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MORTAL FRIENDS: A NOVEL BY JANE STANTON HITCHCOCK
This book is about a terrific murder mystery set in the United States capital. A serial killer is on the loose, suspected to be a member of the city’s elite. An antiques dealer is recruited as a society informant, partly because her lover, a notorious playboy, is a suspect.
KISS OF DEATH BY P.D. MARTIN
This is the fifth novel of P. D. Martin. It features feisty Australian Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler Sophie Anderson, who has psychic “flashes” and is investigating Los Angeles’ cultish vampire network after a young woman is found murdered with puncture wounds in her neck. Engaging with flesh and blood characters that resonate and just the right amount of grisly detail.
TRUTH BY PETER TEMPLE
This is about a Victorian homicide chief Stephen Villani, whose life is falling apart – a dying marriage, a feral teenage daughter, a father facing a raging bushfire. But when a girl’s body is found in luxury apartment, he knows what to do. He escapes to work. I loved the layers of plot and the brilliant writing of Peter Temple, but it was the character of Villani I took away with me: a good man in a hard world.