New to me authors April- June 2012

Out of the 80 books I've read this year nearly 30 are new-to-me authors.

I reported on the first 16 at the end of March and chose two Australian authors as my best for the period:

5.0, A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN, Sulari Gentill
5.0, THE BROTHERHOOD, Y.A. Erskine

I didn't have any 5s this time but you can see form the list below that two came close.
I am going to point you again to two Australian authors.

Longlisted for Australia's 2012 Miles Franklin Award which is a literary award, on the face of it, THE PRECIPICE by Virginia Duigan is not a crime fiction novel, although by the end you realise that more than one crime has been committed, and there are certainly plenty of puzzles to solve. Read more about the book here.

What would you remember about her if your sister, who is ten years older than you, simply walked out one night and never came back? Would you know her if she reappeared twenty years later? Would you know if the person was an imposter? What if she didn't have any evidence of her old identity? What if she had changed her name? What questions should you ask?

And what if there was more at stake? What if you had to share your mother's estate with her?

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? by Wendy James is an excellent read.

And then finally, I'll direct you to THE HANGING SHED by Gordon Ferris

I liked this book in particular because of it's historical setting, the year that I was born. It is set in Scotland, I was born in Australia, I must hasten to point out. But we shared a bleak, almost poverty stricken, post-war world.

The book begins strongly with a description of Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow. Douglas Brodie is hurtling through the night to Glasgow on the Royal Scot. It is April 1946 and he has had a phone call from a friend he thought had died in the war. The friend is in desperate trouble, convicted of murdering a young boy, and scheduled for the hanging shed.