The good, the bad and the bookish

Lou Arrendale is a bioinfomatics expert. Though high functioning, he and his colleagues in Section A are also among the last people in Secti...

Ella Canfield is a slightly nervous evolutionary biologist. Part of her nervousness is because her project is fairly left of centre - she...

Early in his life child prodigy Colin fell into a habit that became a defining characteristic - he had an extremely short-lived relationship...

Murder on a Midsummer Night From the back of the book- Melbourne 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator with a rather ...

From the back of the book: Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small time PI when a two bit perp's savage assault left her dead. For ...

A woman's infamous past is preventing her daughter from attaining a suitable match. Her pragmatic solution is to buy the girl a husban...

A time travelling serial killer is on the loose in a small town with a genetically engineered warrior hot on his trail. Knowing he has only...

The death of an elderly woman sends quiet ripples throughout her tiny community. Her sister copes with her loss by reading her sibling's...

Eighteen-year-old Quentin has always had a mild crush on his neighbour Margo - once close, their paths diverged when they were eight and dis...

Although a young woman's death is ruled a suicide her sorority sisters are certain she was murdered. They request the help of their alum...

Hiring newcomer Gretchen was an even better decision than the Elm Creek Quilters initially realised, for she comes with a husband adept at w...

Gin Bombay loves her work, and (mostly) loves her family - both are unusual, and they're inextricably intertwined, for though Gin is a s...

Catherine Linton became curious about the flies around the house her parents had rented out; her discovery of a bloated body was a shock, th...

Molly Blume is a freelance reporter in LA - her beat is crime, not Hollywood, and she moonlights with some success as a true crime writer. W...

Bonnie Markham has had a grim year - in the throes of an unpleasant divorce from a man she knew not nearly as well as she thought, she's...

In the summer between graduating from high school and starting college, eighteen-year-old James Sveck decides he doesn't need to continu...

Stephen Fry is intelligent, urbane, assured and the epitome of an Englishman - unless you ask him. In this second autobiographical installme...

Perhaps it's because, in the lead-up to a year without library books, I've glutted on the Elm Creek Quilts series, but I have become...

Judd Foxman learned of his father’s death from his sister Wendy, who delivered the news casually; it was almost appropriate, given Mort’s re...

As the composition of the Elm Creek Quilters changes, founder Sylvia searches for a way to represent, honour and welcome the departing and a...

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the pe...