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Support system for many dogs, cats, alpacas, chooks, ducks, peacocks, pigs, goats & sheep. Permaculture adherent, gin aficionado, whiskey drinker, long time coeliac foodie, unrepentant old leftie.

Dja Dja Wurrung land in North Central Victoria, Australia.

Reads a bit of crime fiction, works in #iso27001

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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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My review of Roger Simpson's second Jane Halifax novel Resurrection has been posted at

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/resurrection-roger-simpson





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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Update from last week on AustCrime. No reviews sorry, stuff happened. But a bit of reading done. Notably Rosie Batty's Hope.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-31st-may

#Books
#CrimeFiction
#AusCrime

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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Finally some actual things happened on AustCrimeFiction.org last week!

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-24th-may

Reviews, new books added to the piles, books read, stocked.

#CrimeFiction
#Review
#AusCrime
#YeahNoir
#books

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timrichards, to random
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Visiting Ballarat today. V/Line cancelled our preferred return train, so we're killing some time at the Provincial Hotel across the way. Lovely place to wait for a train. #Ballarat

kcfromaustcrime,
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@timrichards

Can highly recommend dropping into the Goods Shed / Itinerant Spirits just over the road on the other side of the Station for a G&T if you have the time....

kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Yesterday I posted a review of books 3 - 7 in the "Dublin Trilogy" (Adrian McKinty, I'm looking at you...)

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/dublin-trilogy-books-3-7-caimh-mcdonnell

Anyway, I listened to these, they were funny, bit on the silly side and really enjoyable.



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kcfromaustcrime,
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@jancampbellcady @bookstodon

The reference is really all about Irish authors & their concept of a trilogy :) McKinty's Sean Duffy series was billed as a trilogy, until book 4 came out. Then we didn't know what to call it anymore, and however you look at it, The Dublin Trilogy with 7 books and 2 novellas... it made me laugh a lot :) There is a 7th book in the Duffy series on the way here now - The Detective Up Late (which just to add to the confusion appears to be also known as Cold Water).

kcfromaustcrime,
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@jancampbellcady @bookstodon

And I'm guessing you've read the Bloomsbury / Dead Trilogy (which did turn out to be 3 books!) :)

kcfromaustcrime,
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@jancampbellcady @bookstodon lol I hope that's not the case, the living too long bit. I'm surrounded by books hoping to live another 60 years or so (statistically impossible) :)

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Just posted a review of The Last Devil to Die, the 4th book in the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/last-devil-die-richard-osman

This is such a joy of a light(ish) crime fiction series that I've had the great pleasure of listening to.

#CrimeFiction
#Books
#BookReview

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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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My review of the second Cal Nyx book by Kim Hunt, The Quarry was just posted at:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/quarry-kim-hunt

A well balanced combination of extremely good characters, a very solid and intriguing plot, great atmosphere and some well placed social commentary into the bargain, THE QUARRY tackles quite a bit and achieves all of it with considerable flair.

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#YeahNoir
#Books
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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Latest update (3rd to the 17th May) combined because:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-3rd-17th-may

As always some books read, some queued up, and better still a few reviews finally done and dusted.

#CrimeFiction
#YeahNoir
#AusCrime
#BookReview
#books

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My review of the excellent rural historical crime fiction novel Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/bone-lands-pip-fioretti

1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district...

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#auscrime

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kcfromaustcrime,
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@docdebwood @bookstodon it's very good. I don't think you'll regret it

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My Review of The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea was just published:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/waters-dead-catherine-lea

... first novel featuring DI Nyree Bradshaw (BETTER LEFT DEAD is now available), set in the upper north island region of New Zealand, with idyllic scenery, pockets of poverty, a strong, tight knit Māori community, and a lot of fractious relationships.

#CrimeFiction
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My Review of The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea was just published:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/waters-dead-catherine-lea

... first novel featuring DI Nyree Bradshaw (BETTER LEFT DEAD is now available), set in the upper north island region of New Zealand, with idyllic scenery, pockets of poverty, a strong, tight knit Māori community, and a lot of fractious relationships.

#CrimeFiction
#BookReview
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My review of One of Us Is Missing by B.M. Carroll was published this morning at Newtown Review of Books:

https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/bm-carroll-one-of-us-is-missing-reviewed-by-karen-chisholm/

... one family’s celebration turns to disaster as a teenager disappears amid a crowd of concert-goers.

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#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)

Terry Pratchett
Connie Willis
Dorothy Dunnett
Gavin Lyall
Rachel Neuemeier
Lois McMaster Bujold
John le Carre
Isaac Asimov
Sulari Gentill
Josh Lanyon

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kcfromaustcrime,
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@CaraBruar

Bit of crossover between us :)

Terry Pratchett
Garry Disher
Sulari Gentill
John le Carre
Caimh McDonnell (because recently)
Georges Simenon
Paul Cleave
Maj Sjowall (with Per Wahloo)
Christopher Brookmyre
Stuart MacBride

(needless to say - 100authors5booksEach might not be too much of a stretch...)

#10authors5booksEach

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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

Interesting - do you have a feeling for why they have dropped out of favour?

I know I've been finding my reread of the Maigret series patchy going - some of them are brilliant / some of them decidedly dodgy when read with current sensibilities, but overall the good is still outweighing the bad ... just :)

kcfromaustcrime,
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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

Oh that's interesting. Hadn't considered that angle!

kcfromaustcrime,
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@CaraBruar @bookstodon

My partner is a big SF reader and has bemoaned exactly the same thing.

kcfromaustcrime,
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@fkaOctaviaKeats @CaraBruar @bookstodon

Thanks will pass that on.

kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Another not much happened update from last week on AustCrime. In my defence, a lot of books are being read, which isn't leaving a lot of time for much else.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-26th-april

#CrimeFiction
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kcfromaustcrime, to TeslaMotors
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Musings on a most unexpected and extremely welcome side effect of switching to an EV.

https://snakegullyfarm.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-unexpected-benefits-of-driving-ev.html

Carsick dogs. A thing of the past.

#ev

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Another weekly update on AustCrime - up to the 19th April this time.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/blog/updates-week-ending-19th-april

Some reviews, some new books, some books read, some queued up.

#CrimeFiction
#books
#auscrime
#yeahnoir

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kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Couple of bookclub gatherings ago, we read Devotion by Hannah Kent. Amazing experience.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/435971/review#reviews

Everything in this story is leading somewhere amazing. It's emotional, beautiful, touching, surprising and so incredibly moving. Sniffed, snuffled and out and out cried my way through the last part of this book.

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@miki_lou

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Everything you say is spot on. Such a wonderful book.

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