Saki Blogs

Title: THE SOCIETY MURDERS Author: Hilary Bonney Publisher: Allen & Unwin Edition released: 2003 ISBN: 1-74114-120-6 Classification: True Crime 245 pages Reviewed by Karen Chisholm Why was Melbourne so fascinated by the Wales-King murde… more »

Title: PUNISHMENT Author: Anne Holt Publisher: Time Warner Books Edition released: 2006 ISBN: 0-316-72995-7 Classification: Crime 342 pages Reviewed by Karen Chisholm PUNISHMENT is the first in a newly translated, extremely successful serie… more »

Adam recently read this for review. Read his review at: http://tinyurl.com/rfqwb (Highly recommended incidentally :) ) more »

Title: KINGDOM COME Author: J. G. Ballard ISBN: 0007242891 Publisher: Fourth Estate Pages: 280 Reviewed By: Adam Donnison Richard Pearson has come to the Heathrow hinterland town of Brooklands to settle his father's estate and to find out who ki… more »

Title: MURDER AT THE FORTNIGHT Author: Steve J Spears Publisher: Wakefield Edition released: 2003 ISBN: 1-86254-616-9 Classification: Crime 195 pages MURDER AT THE FORTNIGHT is set in the testing arena of the "theatre" and the arts. Showbiz co… more »

Title: SHAVED FISH Author: Susan Geason Publisher: Allen & Unwin Edition released: 1990 ISBN: 0-04-442274-1 Classification: Crime 159 pages Syd Fish is a failed journalist, sacked political minder and start up private investigator on the "m… more »

The UNDERBELLY series is a set of shortish books written by journalists Silvester and Rule covering various events in the criminal underworld of Victoria in particular. Underbelly 9 covers the shooting of Andrew Veniamin by Mick Gatto, and Gatto's su… more »

Title: HIT Author: Tara Moss Publisher: Harper Collins Edition released: 2006 ISBN: 0-7322-7674-8 Classification: Crime 474 pages Review by Karen Chisholm Meaghan Wallace is invited to one of the "must be at" social events in Sydney - a part… more »

Title: SUN AND SHADOW Author: Ake Edwardson Publisher: Penguin Edition released: 2006 ISBN: 0-14-303718-8 Classification: Crime 392 pages Erik Winter is the youngest chief inspector in Sweden. He's quite the snappy dresser, an intuitive if sli… more »

Title: INVOLUNTARY WITNESS Author: Gianrico Carofiglio Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Edition released: 2005 ISBN: 1-904738-07-9 Classification: Crime 274 pages When a 9 year old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well, an immigrant peddla… more »

Title: HODDLE STREET, The Ambush and the Tragedy Author: Peter Haddow Publisher: Strategic Australia Pty Ltd Edition released: 1998 ISBN: 0958609209 Classification: True Crime 296 pages This was published some considerable time ago, but for som… more »

Title: HELL'S KITCHEN Author: Chris Niles Publisher: Pan Edition released: 2001 ISBN: 0-330-48292-9 Classification: Crime 406 Pages From the book: "Cyrus - is a millionaire recluse. Oh and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and… more »

Title: BODY COUNT Author: P D Martin Publisher: Pan MacMillan Edition released: 2005 ISBN: 0-330-42221-9 Classification: Crime 392 pages From the book cover: "When a young woman's mutilated body is found in DC, Australian FBI profiler Sophie A… more »

Title: PACKING DEATH Author: Lachlan McCulloch Publisher: Sly Ink Edition released: 2005 ISBN: 0 9752318 6 3 Classification: True Crime 303 pages This is the true crime story of (then) Detective Senior Constable Lachlan McCulloch and the under… more »

An old release - originally published in 1994, Pig's Head is the first in the 4 Pufferfish novels by David Owen and so far it's been the only one I've never been able to get my hands on. Imagine my sheer delight when Kill City in Swanston Street reveal… more »