The Wreck by Meg Keneally pub Zaffre pb. eBook and audio

Sarah McCaffrey finds herself alone and on the run, after participating in a failed rebellion. She manages to board a ship bound from London to Australia, only to be the sole survivor of a shipwreck within sight of Sydney.

She reinvents herself and takes a job under formidable Molly Thistle, the head of a trade empire and soon realises that her life could be more than she ever thought, but then her past catches up with her…

A powerful historical novel, interesting, and page turning.

Someone’s Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass pb pub by Titan Books

Suspicion, obsession and revenge… Ouch.

Faith Finley is a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, and is a successful author, and the host of a popular local radio program. On top of this, she’s happily married to a respected food critic, Liam Finley.

Then it all goes wrong, and after that night nothing will be the same.  Liam is missing, and the police look on Faith with suspicion. Has she has something to hide? Or is she mad?

Then notes begin to arrive. Threats escalate, and it is up to Faith to solve the mysteries.

A page turner, full of pace, tension and twists and turns.

All the Best Lies by Joanna Schaffausen pub Titan Books. 

FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother?

Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib near to her. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. So, just who is his mother’s killer? Is he horribly close to home?

A heart thumping and sinister novel. Keep all the lights on.