The good, the bad and the bookish

Dave Gurney was best known for his capture of some of the East Coast's most infamous serial killers; in his retirement a chance art clas...

Bored during his cousin’s bar mitzvah service, “Proud, but not very observant” Plotz idly picked up and opened the Torah in front of him. It...

Bill Brockton is called away from his home under the University of Tennessee’s bleachers to Florida in the height of summer, at the request ...

From the back of the book- In the ruins of a medieval monastery in Dorset, the diary of an 11th century monk is uncovered-and the murders h...

When cool new student Philippa-call-me-Pip Foxton decided she was her new best friend it transformed Stephanie Amstell’s life- formerly invi...

The nineteenth in the Amelia Peabody series, about a pair of British Egyptologists and their growing family of blood and choice set in the f...

From the back of the book Lancelot du Lac is the greatest knight of a peerless age, blessed by the Lady of the Lake with extraordinary milit...

From the back of the book- In high summer, darkness descends on Elgar's England. Shadowed by the Malvern Hills, the village of Wycheh...

From the back of the book- First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudel...

Andromeda Miller left her husband, North Archer, after only a year of marriage – after his uncle died North became increasingly absorbed in ...

Private investigator Sydney Sloane has mixed feelings about her sister Nora coming home to Manhattan to visit – she loves Nora, but her sist...

Subtitled Three women, the truth and a whole lot of dares , Anonymums is an account of three Australian women (Mums A, B and C) – Mum A had...

Bob Servant, something of a ne’er-do-well in Dundee, is an unlikely hero – in his sixties, with a somewhat shady past, a self-proclaimed lov...

When a local Vampire Queen knows she is dying she decides to take the ultimate revenge on a mortal enemy by turning her into the next Vampir...

Drifting righter of wrongs Jack Reacher is in New York City for, as usual, no particular reason. At two AM there are half a dozen people in ...

Jack Reacher only bothers those who bother him, or others. Directed where the winds, chance and his inner compass take him, Reacher is Color...

From the back of the book Mikita Brottman wonders, Just why is reading so great? It's a solitary practice, one that takes away from time...

Though he hasn’t a home, Jack Reacher isn’t homeless, he’s a drifter – since leaving the army he moves as the spirit takes him, carrying not...

Tran, Tran, and Hok broke through the heavy end-of-wet-season clouds. The warm night air rushed against their reluctant smiles and yanked th...

In 1989 Jack Reacher was an MP – as the New Year, and the last decade of the century, dawns the political landscape is set for a power shift...