Rosemary's Newsletter
Authors of the Month
Lauren Williams
Before turning to fiction, Lauren worked as a lawyer, diplomat, actor (appearing as a murderer in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) arts journalist and museum communications manager.
Neighbourhood Watch is her first novel.
Penny Tangey
Penny is a librarian, mother and former stand up comedian living in Melbourne. She has published a number of children’s books,where she has won a Queensland Literary Award.
She has just published her first novel for adults What Rhymes with Murder.
Book of the Month
Getting Away With Murder.
Shari Lepena.
Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are, their status and their taste. With the grand mahogany staircase and stateof-art-kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. It is their sanctuary.
So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their beloved home and enviable lifestyle?
The answer is obvious, or, at least, it is obvious to Jill and Ted. The death of one wealthy family member could solve all their problems. Together, they will get away with murder.
As long as they trust each other. And as long as there are no surprises.
Recommeded Reads
The Last Encore.
Santa Montefiore.
When Pixie Tate is sent to solve a mystery at the old Aphrodite Theatre in Cornwall, she expects to find another restless spirit waiting behind the velvet curtain.
But when she discovers the theatre is just a few miles down the coastline from where she met the love of her life Cavill Pengower, she realises that it is no coincidence.
As she slips back one hundred years, Pixie knows she must only unveil what happened to he woman whose spirit haunts the stage today, but somehow sever this powerful connection with Cavill once and for all.
An Ocean and a Day.
Hannah Richell.
In 2014, author Hannah Richell was living a happy and fulfilled life in Sydney. Married, with two young children, she was in the middle of writing her new novel when the police knocked on her door to deliver the news that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident at Tamarama Beach.
An Ocean and a Day is the riveting, intimate and poignant story of the rocky journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also, more uniquely, an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance offer perspective and hope.
Hero.
Patricia Wolf.
DS Lucas Walker is back home in rural Queensland. With his own family in free fall and reeling from the dramatic fallout of his last case, Walker faces one of his toughest investigations yet. He’s just getting to grips with his new role in the small outback town of Katima when the body of a young man is found hanging in the park.
What at first looks like a tragic suicide, soon has Walker on alert when a connection with another death emerges. And then a brutal murder changes everything.
The victim is Caden Conroy, Australian cricketing hero, and the nature of his death leads to an unparralleled media frenzy. When Walker is sidelined by Brisbane Homicide, he must go his own way to unpick the lies and corruption at the heart of these cases. Only then will he know if they are connected. But at what cost?
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