The Last Thing I Remember - The Homelander Series #1 (Andrew Klavan)

The Last Thing I Remember - The Homelander Series #1

Andrew Klavan

Blurb: #01

All Charlie West usually has to worry about is getting good grades and not making a fool of himself in front of the prettiest girl in class. He's never been in trouble.

Until now.

Dazed and confused, Charlie wakes up strapped to a chair in a windowless cell. The last thing he remembers is falling asleep in his bedroom. Now he's aching all over, covered in blood, and, worse, someone behind the door has just ordered his death.

Charlie knows this is no nightmare: it is terrifyingly real. What he doesn't know is how he got here and, more importantly, how he's going to get out...

ISBN: 9780755352999 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Headline

Pages: 282 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Barnes and Noble

2. Goodreads page

3. Blog on the book

4. Review of the book

5. Author's official site

Underbelly #1 (John Silvester & Andrew Rule)

Underbelly #1

John Silvester & Andrew Rule

Blurb: He did lunch. Now he's doing time.

Drug dealer Attila Erdel walks from a restaurant after bragging he'd killed a man with his bare hands. He doesn't know his fellow diner is an undercover policeman. It's costing him 17 years inside to find out. As the straight world goes about its business, cops and criminals engage in a deadly battle of wits.

This is Australia's Underbelly.

ISBN: 9780980697117 (Paperback)

Year: 1997

Publisher: Sly Ink

Pages: 232 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the author

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Australian Crime page for the author

4. Article on the author

5. Article on the screen adaption of the series

Sprung! (Andrew Daddo, illustrated by Terry Denton)

Sprung!

Andrew Daddo, illustrated by Terry Denton

Blurb: Want to know:

-how to fake a Funniest Home Video?

-how NOT to road test your stack hat?

-what to do if you miss the bus for the school camp and the bats come to get you?

-AND how to keep your chocolate bar from melting all over the car?

Andrew Daddo's wicked collection of short stories will convince you that no matter how much trouble you've been in, you've never known what it's really like to be sprung!

AND REMEMBER: the only thing worse than getting sprung by your mates for being a suck is getting sprung for being a CHICKEN!

ISBN: 0733613888 (Paperback)

Year: 2001

Publisher: Mark Macleod Books

Pages: 181 (Fiction)

Links

1. Review of the book

2. Author's official site

3. Illustrator's official site

4. Buy the book from Collins Booksellers

5. Another review

The Coming of the Whirlpool - Ship Kings Book One (Andrew McGahan)

The Coming of the Whirlpool (Ship Kings Book One)

Andrew McGahan

Blurb: 'If you go to sea, you will come to the attention of the Ship Kings. And if they discover who you are, they will kill you.'

Young Dow Amber is no sailor. But driven by a strange sea-longing he ventures down to the great grim bay known as the Claw. He hopes to learn there of seafaring, but he finds only a fearful people who scarcely dare sail at all, for they have been cursed by a monstrous whirlpool that haunts the bay, stealing away their sons.

Then the rulers of all the world - the proud and cruel Ship Kings - arrive in the Claw. Dow is fascinated by their fine tall vessels, and even more so by a mysterious girl who lives aboard their flagship.

It is a perilous attraction to be sure, but could it be that his future somehow lives with the Ship Kings? Or will he be called upon to descend to his death, when the terrible whirlpool rises once more?

ISBN: 9781742376479 (Hardback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 289 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page

2. Goodreads page

3. Review of the book

4. SMH Article on the book

5. Buy from Readings

2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club #2) (James Patterson and Andrew Gross)

2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club #2)

James Patterson and Andrew Gross

Blurb: A CRAZED GUNMAN

I moved closer and knelt over the body. Tasha's blouse was soaked with blood, mixed with falling rain. Just a few feet away, a rainbow-hued knapsack still lay on the grass. Bullet holes were everywhere, splintered glass and wood. Dozens of kids had been streaming out onto the street... All those shots, and only one victim.

THE WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB IS BACK

The tragic end of the honeymoon murder case left Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco's only woman homicide detective, unsure if she could ever return to work. But when a little girl is shot outside a San Francisco church, she knows it's time to reconvene the Women's Murder Club.

Working with reporter Cindy Thomas, Assistant DA Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay starts to track a mystifying killer who quickly turns his pursuers into his victims.

ISBN: 9780755349272 (Paperback)

Year: 2002

Publisher: Headline

Pages: 401 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Review of the book

3. Author's official site

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Blog on the book