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Spiraled : Callahan and McLane series. Book 3 / Kendra Elliot. Author: Elliot, Kendra. Publisher: Seattle : Montlake Romance, ©2015. -- ©2015. Review by: helen on: 1/11/2020 12:12:59 PM Member Rating: Good read with interesting believable characters.
The originals : The complete 2nd season / L.J. Smith. [dvd] Author: Smith, L.J. Publisher: Warner Bros, 2015. Review by: Plath, Elaine Mrs on: 16/02/2016 8:31:27 AM Member Rating: Excellent, twists and turns all the way through.
The cattleman's daughter / Rachael Treasure. Author: Treasure, Rachael. Publisher: Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, 2009. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 12:22:47 PM Member Rating: Born on the rugged Dargo High Plains and raised by her cattleman father, Emily Flanaghan has lost her way in life. Locked in an unhappy marriage in the suburbs, Emily misses the High Country with a fierce ache. To Make matters worse, her heritage is under threat. A government Bill to evict the mountain cattlemen is about to be passed. The Flanaghans could be banned from the Mountains their family has looked after for generations. When a terrible accident brings Emily to the brink of death, she realises she must return to the High Country to seek a way forward in life, healing herself, her daughters and her land. She finds herself falling in love with Parks Ranger Luke Bradshaw - then faces losing everything in the greatest challenge of all.....
Jillaroo / Rachael Treasure Author: Treasure, Rachael. Publisher: Camberwell, Vic : Penguin Australia, 2013. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 12:15:29 PM Member Rating: After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, "Waters Meeting", Rebecca Saunders throws her swag in her ute and heads North. A job as a jillaroo takes her into the rowdy world of B&S balls, Bundy rum and boys. When she at last settles down to study at Agricultural College, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome but very drunken party animal, Charlie Lewis. Will she settle for a life of wheat farming on vast open plains with Charlie or will she return to the mountains to fight for the land and the river that runs through her soul. It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds a strength and courage she never knew she had...
Thunder bay : The Mariners series. Book twelve. Author: Tonkin, Peter. Publisher: Sutton, Surrey : Severn, 2001. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 12:01:32 PM Member Rating: English couple Richard and Robin Mariner are soon to launch the revolutionary SuperCats, their fast ferry service from Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes of Canada. When the naked body of a young woman is discovered on the Lake, the ensuing murder investigation takes precedent over their test-runs. The dead woman's identity is a mystery- neither the Royal Canadian Mounted Police nor the FBI can shed any light on who she was. But, French-Canadian Jeanne La Motte with her Mowhawk blood, is no ordinary Mountie, and assigned to the case quickly links this murder to an earlier one at Point Noir. With Richard and Robin's help, the investigation turns to a mysterious Russian freighter that has been spotted off the Canadian coast....
The black hand : Barker and Llewelyn series. Book 5 / Will Thomas. Author: Thomas, Will. Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 11:52:01 AM Member Rating: Barker & Llewelyn are delving into the secrets of the Mafia - a dangerous place to be. As with his other novels, Thomas will have you engrossed.
The apostle : Scot Harvath series. Book eight / Brad Thor. Author: Thor, Brad. Publisher: New York : Atria, 2009. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 11:45:57 AM Member Rating: American doctor, Julia Gallo, kidnapped in Afghanistan and ransomed, leads the US government to engage Scot Harvath, counterterrorism operative. The US will deny any knowledge of the assignment. Harvath has to procure Mustafa Khan the ransom, an al-Qaeda mastermind -from Policharki Prison. He is on the most perilous journey of his life as he tries to rescue Gallo, knowing that his own government refuses to admit he even exists.
Ghost towns : Chloe Newcombe series. Book four / Betsy Thornton. Author: Thornton, Betsy. Publisher: ICGtesting, 2006. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 11:35:29 AM Member Rating: Judge Calvin Thomas is rumoured to have left for Vegas with a younger woman on his arm, but instead his body is found in a near-by ghost town with two bullets in his head. Former investigator Chloe Newcombe is asked to notify his relatives, but they don't seem to be grieving. Her friend Nate, a reporter working with the Judge on a controversial story, has disappeared. Has he been killed too-Chloe investigates and discovers Nate has been harbouring a dark secret of his own.
The execution of Sherlock Holmes / Donald Thomas. Author: Thomas, Donald. Publisher: New York : Pegasus, 2007. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 11:28:34 AM Member Rating: 5 stories of ingenious and mystifying tales of detection where Holmes and Watson solve the unsolvable.
Truth : The broken shore. Book two / Peter Temple. Author: Temple, Peter. Publisher: Melbourne : Text, 2009. Review by: val on: 14/10/2015 11:25:35 AM Member Rating: Inspector Stephen Villiani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment-in the glass bath a young woman lies dead. Villani's job as head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow-his job is his life-his identity-his calling-his touchstone. But as fires burn across the State, and superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds the certainties of his life crumbling.