It Starts With Us Colleen Hoover, Simon & Schuster, $32.99 If No Plan B is any guide, fans needn’t fear the coming handover. This mission will take him across the country (with all the action-packed heroics you’d expect as the baddies send goons to stop him) into a climactic showdown even Reacher might be unprepared to face. He trails the killer, and soon finds a clue that leads him to uncover a conspiracy. Jack Reacher saw something different – a man in a hoodie pushing her and stealing her bag. It opens with what one eyewitness saw as a woman throwing herself in front of a bus. No Plan B is the third Jack Reacher novel Lee and Andrew Child have written together.

Have we hit peak Reacher? The world can’t seem to get enough of Lee Child’s action man – there’s even a TV series now – though Child himself announced in 2020 that he intends to handball the franchise to his younger brother Andrew, with a temporary co-authoring arrangement in the interim. No Plan B Lee & Andrew Child, Bantam, $32.99 The difficult lives, the resilience, and the rich traditions of the Murri are woven into a murder mystery that tackles water theft and institutional racism with an unflinching eye, and introduces the kind of scrappy, hard-boiled Aboriginal detective the genre has been crying out for. The trail exposes a dark web of corruption and neglect that’s causing the Darling – or the Barka, sacred to the Murri people – to dry up. She sets up her own private detective agency in a parched desert town on the Darling River, and when the cops shrug at the disappearance of an environmental activist, steps in to uncover the truth. In Madukka, Janson shifts gear into crime fiction, giving us Australian noir from a gritty and unvarnished First Nations perspective.Įlder Aunty June has completed an online TAFE certificate in investigative services. Madukka the River Serpent Julie Janson, UWA Publishing, $34.99ĭarug Burruberongal author Julie Janson is known for Benevolence (2020), composed in part as a literary response to Kate Grenville’s The Secret River.

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