kcfromaustcrime

@kcfromaustcrime@aus.social

Support system for many dogs, cats, alpacas, chooks, ducks, peacocks, pigs, goats & sheep. Permaculture adherent, gin aficionado, whiskey drinker, long time coeliac foodie, unrepentant old leftie.

Dja Dja Wurrung land in North Central Victoria, Australia.

Reads a bit of crime fiction, works in #iso27001

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kcfromaustcrime, to books

New review just gone up on Newtown Review of Books - Poor People with Money by Dominic Hoey:

https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/dominic-hoey-poor-people-with-money-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/#more-21549

Fast paced, heart-wrenching, darkly comic, Dominic Hoey’s new crime novel is dark and unrelenting.







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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of Lowbridge by Lucy Campbell has just been posted at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/lowbridge-lucy-campbell

In 2018, Katherine Ashworth is struggling. The death of her daughter has precipitated a major falling apart, which she's self-medicating with sleeping pills and vodka. A move to the small town of her husband's childhood - Lowbridge - is the beginning of the fight for Katherine to regain a purpose to her life, and stop the self-destruction.







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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of Keep Her Sweet by Helen Fitzgerald has just been posted at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/keep-her-sweet-helen-fitzgerald

It must take real writing skill to create a novel around 3.5 of the most unpleasant, conflicted, dysfunctional and frequently flat out awful people you'd ever read about, and make it as compelling and downright fascinating as KEEP HER SWEET.







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kcfromaustcrime, to Japan

My review of The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji is now up at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/decagon-house-murders-yukito-ayatsuji

Published in 1978, THE DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement, a return to Golden Age style plotting and clue provision for the reader to discover along the way. It's often described as a subgenre of the honkaku style - which can best be described as whodunit's rather than why or howdunits.





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Just posted my review of Double Lives by Kate McCaffrey

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/double-lives-kate-mccaffrey

Harrowing and insightful, DOUBLE LIVES by Kate McCaffrey is a very topical exploration of issues around gender, identity, acceptance and truth.







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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My Review of Mole Creek by James Dunbar has just been posted:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/mole-creek-james-dunbar

Pete McAuslan is Vietnam Vet, and retired police officer, now holed up in the family's remote cabin near the small Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, writing his memoir. His grandson Xander is a Sydney based journalist, and they are close. So close that the shock of the death of Pete, and the suicide note found with him, is profound, and worrying.







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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of The Darkest Sin by D.V. Bishop - posted at Newtown Review of Books last week:

https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/dv-bishop-the-darkest-sin-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

Set in Florence in 1537, The Darkest Sin is the second novel featuring Cesare Aldo, an officer of the feared Otto di Guardia e Balia.






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kcfromaustcrime, to random

After having been forced to take it slow last week because of this blasted head cold, next week we've got the week off "work" so that we can get some "work" done around the place in preparation for fire season. Luckily we're on the edge of the worst areas - but still local indications are that it's going to be an utter bastard of a summer.

Which meant we were very pissed off when yet again Melbourne based news pretended that Western Victoria simply doesn't exist:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/23/australian-bushfire-season-how-to-prepare

Showed the same map in the news the other night as is in this article. Talked about the obvious big areas of concern in the NT, QLD and NSW, then went onto say that there was also areas of concern in SA and Gippsland.

So the entire of the Victorian Mallee doesn't exist it seems.




kcfromaustcrime, to books

There are times when I kick myself for being so far behind with my reading list - The Wife and The Widow by Christian White is a case in point:

If you've not read THE WIFE AND THE WIDOW yet then you're in for an absolute treat - but stay away from too many spoiler's and see if you can pick the twist before it slaps you over the head like it did this reader.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/wife-and-widow-christian-white-0






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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer has just been published at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/satsuma-complex-bob-mortimer

"... it's not a particularly bad outing, it's just not a standout, grab you by the throat, this is great stuff outing. And it's definitely going to be better if you can hear Mortimer's voice when Gary's on page. "




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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Extremely cozy, fairytale based mystery novel reviewed

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/mirror-mirror-whos-killer

Murder, Mystery & Magic... Who has silenced the magic mirror?

Ella Charming is a suspended Fairy Godmother trying to keep her head down in the frozen kingdom of Wyld Enchantment Woods where magic is strictly forbidden.





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Due out in October, one for fans of dark, historical thrillers with a touch of paranormal:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/bone-rites

Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley

Kathryn Darkling, imprisoned in Holloway, is facing death by hanging for her vengeance killing. Haunted by a spirit, she still hopes to perform the ancient black magic that will free her soul, or her struggle to punish the mighty will have been in vain. Will the love of her life come to her aid?





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kcfromaustcrime, to random

I've never been much of a sports fan. Except for test cricket, which is down to long days watching with my grandfather, who passed on his love of the tactics. In the highly unlikely circumstance that I would have wanted to play, not going to happen...
girl after all.

Then, a few years ago, I found myself increasingly addicted to road cycling, again because of the tactics revealed by SBS commentators.

This year has been a bit of a revelation. Hung on every moment of the as simultaneously lost interest in the . Got mightily pissed off with the level of coverage available for the but also lost ridiculous amounts of sleep over the .

Then, I found myself watching the campaign, and even the loss in the semi hasn't blunted the extreme good feelings from seeing those women play.

So here's the thing. Lost interest in the men's cricket because, frankly, thought the English men's team carry-on was pathetic. Can't abide AFL because of all the posturing and bullshit that goes on around and by the players (grew up in a country town in the 70s ... the double standard and crapola was nauseating.) Haven't been all that interested in A League, again because of the bullshit from players and supporters alike.

Turns out it might be that women play a talented, inclusive, no bullshit form of the games that appeals to this very marginal sports follower more.

And isn't it interesting that Sydney public transport had problems after last night's game because of a couple of dickhead men making it about them. And did I see that some men making it about them caused problems in the stadium crowd last night.

There's a pattern here.

And ffs no responses. I'm over that bullshit as well.

kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of one for the fans - Antiques and Assault by Rodney Strong:

The fourth entry in the Silvermoon Retirement Village series, ANTIQUES AND ASSAULT is part of what's overall a cozy, fun series, with 98 year old Alice Atkinson at the centre of a maelstrom of murder, vice and goings on that would do more than rock a retirement home - but Alice, and the retirement village she secretly owns, are made of much sterner stuff. Just.

Full Review at: https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/antiques-and-assault





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Review - A Virtuous Lie by Christina O'Reilly:

The third novel featuring DSS Archie Baldrick and DC Ben Travers, A VIRTUOUS LIE follows on from INTO THE VOID and RETRIBUTION. This is a series that might be best read in order, which shouldn't be a trial for anyone new to it - the first two are tightly plotted, engaging and only 160 and 180ish pages long.

More at: https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/virtuous-lie-christina-oreilly





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kcfromaustcrime, to random

Another from the new cookbook pile - Vietnamese Vegetaria by Uyen Luu https://bookwyrm.social/book/1338525/s/vietnamese-vegetarian

Again, will need some adjustments for but plenty of options that won't

kcfromaustcrime, to books

Just posted my review of Everything to Hide by K.V. Martins: https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/everything-hide-kv-martins

It's going to come as no surprise to any readers of EVERYTHING TO HIDE, that author K.V. Martins is a fan of historical crime fiction, in particular, the work of Dame Agatha Christie. It should also come as no surprise that she has a background in history and archaeology.





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Just posted my review of Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/winter-time-laurence-fearnley

Familial love, tension, friendship and interconnections are all part of Laurence Fearnley's novel WINTER TIME, set in New Zealand's MacKenzie Basin, a location which absolutely stars in this story. A place in which breath frosts, mists are all encompassing, peaks are starkly white, snow slopes glow silver-blue, and the lakes are black and dark.





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Just posted my review of A Runner's Guide to Rakiura by Jessica Howland Kany

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/runners-guide-rakiura-jessica-howland-kany

"Started this book with absolutely no idea what I was going to get, got through the first quarter with no idea what was going on, ended the whole thing thoroughly enjoying every word of it."





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Just posted my review of Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl by Fiona Britton at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/violet-kelly-and-jade-owl-fiona-britton

It's hard not to wonder what the line "Phyrne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper" actually means. Turns out it's a bit the timeframe and environment, the character of Violet Kelly, and the situation she finds herself in.





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Added to MT-TBR today is the 2nd Jane Halifax novel from Roger Simpson - Resurrection

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/resurrection

Jane Halifax is back in a twisted story of betrayal, where the formidable forensic psychiatrist will discover that the only person you can trust is yourself.





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kcfromaustcrime, (edited ) to books

My review of Traced by Catherine Jinks has just gone up at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/traced-catherine-jinks

"Beautifully paced, with a central character that leans out from the page, daring you to feel her pain, frustration, panic, fear and resolve, TRACED is a novel that shows the reader what it feels like to be afraid, and what protecting the ones you love the most in the world will drive you to do."





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of the amazing Pet by Catherine Chidgey has just been posted at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/pet-catherine-chidgey

"Unable to put down Catherine Chidgey's PET, I struggled to sleep last night as I thought long and hard about the "conventions" of society. "





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kcfromaustcrime, to books

My review of Mad, Bad and Dead by Sherryl Clark, the third in the Judi Westerholme series has just been published at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/mad-bad-and-dead-sherryl-clark

"If you're new to the Judi Westerholme series, it's one of those featuring a slightly older, marginally wiser, female character who's in too deep and doing the two steps forward, one step dance that quite a few of us might recognise."







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kcfromaustcrime, to books

Right ... I will try to keep this together but today bought to my doorstep A NOVEL BY ADRIAN HYLAND. THE SECOND JESSE REDPATH NOVEL.

I'm a bit excited. NO BEYOND EXCITED.

Adrian Hyland's latest novel - The Wiregrass is out in December from Ultimo Press and I'm so thrilled to see it arrive in all it's ARC glory!

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/book/wiregrass

"Nash Rankin is a disgraced cop trying to escape his past – his career was destroyed when he chose to take justice into his own hands. Now he’s living a quiet life in a small town caring for the local wildlife and trying to stay away from trouble."

The first in the series CANTICLE CREEK is out there if you've not read it yet

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/canticle-creek-adrian-hyland





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