THE GROOVE BOOK REPORT

This is the third collab between the former President and one of the most successful thriller writers in the modern era.  It follows popular titles 'The President is Missing' and 'The President's Daughter'. It does make me wonder what kind of novel other former Presidents would involve themselves with, and which writers might step up.  Present company in Washington most likely excluded.   In today's political landscape it would be hard to write true fiction about occupants of the White House.  Clinton, no doubt has been drawing on his own experience as a candidate for impeachment and his insider knowledge of what the Bidens must have been going through as Hunter Biden was dragged through the political mud and the courts just prior to the last election. It would be easy to write a story about a charismatic, yet corrupt president getting his come uppance down the line.  However, most would agreed that chapter will quite possibly write itself in due course....

The first book a clean, cozy crime mystery series. Think 'Gilmore Girls' meets 'Nancy Drew', with a few household pets, dysfunctional family life, lashings of humour, and a nod to the power of caring. Nicolette Briggs doesn’t 'do' humans. She loves animals, cats, dogs, anything on four legs.  As Pōneke's premier, and likely only, animal PI she spends her days investigating missing pets and situations of animal abuse and cruelty.   On her books is the case is a cat who's been poisoned cat, but luckily hasn't used up all their lives yet.  Initially, it's about the cat but then human bodies start appearing, too.  And before too long she's in the middle of a double murder investigation.  Nicolette's overbearing detective brother tries to keep her out of the case but then there's a break in and one of her much-loved dogs becomes injured in suspicious circumstances.  So, she has to dive in to the case and try to solve it.  Add more crazines...

Speak your truth. Or at least the truth you want others to believe.  Quirky cosy-coastal crime from a former criminal lawyer. Handywoman Barb Young has lived in the sleepy coastal town of Bullford Point for over fifty years - and frankly, in that time, not much has happened, unless you count that business where a bush turkey managed to board the ferry a couple of years ago. When Joe Griffiths returns from Sydney after six years of drug addiction, jail and, eventually, rehab, Barb offers him a job, hoping to help him turn his life around. However, when another new resident of Bullford Point is murdered, Joe becomes the prime suspect. Barb thinks the police have got it wrong, but the more she tries to find the truth and clear Joe's name, the more confusing things become. Is the murder connected to the developers circling the waterfront home Joe inherited from his parents? Or to the true crime podcast he has been making about the death of his ex-girlfriend, seven years previously? And...