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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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My review of the excellent rural historical crime fiction novel Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/bone-lands-pip-fioretti

1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district...




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@docdebwood @bookstodon it's very good. I don't think you'll regret it

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My Review of The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea was just published:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/waters-dead-catherine-lea

... first novel featuring DI Nyree Bradshaw (BETTER LEFT DEAD is now available), set in the upper north island region of New Zealand, with idyllic scenery, pockets of poverty, a strong, tight knit Māori community, and a lot of fractious relationships.



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My Review of The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea was just published:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/waters-dead-catherine-lea

... first novel featuring DI Nyree Bradshaw (BETTER LEFT DEAD is now available), set in the upper north island region of New Zealand, with idyllic scenery, pockets of poverty, a strong, tight knit Māori community, and a lot of fractious relationships.



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My review of One of Us Is Missing by B.M. Carroll was published this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/bm-carroll-one-of-us-is-missing-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

... one family’s celebration turns to disaster as a teenager disappears amid a crowd of concert-goers.





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#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)

Terry Pratchett
Connie Willis
Dorothy Dunnett
Gavin Lyall
Rachel Neuemeier
Lois McMaster Bujold
John le Carre
Isaac Asimov
Sulari Gentill
Josh Lanyon

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kcfromaustcrime,
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@CaraBruar

Bit of crossover between us :)

Terry Pratchett
Garry Disher
Sulari Gentill
John le Carre
Caimh McDonnell (because recently)
Georges Simenon
Paul Cleave
Maj Sjowall (with Per Wahloo)
Christopher Brookmyre
Stuart MacBride

(needless to say - 100authors5booksEach might not be too much of a stretch...)

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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

Interesting - do you have a feeling for why they have dropped out of favour?

I know I've been finding my reread of the Maigret series patchy going - some of them are brilliant / some of them decidedly dodgy when read with current sensibilities, but overall the good is still outweighing the bad ... just :)

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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

Oh that's interesting. Hadn't considered that angle!

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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

My partner is a big SF reader and has bemoaned exactly the same thing.

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@fkaOctaviaKeats @CaraBruar @bookstodon

Thanks will pass that on.

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Another not much happened update from last week on AustCrime. In my defence, a lot of books are being read, which isn't leaving a lot of time for much else.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-26th-april


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kcfromaustcrime, to TeslaMotors
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Musings on a most unexpected and extremely welcome side effect of switching to an EV.

https://snakegullyfarm.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-unexpected-benefits-of-driving-ev.html

Carsick dogs. A thing of the past.

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Another weekly update on AustCrime - up to the 19th April this time.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-19th-april

Some reviews, some new books, some books read, some queued up.




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My review of Garry Disher's latest novel - Sanctuary went live this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/garry-disher-sanctuary-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

"A new crime novel by Garry Disher is always exciting. In Sanctuary, he introduces a new protagonist: a female lone wolf."

Out now from Text Publishing.




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The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children's and YA literature.

https://alma.se/en/

The 2024 winner is The Indigenous Literacy Foundation:

https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

They provide First Nations people with access to culture and language through books and learning materials.

Wonderful news.

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A week in which nothing much happened outward facing on AustCrimeFiction

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-5th-april




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Update on AustCrime activity up until 29th March:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-29th-march

Books were read, a lot of were received, and some were reviewed.




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My Review of one that I really should not have tried to read. Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/darkness-runs-deep-claire-mcneel

As always, whenever the vehicle is contentious, DARKNESS RUNS DEEP is going to be a YMMV read.




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To be honest I can't say. Depends on your tolerance for football talk. It brings me out in instant hives...

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It's not best served in this one to my mind, the football just swamped everything.

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AustCrime update for week ending 22nd March - in which rather a lot of / New Zealand arrived, some reviews were written (), and some books were read.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-22nd-march


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Just posted my review of the second book in the not really a Dublin Trilogy, The Day that Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/day-never-comes-caimh-mcdonnell

When it comes to these books taxes and death are not the only inevitability's in life.





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Just posted - review of Deep in the Forest by Erina Reddan.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/deep-forest-erina-reddan

... there have been quite a few crime fiction books recently that delve into the world of cults, the people that get caught in them, and those trying to get them out. DEEP IN THE FOREST is a slightly different twist on that.




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My Review of Home Before Night by J.P. Pomare has just been posted at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/home-night-jp-pomare

Above all else, Pomare knows how to write tension, misdirection, pace and threat.





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Couple of bookclub gatherings ago, we read Devotion by Hannah Kent. Amazing experience.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/435971/review#reviews

Everything in this story is leading somewhere amazing. It's emotional, beautiful, touching, surprising and so incredibly moving. Sniffed, snuffled and out and out cried my way through the last part of this book.




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Everything you say is spot on. Such a wonderful book.

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