Tag Archives: Australia

“The Dark Lake” by Sarah Bailey – Book Review

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Fictionophile

BLURB: The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty … Continue reading →

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“Tumbledown Manor” by Helen Brown – Book Review

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Fictionophile

“TUMBLEDOWN MANOR” follows the adventures of a woman who reinvents herself after a disastrous 50th birthday. A novelist, she packs up her life in New York and moves back to her native Australia. Don’t you just love it when a … Continue reading →

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“Worse than death” by Jean Bedford – Book Review

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Fictionophile

My latest reading adventure took me to Balmain, in New South Wales, Australia.  It is here that we meet Anna Southwood, a recent widow and novice private detective.  Anna found out that her late husband, Clyde, had his fingers in … Continue reading →

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“Evergreen Falls” by Kimberley Freeman – Book Review

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Fictionophile

“The level of behavior you overlook is the level of behavior you condone.” With alternating dual narratives set eighty-eight years apart “Evergreen Falls” is set in a majestic and historic old hotel in Australia’s Blue Mountains. In 1926, the Evergreen … Continue reading →

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“Hello from the Gillespies” by Monica McInerney – Book Review

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Fictionophile

This charming family saga opens on December 1st.  Angela Gillespie is composing her annual Christmas letter as she has done for over thirty years.  But this year, after she types in her usual salutation “Hello from the Gillespies” she cannot … Continue reading →

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