Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The White Crow by Michael Robotham. Follow up to When You Were Mine, this is another effortless page-turning thriller from one of Australia’s best crime writers.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani a pitch black crime thriller revolving around a serial killer and his children.
Pile by the Bed reviews Vantage Point by Sara Sligar, a technothriller that explores set in the world of the ultra-wealthy but which brings up more interesting themes.
Pile by the Bed reviews Barren Cape by Michelle Prak a thriller that builds on the very real issue of teen and youth homelessness in Australia.
Pile by the Bed reviews White King by Juan Gómez-Jurado, the octane-fuelled final volume in his Antonia Scott Red Queen trilogy.
Pil by the Bed reviews Panic by Catherine Jinks, a tense Australian crime novel centred around a likelably flawed main character that takes its cues and is driven by real world issues including internet abuse, the wellness industry and the sovereign citizens movement.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommeds Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma – a thriller that draws on the damaging, contuing legacy of Apartheid.
Pile by the Bed reviews Two Times Murder by Adam Oyebanji, the second in his series about a a former double agent turned teacher who solves crimes while trying to avoid his former handlers.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter, an action packed espionage novel centring around engaging, kick-arse MI5 agent Slim Parsons.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Seventh Floor by ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey, the third in his espionage series that started with Damascus Station.
Pile by the Bed reviews Cold Truth by Ashley Kalagian Blunt a page-turning icy cold thechno-thriller set in Winnipeg in the depths of winter.
Pile by the Bed reviews Into the Flames by James Delargy a crime procedural that gets much of its tension from taking place in the middle of a massive Australian bushfire.
Pile by the Bed reviews Unfinished Business by Miles Franklin Award winner Shankari Chandran, a thriller that explores the final years of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Pile by the Bed reviews Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville a book that starts like a thriller before morphing into stomething darker and stranger,
Pile by the Bed reviews Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway, a novel set in his father John Le Carrè’s Circus continuity featuring spy Geroge Smiley.
Pile by the Bed reviews Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd an espionage thriller set in the 1960s featuring a travel writer who becomes an accidental spy.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Chilling by Riley James a debut thriller that effectively uses the inhospitable landscape of Antarctica.
Pile by the Bed reviews Hunted by Abir Mukherjee – a ticking clock American thriller involving terrorists, an election, radicalised children and their concerned parents.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas, an gothic novel set on a Greek Island and effectively told in an epistolary style.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Prey by Ysra Sigurdardottir a horror story set in the icy far north of Iceland.
