Opening Sentence:Dressed in the street clothes they had given him – a shabby grey suit, it’s baggy pants supported by galluses; a rumpled white shirt, its collar too small to button; an old silk tie that dangled halfway down his… Read More ›
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Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice by Kevin Morgan
Opening Sentence:It is New Year’s Eve, 1921, the city of Melbourne, early morning. Synopsis:Gun Alley strips away the myths surrounding Australia’s infamous “schoolgirl murder” in the 1920s – not only exposing the travesty of justice that sent an innocent man… Read More ›
Never to be Released by Paul B. Kidd
Opening Sentence:This is a book about violent crime. Synopsis:’Never to be released‘. A rare recommendation reserved for the most vicious of killers. The mass murderers. The serial killers. The child murderers. Those who rape and kill in gangs. Killers like:… Read More ›
Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murders by Andrea Peyser
Opening Sentence:Alex, the little guy, always went first. Synopsis:MATERNAL INSTINCTS Susan Smith, a lovely young mother, separated from the father of her two handsome boys, is found wandering, delirious, on a South Carolina road, claiming that her car has been… Read More ›
Shadow Warrior by David Everett
Opening Sentence:The dog was a German shepherd, about two years old, big and woolly but still goofy like a pup. Synopsis:David Everett – renegade soldier, outlaw, fugitive and, at one time, Australia’s most wanted man – always liked a bit… Read More ›
House of Horrors by Nigel Cawthorne
Opening Sentence:In 1984, two weeks after the end of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a young woman in a small town in Austria was drugged, dragged into a cellar and repeatedly raped by her own father. Synopsis:In the quiet… Read More ›
The Good, the Bad and the Inevitable by Barbara Holborrow
Synopsis:In this moving and compelling collection of stories, bestselling author Barbara Holborrow tells of the good, the bad and the inevitable outcomes for so many of the kids she saw in her capacity as a children’s magistrate. There are stories… Read More ›
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 