April 2022 new titles and recommendations

Mystery 
The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley
Mystery 
One Step too Far | Lisa Gardner
Mystery 
Something to Hide | Elizabeth George
Mystery 
Dark Horse | Gregg Hurwitz
Mystery 
Deadlock | Quintin Jardine
Mystery 
Breathless | Amy McCulloch
Mystery 
Exit .45 | Ben Sanders
Australian
The Last Station | Nicole Alexander
Australian
Dressed by Iris | Mary-Anne O'Connor
Australian
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter | Lizzie Pook
Australian
Wild Dogs | Michael Trant
Novels
The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay | Julie Brooks
Novels
The Last House on the Street | Diane Chamberlain
Novels
Girl A | Abigail Dean
Non-Fiction
In the Shadow of the Mountain | Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Historical
The Gilded Years | Karin Tanabe
Historical
The Little Wartime Library | Kate Thompson
Romance
Invisible | Danielle Steel
Psychological
Girl 11 | Amy Suiter Clarke
Psychological
Playing Nice | JP Delaney
Psychological
A Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
Scandanavian
The Mirror Man | Lars Kepler

Rosemary's April newsletter

Author of the Month | Gregg Hurwitz

Greg is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities, he lives with his family in California, where he writes screen plays, comics and produces for the blockbuster television hit V.

Gregg Hurwitz

Book of the Month

The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay by Julie Brooks

Australia, 2016: Amongst her late-grandmother’s possessions, Molly uncovers a photograph of two girls dressed in First World War nurses’ uniforms, labelled ‘Rose and Ivy 1917’, and a letter from her grandmother, asking her to find out what happened to her own mother, Rose, who disappeared in the 1960s.

Compelled to carry out her grandmother’s last wish, Molly embarks on a journey to England to unravel the mystery of the two girls whose photograph
promised they’d be ‘together forever’.

The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay | Julie Brooks

Recommended reads

Exit .45 by Ben Sanders

Ray Vialoux is in trouble. Big trouble. He needs Marshall Grade’s help. Reluctantly, Grade agrees to meet. Over dinner in a Brooklyn restaurant, he learns that his former NYPD colleague owes money – a lot of money – to the wrong people. But the conversation is cut short by gunfire and suddenly Ray is lying dead on the restaurant floor.

As Marshall investigates the circumstances leading up to the murder, tracking down the drug dealers, bag men, bent cops and mob players within Ray’s orbit,
it becomes clear there’s far more to the killing than a gambling debt. Just who is responsible for Vialoux’s death…and why? What secrets are his family hiding? And can Marshall find the answers before his own history marks him as the prime suspect?

Exit .45 | Ben Sanders

The Last Station by Nicole Alexander

In the nineteenth-century New South Wales, the name Dalhunty stood for prosperity and prestige. The family’s vast station was home to more than 80 people, and each year their premium wool was shipped down the bustling Darling River to be sold in South Australia. Yet just decades later, Dalhunty station is on the brink of ruin…

The Last Station | Nicole Alexander

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