Pile by the Bed reviews Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham, his twentieth but first set in Australia – a rural crime novel with three memorable characters at its heart.
Pile by the Bed reviews Full Circle by Chris Hammer – an Australian crime thriller set in the world of high finance and moneyed dynsasties.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Wreck by Riley James a survival thriller that sees two people try to survive on a remote island in Bass Strait while also trying to solve a decades-old mystery.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Doubles by Jacob K Gallagher an action-packed thriller set in regional Australia in a version of our world influenced by magic.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Reckoning by Vikki Petraitis, third in her Antigone Pollard procedural series
Pile by the Bed reviews Nothing Personal a suburban crime tale set in Perth revolving around a struggling young woman who comes into possession of a potentially life changing item that also brings her to the attention of crime gangs and corrupt cops.
Pile by the Bed reviews She Lied First by Dinuka McKenzie a standalone, Sydney-based domsetic thriller with a Sri Lankan flavour.
Pile by the Bed reviews Bad Neighbours by Joanna Jenkins, the third in her series featuring lawyer and amateur detective Ruth Dawson. Bad Neighbours brings Ruth back to Sydney and a very Sydney crime involving property deals, renovations and corruption.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Cold River by Margaret Hickey, the Australian rural crime fiction sequel to her award winning book The Creeper and featuring Senior Constable Sally White.
Pile by the Bed reviews Mire by Matt Nable a crime tale set in the late 1980s centring on an Australian stock market trader who gets himself tangled up with the Mafia.
Pile by the Bed reviews The End of Romance by Maria Takolander which follows a mother and son as they navigate a bleak view of the future.
Pile by the Bed reviews Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell a novel made up of poetry, photographs, notes and other paraphernalia telling the story of a woman who works for a government department that catalogues extinction.
Pile by the Bed reviews Three Reasons for Revenge by Dervla McTiernan a twisty, page turning stand-alone thriller set un Melbourne.
Pile by the Bed reviews The First Law of the Bush by Geoff Parkes, his second crime novel featuring the small rural New Zealand town of Nashville, set ten years after his debut.
Pile by the Bed reviews Shellybanks by Louise Milligan a resonant and fascinating but very different follow up to her debut Pheasants Nest that takes as its focus the historical exploitation of vulnerable teenagers in Ireland.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Shark by Emma Styles a dark story of two traumatised teenagers trying to find and take down a serial killer in Fremantle, Western Australia
Pile by the Bed reviews Redbelly Crossing by Candice Fox a stand alone thriller featuring two estranged, damaged brothers who are also investigating a murder.
Pile by the Bed reviews Click by Sarah Bailey, her second book to feature podcaster Oli Groves caught up in a potential serial killer case in Melbourne in early 2020.
Pile by the Bed reviews Steel Gods by Richard Swan the second book in his flintlock fantssy Great Silence trilogy, itself a follow up to his Empire of the Wolf trilogy.
Pile by the Bed reviews Old Games by Fiona Hardy the follow up to her NEd Kelly Shortlisted debut Unbury the Dead once again featuring morally grey fixers Teddy and Alice.
