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Exiles by Jane Harper

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It seems like 2023 is turning out to be the year of crime fiction farewells. First came the end, for the time being at least, of Elly Griffiths’ series featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway; now, thousands of miles and continents away it is time to…
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The Dry by Jane Harper

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The town of Kiewarra, somewhere in rural south-eastern Australia, is a community on the brink. A drought is making life extremely difficult for the locals. So nobody is really surprised when farmer Luke Hadler is found with a self-inflicted shotgun wound, his wife and eldest son…
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Interview: Rosy Fenwicke

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“If not now, when?” This is the question that buzzed in the head of Rosy Fenwicke when she retired from medicine and started her first novel. After conquering that challenge with Hot Flush – about a midlife woman who develops superpowers and solves crimes –…
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The Broken River by Chris Hammer

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The parched landscape of the Australian outback has provided a compelling backdrop for many a crime novel in recent years. Think of The Dry by Jane Harper, Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted, or Chris Hammer’s debut, Scrublands. But there’s water aplenty in Hammer’s latest, The Broken…
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