Best new-to-me authors January to March 2012

I'd read 45 books by the end of March and was surprised to find that nearly a third of them were new-to-me authors, 16 in all.

The best two though were both Australian, and in fact both were debut novels.

A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN, Sulari Gentill is set in the early 1930s when Fascism appeared to be on the rise here as in the rest of the European world.




THE BROTHERHOOD, Y.A. Erskine is set in the police force in Tasmania and raises many of the issues that dog modern policing.

You'll notice that with at least 3 of the authors I am doing some catch up of authors I probably should have read long ago.

Here is my list

1. 5.0,  A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN, Sulari Gentill
2. 5.0, THE BROTHERHOOD, Y.A. Erskine
3. 4.9, THE NOBODIES ALBUM, Carolyn Parkhurst
4. 4.8, THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE, Lena Kaarbol & Agnete Friis  
5. 4.8, 1222, Anne Holt
6. 4.5, HAVOC IN ITS THIRD YEAR, Ronan Bennett 
7. 4.4, INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS, Imogen Robertson 
8. 4.4, THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS, Eric Ambler 
9. 4.4, BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, S.J. Watson
10. 4.4, THE RESURRECTION MEN, Sara Fraser
11. 4.3, THE CASE OF THE POISONED CHOCOLATES, Anthony Berkeley
12. 4.3, A LILY OF THE FIELD, John Lawton
13. 4.3, 8 POUNDS, Chris. F. Holm 
14. 4.3, THE HOT ROCK, Donald E. Westlake
15. 4.2, STEPS TO HEAVEN, Wendy Cartmell 
16. 3.8, ANTIQUES ROADKILL, Barbara Allan