Pile by the Bed reviews Sticks and Stones by Katherine Firkin an effective debut crime thriller procedural set on Melbourne’s mean streets.

Pile by the Bed reviews Seven Lies an unreliable narrator thriller debut by Elizabeth Kay

Pile by the Bed reviews Saint X the debut novel by Alexis Schaitkin which uses the crime genre to explore the impact of a tragedy.

Pile by the Bed reviews Our Dark Secret, a dark coming of age tale by Jenny Quintana

Pile by the Bed reviews The Slaughterman’s Daughter, a wild ride across 19th century Poland by Israeli writer Yaniv Iczkovits

Award winning Australian crime author Candice Fox focuses on four damaged women in her latest crime thriller Gathering Dark.

Pile by the Bed reviews Sweetness and Light the second book by Australian author Liam Pieper, which explores the relationship between Westerners and their idea of India

Pile by the Bed reviews False Value, the eighth entry in Ben Aaronovitch’s always enjoyable urban fantasy meets crime Rivers of London Series

Pile by the Bed reviews Amnesty, the new book by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga, a morality play featuring an illegal Sri Lankan refugee in Sydney

Pile by the Bed reviews The Holdout by Graham Moore – a twisted thriller that builds off a ten year old jury trial in which one juror convinced the others to acquit.

Pile by the Deb reviews Dare to Think by Belle Currer, the first in a new dystopian crime fiction series.

Pile by the Bed reviews Hi Five by Joe Ide, the fourth book in his IQ crime fiction series set in Los Angeles.

Pile by the Bed reviews Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh – another page-turning, twisty Eddie Flynn legal thriller with a killer premise.

Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan, the third in her Cormac Reilly series which started with The Ruin.

Pile by the Bed reviews February’s Son by Alan Parks, the second in his dark tartan noir series set in Glasgow in 1973.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray, a high-concept post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Devil by Nadia Dalbuono, the fifth in her Italian procedural series featuring Leone Scarmacio

Pile by the Bed reviews The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith, the ninth of his Arkady Renko novels, a series which started with Gorky Park.

Pile by the Bed reviews A Murder on Malabar Hill – the start of a new historical crime series by Sujata Massey set in 1920s India and featuring Perveen Mistry, one the country’s only female lawyers

Pile by the Bed reviews The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry (Raven and Fisher #2) historical crime fiction sequel to The Way of All Flesh.