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What a great debut effort from Anna Johnston. It’s an interesting premise on which to base a plot: the concept that you are mistaken for someone else and then take on their identity, although without an overly selfish motivation apart from a need for
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"The Bathing Box Murders, is a historical fiction novel written by Melbourne author Laraine Stephens. The latest novel in the series featuring super sleuth Reggie Da Costa, journalist with the Argus newspaper set in the 1920’s. Well written and a good"
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"This was a really fun read for me, with all the elements that I enjoy in this series:
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"Reggie Da Costa, always up to something and always nosing around. This time its a bathing box murder!
Reggie finds himself investigating what appear to be murders on the beach in Melbourne, Australia. The bodies being found under bathing boxes. All th" Read more of this review » |
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| When the winter is over and the snow melts, what has been hidden is revealed. In ‘Spring Melt’, Lori Duffy Foster introduces us to an intriguing scenario. Ella Devine, now 28 years of age, was raped by Henry Roth when she was nine. The crime was cove ...more | |
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‘She’s dead, and we’re free of her at last.’ Rowena Kettering is dead and the main suspect is the lover of her husband. But did Daphne Clements really kill the former actress and were her words the proof of her guilt? Matthew Booth has written another ...more |
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