Aussie Lovers of Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense discussion

Now that our read for July 2016 has been decided, it's time for everyone to nominate a book for our August read.

Nominate a crime/mystery/thriller/suspense book which is set in Australia. True crime or cosy mysteries are included in this :)

This thread will be open until 5th July, then our nominations will go to the vote:) Good luck and have fun!

Authors and publishers, please don't nominate your own work!

I nominate Murder in Murloo by Brigid George

Blurb: When a popular young woman is strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo, the residents are sure an itinerant surfer who disappeared after the murder is the killer. However, one year later the surfer is still missing and the killer’s identity remains a mystery.

The victim’s family call in investigative journalist Dusty Kent who has an impeccable record in solving the cold cases she writes about.

Oh that's a great book Sally! Great nomination :)

I'd like to nominate The Dry by Jane Harper.

The blurb:
Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well...

When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds start bleeding into fresh ones. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret... A secret Falk thought long-buried... A secret which Luke's death starts to bring to the surface...

Another excellent choice Carolyn! I've been umming and ahhing about this one...

It's had some good reviews Brenda so I was planning to read it.

Yes that's how I was looking at it :) My librarian asked me the other day if I'd read it and seemed surprised when I said "not yet"...

I'm going to nominate Fear Is the Rider by Kenneth Cook

One of the best thrillers I have read in a very long time - set in outback Australia.

I would like to nominate by Melanie Casey
Cass Lehman has a terrifying 'gift'...The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past...but not just any past; she sees death.
South Aussie Casey's debut is set on the Fleurieu Peninsula in a couple of fictitous towns mingling with Willunga and McLaren Vale.

That's another one I'd like to read Neville :) Thanks!

Not sure if this one fits, Brenda.

The Naked Room by Diana Hockley

Yes it does Sharon :)

Thanks Brenda :)

What was decided for July? I cant find the post.....

It's showing on the group's home page as upcoming Kerri - Bombproof by Michael Robotham

If you click on "polls" you'll see the votes up until close, and the thread is here in this folder of nominations :)

Great thanks Brenda, I have never scrolled down that far before! Looking forward to reading this one. Now will think of one for August nominations.

No worries :) Thanks!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Invisible Women - true crime about the murders f sex workers. I've read it but wouldn't mind reading it again. It gives these poor women human faces. Also, I just read The Dry, one of the best crime novels I've read in ages.

Moraig wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Invisible Women - true crime about the murders f sex workers. I've read it but wouldn't mind reading it again. It gives..."

Invisible Women: Powerful and Disturbing Stories of Murdered Sex Workers by Kylie Fox

Thanks Moraig - hadn't heard of that one...

Another book you might like to consider is one that I've been meaning to try - The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper

Was nominated in post #4 Rhondda - thanks :) Good to hear another recommendation for it!

Would you like to nominate another for us?

Closing this now and opening up the polls :)