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Let me get this right - Albo (for all his myriad of other faults), made an ick of himself misspeaking on a podcast.

One of the vocal critics of that is Barnaby Joyce who was sleeping with a younger staffer whilst still married.

Hypocrisy means something different in RWNJ circles.

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It's Friday so my weekly #AmReading post is live:

www.austcrimefiction.org/posts/friday...

and the last fortnight as always:

www.austcrimefiction.org/last-fortnig...

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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (17th July)

#JustFinished Happy Woman by Abby Corson Dirty! by Taliyah Stone (snuck this one in because .. well I forgot it was here which was very annoying because I'd been looking forward to it!) #CurrentlyR...

Friday's #CurrentlyReading:

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And the last fortnight on AustCrimeFiction:

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Lots of upcoming releases included there.

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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (10th July)

#JustFinished Stay Buried, Jane R. Miles Against Their Will by Karina Kilmore #CurrentlyReading Happy Woman by Abby Corson

This little bundle of gorgeous arrived yesterday. She's got some adjusting to do because the terriers are being terriers, so we're taking it slowly.

Meet Phryne

A stray who was rescued with a litter of kittens, she's possibly a couple of years old. Very cuddly and purry, very discombobulated.

My #review of the excellent #YeahNoir novel Hooked Up by Fiona Sussman:

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... what works with all of Sussman's novels is interactions, dialogue, sensitivities, failings, successes & general being humanness that she has nailed in every story ...

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Hooked Up, Fiona Sussman

Given the blurb starts out with the line: The unforgettable detective duo from 'The Doctor’s Wife' are back, and this time the stakes are even higher.  It's worth starting this review out mention...

Today's #Review is of Against Their Will by Karina Kilmore

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/again...

Confronting subject matter, mitigated by some really strong female characterisations in a plot that absolutely gallops along

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Against Their Will, Karina Kilmore

AGAINST THEIR WILL opens with a bang, and keeps up the pace, tension and jeopardy right to the very last page. Centred around Danny Boyd, a journalist who had been recruited to work for "The Open", a ...

Very relieved to report finally there's been some traction on the reading lists:

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and as always - the last fortnight's activities

tinyl.io/BoNl

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Friday Update: The Reading Queue (3rd July)

#JustFinished The Corrector, Kim Hunt (2026 Ngaio's) Stay Buried by Jane R. Miles

Today's #review is 2nd in the Bloodline Series - Dirty! by Taliyah Stone, a novella that's chilling:

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/dirty...

DIRTY! is a short sharp, and very clear-eyed foray into manipulation and extreme antisocial tendencies ...

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Dirty!, Taliyah Stone

DIRTY! is the second novella in the Bloodline series, BANG! being the opening salvo. It's a series that might not have to be read in order, but would certainly benefit from doing so - the central char...

Today's Thursday Temptations Post:

www.austcrimefiction.org/posts/thursd...

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Thursday Temptations

This temptations is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.

Today's #review is the Japanese thriller Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/siste...

Slow moving and extremely intense

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Sisters in Yellow, Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami's earlier novel, HEAVEN, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and she is renowned for her portrayal of characters on the margins of society. Outsiders, as this reader oft...

This morning our ginger idiot slid down some laser light roofing onto the top of the cool room and just sat up there meowing until we worked out a way to get him down. Was he grateful... Nope not even slightly

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social

You bastard! We were only trying to help!

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Today's #review is Stay Buried by Jane R. Miles

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"Compelling, gripping, claustrophobic, and creepy as hell, STAY BURIED was a roller coaster of emotion from start to finish."

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Don't get me wrong, this sort of drivel needs refuting but seriously can't we just start with "you said WHAT? How did you actually manage to get out your front door this morning...". Or similar

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Politician’s claim Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if NT doesn’t use more groundwater criticised by experts

NT minister for trade and business Robyn Cahill makes scientifically inaccurate claims while pushing to make territory ‘datacentre capital of the globe’

Today's review is TEA AND CAKE AND DEATH - 2nd in The Bookshop Detectives series:

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/tea-a...

...one for fans of cosy, and the sort of humour that comes with a slight sense of self-aware, celebratory dottiness

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The Bookshop Detectives: Tea and Cake and Death, Gareth Ward & Louise Ward

The second novel in the cosy, chatty BOOKSHOP DETECTIVES series, TEA AND CAKE AND DEATH sees intrepid bookshop owners Garth and Eloise sniffing out a prolific poisoner ahead of a fundraising event - t...

Today's #review is Happy Woman by Abby Corson:

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/happy...

What would you do if your father suddenly confessed to being a serial killer ....

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Happy Woman, Abby Corson

Abby Corson's debut novel THE CONCIERGE was an unusual, and really good, crime fiction outing, that quite possibly came with a bit of insider information, given the author's background in luxury trave...

"How did we fail? What could we have done to prevent this?" A line from a recent book I read and something I can't get out of my head, in particular, since the news of the death of Layla Jeffrey in Donald. We're failing these women and girls. All of us.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Layla Jeffery, 13, was ‘somewhat shy’ and ‘well-liked’. A Victorian town is struggling with her alleged murder

Donald – a small community about 280km from Melbourne – is grieving after a missing teenager was found dead

Apparently the inimitable, fabulous, dryly wryly funny Barry Dickins died yesterday.

This is not a good week for thoroughly decent, whimsical people.

Can't think of a better person to note his passing than Dave Graney.

Not Sam Neill - oh no.

My #review of What Rhymes with Murder by Penny Tangey:

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/what-...

Written for a very particular audience this is a cosy featuring a new mum and her baby.

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What Rhymes With Murder?, Penny Tangey

Featuring new mother Frida, WHAT RHYMES WITH MURDER? is a cosy, baby focused story about a body in a library, with a bit of social commentary along the way.

Today's review:

www.austcrimefiction.org/review/high-...

Fast, furious, ferocious, dark, gritty, violent, crazy with just a hint of fun.

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High Rise, Gabriel Bergmoser

I tend not to read blurbs on books before I dive in, particularly if the book is by a favourite author who does dark, dirty and high adrenaline as well as Bergmoser does. So I was somewhat pleased to ...

When cleaning out my cousin's stuff a while ago I found my great aunt's glass citrus juicer. It's absolutely brilliant to use, has to be over 60 years old because I remember it from my childhood. Now used daily here

NAIDOC week and a couple of purchases supply nation certified Native Craft gin from Dharawal which is really nice and a couple of books from ANTAR. Looking forward to Snake Talk, having loved Sand Talk

It's been cold and foggy this morning, but it's a very rare thing indeed to see all four of them together like this. Must be colder than we thought or the sound of the new cat playing (aka destroying) stuff in the other end of the house is making them wonder what the hell is going on.

Had to evict some spiders from the gumboots this morning. Forecast said chance of 20mls, we've had 60 and it's still gently raining.