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WHEN SHE WAS<br />
GOOD<br />
Michael Robotham<br />
Paperback RRP $32.99<br />
Six years ago, Evie<br />
Cormac was found hiding<br />
in a secret room in the<br />
aftermath of a brutal<br />
murder. But nobody has<br />
ever discovered her real<br />
name or where she came<br />
from, because everybody<br />
who tries ends up dead. Ignoring her warnings,<br />
Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven begins to dig<br />
into her past, only to disturb a hornet's nest.<br />
From Australia's foremost crime writer, Michael<br />
Robotham, this is the second explosive novel<br />
featuring gifted criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven<br />
following the Edgar Award nominated Good Girl,<br />
Bad Girl.<br />
THRILLING READS<br />
THE HUNTED<br />
Gabriel Bergmoser<br />
Paperback RRP $29.99<br />
Set on a lonely highway,<br />
deep in the Australian<br />
badlands, a wounded<br />
woman arrives at a<br />
deserted roadhouse.<br />
The Hunted is whiteknuckle<br />
suspense<br />
matched to the fast-paced<br />
adrenaline of a Jack<br />
Reacher novel and the creeping menace of Wake<br />
in Fright. Ferociously fast-paced, filmic,<br />
visceral, tense and utterly electric.<br />
THE GIRL IN THE<br />
MIRROR<br />
Rose Carlyle<br />
Paperback RRP $29.99<br />
Written with the chilling<br />
suspense of The Girl on<br />
the Train and Before I Go<br />
to Sleep, The Girl in the<br />
Mirror is an addictive thriller<br />
about greed, lust, secrets<br />
and deadly lies. An edgeof-your-seat<br />
debut with<br />
identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of<br />
secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody!<br />
THE NIGHT WHISTLER<br />
Greg Woodland<br />
Paperback RRP $32.99<br />
Nostalgic yet clear-eyed,<br />
simmering with smalltown<br />
menace, The Night<br />
Whistler populates the rural<br />
Australia of the 1960s with<br />
memorable characters and<br />
almost unbearable tension.<br />
'A haunting, tense and<br />
unforgettable debut.'<br />
- Christian White<br />
GLIMPSES<br />
OF UTOPIA<br />
Jess Scully<br />
Paperback<br />
RRP $32.99<br />
It's hard to be excited about the future right<br />
now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality<br />
is growing; politics is polarised; institutions<br />
designed to protect us are strained; technology is<br />
disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade<br />
the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully<br />
asks, What can we do?<br />
Glimpses of Utopia is a call for optimism.<br />
Humans everywhere are rising up to confront<br />
our challenges with creativity, resilience and<br />
compassion. Harnessing technology and<br />
imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair<br />
and sustainable. This book shows us how.<br />
FINAL CUT<br />
S. J. Watson<br />
Paperback RRP $32.99<br />
Blackwood Bay. An ordinary<br />
place, home to ordinary<br />
people. It used to be a<br />
buzzing seaside destination.<br />
Now, ravaged by the effects<br />
of dwindling tourism and<br />
economic downturn, it's<br />
a ghost town—and the<br />
perfect place for filmmaker<br />
Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the<br />
community is deeply suspicious of her intentions.<br />
After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood<br />
Bay—or does it?<br />
NON-FICTION<br />
THE CARBON CLUB<br />
Marian Wilkinson<br />
Paperback RRP $32.99<br />
September release,<br />
advance orders welcome<br />
The inside story of how<br />
a network of influential<br />
climate sceptics, politicians<br />
and business leaders<br />
fought to control Australia's<br />
response to the climate<br />
crisis. One of Australia's<br />
most respected investigative journalists, Marian<br />
Wilkinson has tracked the rise and rise of Australia's<br />
carbon club in brilliant detail. The result is a book<br />
that is both essential and disturbing reading.<br />
PLAY BY THE RULES<br />
Michael Pembroke<br />
Paperback RRP $24.99<br />
Play by the Rules offers a<br />
fresh take on the USA's<br />
vast influence and asks<br />
whether it is still a force for<br />
good.<br />
At one time the authority<br />
of the United States was<br />
unrivalled. But now the<br />
world has now entered a<br />
post-American era – defined by the rise of Asia and<br />
the return of China, as much as by the decline of<br />
the United States.<br />
THE KINGDOM<br />
Jo Nesbo<br />
Paperback RRP $32.99<br />
September release,<br />
advance orders welcome<br />
In the far north of Norway<br />
a man lives a peaceful<br />
existence. However one<br />
day his younger brother,<br />
always the more successful<br />
and charming of the two,<br />
turns up to visit. He's<br />
accompanied by his new wife. A bond develops<br />
between the woman and her host, with violent<br />
consequences. It turns out that the little brother is<br />
not quite as angelic as he seems.<br />
HOW TO SELL<br />
A MASSACRE<br />
Peter Charley<br />
Paperback RRP $34.99<br />
Set during Trump's rise to<br />
power and the US's worst<br />
mass shootings, How to<br />
Sell a Massacre reads like<br />
a spy thriller but with a<br />
deadly truth at its heart:<br />
that an Australian political<br />
party would seek foreign<br />
money in a bid to dismantle the gun laws<br />
that keep Australians safe.<br />
THE CASE OF<br />
GEO<strong>RG</strong>E PELL<br />
Melissa Davey<br />
Paperback RRP $35.00<br />
Melissa Davey covered<br />
Cardinal George Pell's<br />
evidence at the royal<br />
commission into child<br />
sexual abuses, and<br />
attended each of his trials.<br />
This isn't just a book about<br />
one alleged offender, and<br />
one complainant though, it is about how the sexual<br />
abuse of children occurs — and has been allowed<br />
to continue.<br />
6 Australian Independent Bookseller <strong>Spring</strong> Reading Guide
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