert-goers.





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    Image of the book cover for One Of Us Is Missing by B.M. Carroll. The image is of a typical stadium style plastic seat in dark blue, attached to others either side of it. There's a bright orange set of headphones on the seat. The title of the book is in large white type at the top, running down to the middle of the image, with the author's name across the bottom. On the release version there are two quotes - 'A gritty and satisfying thriller' Ali Lowe and 'You won't be able to put it down!" Petronella McGovern.
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    Another weekly update on AustCrime - up to the 19th April this time.

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-19th-april

    Some reviews, some new books, some books read, some queued up.




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    My review of It Takes a Town ... to solve a Murder by Aoife Clifford was published this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

    https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/aoife-clifford-it-takes-a-town-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

    In Aoife Clifford’s third novel, the death of a local celebrity brings two old schoolmates together to answer some troubling questions.




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    Image of the book cover for It Takes a Town ... to solve a Murder by Aoife Clifford. The image is made up of a pale beige sort of plain background with "It Takes A Town" in large red letters on an angle at the top followed by "... to solve a Murder", smaller and in black. The author's name is at the bottom in slight smaller red lettering. Around the edges of the image there are a series of small vignettes done in silhouette style with black on a brightish green colour. From the top they include images of a woman standing at the top of the stairs (left hand side), next on the right there's somebody seen through the window of a caravan, then slightly down to the left there's an image of a clock tower, town buildings and trees and power lines. Then bottom left there is a man and a dog standing on the side of a water way and on the right a woman standing in front of a window with Venetian blinds at the top of it.
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    My review of Garry Disher's latest novel - Sanctuary went live this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

    https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/garry-disher-sanctuary-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

    "A new crime novel by Garry Disher is always exciting. In Sanctuary, he introduces a new protagonist: a female lone wolf."

    Out now from Text Publishing.




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    Image of the book cover for Sanctuary by Garry Disher. The main image is of a long, dead straight, red dirt road , edged by small trees and scrubby bushes, heading towards a low range of hills i the distance. The sky overhead is cloudy with a few sun rays breaking out. The quote at the top of the cover says 'Disher is a master at controlling his material, taking his readers along the dusty, rutted roads that always pop up when we expect bitumen smoothness. But it's a journey worth taking, for the pure joy of the writing.' Herald Sun The cover also notes that Garry Disher is the "bestselling author of Day's End", and under the title of the book at the bottom of the image it says SANCTUARY Nowhere Left to Run.
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    AustCrime update for week ending 22nd March - in which rather a lot of / New Zealand arrived, some reviews were written (), and some books were read.

    https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-22nd-march


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