 | As you can see from my list below, I am not making a lot of headway in making my TBR (To Be Read) pile diminish. Review copies are piling up, not helped by my self selected library books. Hopefully you will also find something to interest you among these.
See the history of this occasional post.
I'd like to also stress that there is no rhyme or reason to my selections.
Please note that this listing is in no way a recommendation for you to read a title, simply a chance for you to assess for yourself whether you would like to read it. I will also try to discover whether the book is available on Kindle, particularly for Australian authors which are not necessarily available overseas. |
Review books continue to arrive and I continue to read slowly.
Here is a selection
GOOD AS GONE, Douglas Corleone
Review copy supplied by
Macmillan Australia
Australian release scheduled for 1 Sep 2013
Available for Kindle
Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk works as a private contractor,
tracking down and recovering children who are kidnapped by their
estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won't touch stranger
abduction cases. He's still haunted by the unresolved disappearance of
his six-year-old daughter, and non-family kidnappings hit too close to
home.
Until, that is, another six-year-old, Lindsay Sorkin, disappears from
her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon
an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for past misdemeanors,
or he can take the case and recover the missing girl. Simon sets out in
pursuit of Lindsay and the truth behind her disappearance. But
Lindsay's captors have not left an easy trail, and following it will
take Simon across the continent, through the ritziest nightclubs and the
seediest back alleys, into a terrifying world of international intrigue
and dark corners of his past he'd rather leave well alone.
ZERO AT THE BONE, David Whish-Wilson (Australian author)
Review copy supplied by
Penguin Australia.
Publication date 21 August 2013
For ex-detective Frank Swann, being on the outside of Western Australia's police force is the only way to get justice done.
Perth
in 1979 is a city of celebration and corruption. There are street
parties, official glad-handing – even a royal visit – to commemmorate a
century and a half since colonisation. But behind the festivities a new
kind of land grab is going on, this time for mining leases. The price of
gold is up, and few are incorruptible before its lure.
When
Swann is hired to probe the suicide of a well-regarded geologist, he's
drawn into a mire of vice and fraud that has at its heart a lust for
wealth that verges on a disease . . .
By the author of the acclaimed
Line of Sight,
Zero at the Bone lifts the lid on Perth at the start of the mining boom to show a town where
Chinatown meets
Underbelly, and where the establishment and the lawless blend into one.
'Full of crooked cops, corrupt politicians and rapacious mining companies . . . I really enjoyed
Zero at the Bone.'
Michael Robotham
'Has
all the economy, pace, unexpected humour and local colour we've come to
expect from David Whish-Wilson. Highly recommended.'
Adrian McKinty
Bought recently for my Kindle
ALEX, Pierre Lemaitre Kindle version
Joint Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013
The other book was
THE GHOST RIDERS OF ORDEBEC by Fred Vargas.
In
kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the
chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost –
beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time
is running out.
Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives
have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope.
All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and
bundled into a white van.
The enigma that is the fate of Alex
will keep Verhoeven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before
long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
DEAD CAT BOUNCE, Peter Cotton (Australian author)
Kindle version
Very topical as Australia is now in election mode.
A federal election campaign is thrown into
chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up
dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.
With Detective
Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police on the case, the
investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes entangled in a
game of high-stakes politics. And all the while, the body count mounts.
Glass’s
suspects include some of the most powerful people in the land. With the
nation in shock and wanting answers fast, Glass has to negotiate a
murky world of shifting allegiances, half-truths, and finger pointing,
where everyone has a motive for murder.
And no one is safe
— not even the prime minister. As election day nears, Glass risks
everything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soon hanging
by a thread. But if he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he was wrong …
A TRACE OF SMOKE, Rebecca Cantrell
The first Hannah Vogel mystery
Kindle version
Berlin. 1931.
The year that Germany was lost to the Nazis. Storm
Troopers and Communists fight in the streets. Wealthy Jews and
intellectuals think of fleeing. Desperate sexual and social outcasts
cram Berlin’s famous nightclubs to wring out one last dance.
Hannah Vogel lives alone and works as a crime reporter.
On
a routine assignment, she sees a picture of her brother’s body in the
Hall of the Unnamed Dead. But since she loaned their identity papers to
escaping Jewish friends, she cannot identify him and demand an
investigation.
So she tracks the killer herself.
