# New Titles and Recommendations October 2025 Source: https://ballaratmi.org.au/library/new-titles-and-recommendations-october-2025/ ## New Releases ## Rosemary recommends > ##### Mystery *See No Evil | D S Butler* [Reserve](https://ballaratmi.org.au/reserve-a-library-book/) ##### Mystery *Two Kinds of Strangers | Steve Cavanagh* ##### Mystery *The Whispering Girls | Jennifer Chase* ##### Mystery *Kiss Her Goodbye | Lisa Gardner* ##### Mystery *Murder by Mistletoe | Jack Gatland* ##### Mystery *Ashes of Betrayal | David J Gatward* ##### Mystery *The Hallmarked Man | Robert Galbraith* ##### Mystery *The Girl Who Lied | Shannon Hollinger* ##### Mystery *Their Haunted Hearts | D K Hood* ##### Mystery *Her Silent Bones | Pamela Fagan Hutchins* ##### Mystery *A Rock and a Hard Place | J D Kirk* ##### Mystery *The Scene of the Crime | Lynda La Plante* ##### Mystery *Last Chance | Stephen Leather* ##### Mystery *Little Children | Angela Marsons* ##### Mystery *The Couple's Secret | Lisa Regan* ##### Mystery *Framed in Death | J D Robb* ##### Aust Mystery *High Rise | Gabriel Bergmoser* ##### Aust Mystery *Provocation | Geoff Davis* ##### Aust Mystery *Five Found Dead | Sulari Gentill* ##### Aust Mystery *Don't Say His Name | Rachel Givney* ##### Aust Mystery *The Stolen | Vikki Petraitis* ##### Hist Fiction *Before the Crown | Flora Harding* ##### Hist Fiction *The Lost Baker of Vienna | Sharon Kurzman* ##### Hist Fiction *The Secret Book Society | Madeline Martin* ##### Hist Fiction *The Midnight Secret | Karen Swan* ##### Aust Historical *Tenderfoot | Toni Jordan* ##### Aust Historical *Daughters of Batavia | Stefanie Keoens* ##### Aust Historical *The Stowaway | Mary-Anne O'Connor* ##### Psychological *A Neighbours Guide to Murder | Lousie Candlish* ##### Psychological *The Liar I Married | D K Hood* ##### Scandinavian *The Quiet Mother | Arnaldur Indriðason* ##### Scandinavian *The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer | Ragnar Jónasson* ##### Scandinavian *Mirage | Camilla Läckberg/Henrik Fexeus* ##### Scandinavian *Wolf Hour | Jo Nesbo* ##### Non-Fiction *The Last Lighthouse Keeper | John Cook/Jon Bauer* ##### Non-Fiction *Saving Dragons: The Life and Times of Russell Goldfield (Louey Yeung Man) Jack | Dianne Dempsey* ##### Non-Fiction *The Eye of the Dragonfly | Tracey Lee Holmes* ##### Non-Fiction *Survival in Singapore | Tom Trumble* #### Rosemary's Newsletter ##### Author of the Month **Rozzi Bazzani** Rozzi is an award winning author who has written fiction and non fiction, scripts,libretti and songs for theatre including two stage musicals together with a wide range of articles about music, theatre and performance for publication. She has been a regular contributor to the Arts pages of the highest circulation newspaper in Australia. **Rozzi** and Judith Masters will be **in-conversation** at the BMI in October, find out more via our talks webpage or get tickets below [Get Tickets](https://events.humanitix.com/host/bmiballarat) [Author Talks](https://ballaratmi.org.au/talks/) **Judith Masters** [More Author Talks](https://ballaratmi.org.au/talks/) Book of the Month The Last Lighthouse Keeper John Cook with Jon Bauer. **In Tasmania, John Cook is known as ‘The Keeper of the Flame’. As one of Australia’s longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania’s well-known kerosene ‘lights’ at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island.** Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude. Recommeded Reads The Midnight Secret. Karen Swan. **Jane is married to the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda – but he’s a bully. She inherited her mother’s gift of second sight, but only ever forsees her fellow islander’s deaths.** When death strikes at the heart of Jayne’s home, her marriage goes from bad to worse and she finds an unlikely friend. Glimmers of happiness tantalize her, though there’s no possibility of anything more. But as the day draws near, tensions on the island rise. Secrets are being forced to the surface, passions and enmities erupting with equal violence. A man is killed, as Jayne knew he would be, and her closest friends Effie, Mhairi and Flora are each implicated… The Liar I Married. D. K. Hood. **When I met my husband John for the first time, he swept me off my feet. Now I lie in a hospital bed recovering from a car crash, and John refuses to tell me what happened.** In a marriage full of secrets,there are always two sides to the story. But who is the liar and who is telling the truth? Tenderfoot. Toni Jordan. **Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner’s world is small ut whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing grey hounds that live under their house.** Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer with dogs of her very own. But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complex than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about-her family, her friends, the dogs- it’s up to Andie to reclaim her future. She willl need all her wits to survive this new reality of secrets and half-truths, addictions and crime. **Stay informed of our new releases** Subscribe to our Newsletter [subscribe newsletter >](https://ballaratmi.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=dd70ef083716c1e78fa7f77de&id=e81f7ed3c4#)