In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Fiona Lowe to talk about her gripping and thought-provoking new book “Accident”. When a car veers off the road with devastating consequences, the small wheatbelt town of Garringarup is left reeling, but no one's worlds are more shattered than Hannah's and Freya's. As disturbing details surrounding the accident emerge and questions pile up, ugly secrets rise to the surface. Mystery, lies and scandal - it's soon obvious nothing is as it seems in this small town... To order “Accident”, you can visit QBD Books in-store or online he ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Kemper Donovan to talk about his brand-new book “The Busy Body”. In this story, our narrator is witty, nosy, and a professional weaver of lies - aka ghostwriter for the rich and famous - and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politicians tell-all memoir). This is a story even our ghostwriter wasn't expecting. And for once, it's all hers. To order “The Busy Body”, you can visit QBD Books in-store or online here: https://www.qbd.com.au/the-busy-body/kemper-donovan/9780733651632/ Follow along with QBD Books here: QBD Bo ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with M.J. Blake to talk about her highly anticipated new book “Anna O”. Anna Ogilvy hasn’t opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She’d committed the crime of the century – but nothing and no-one could wake her from the nightmare. Believers in her innocence call her Anna O. Believers in her guilt call her Sleeping Beauty. But no-one can take their eyes off the story… To order ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with our Dervla McTiernan to discuss our March Book of the Month, “What Happened To Nina”. In this story, Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. How far will Simon’s family go to keep him safe? How far will family go to get to the truth? If following the rules won’t get you anywhere, it’s time to break them. To order “What Happened To Nina?”, you can visit QBD Books in-store or ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Vikki Wakefield to talk about her compulsively readable psychological thriller “To The River”. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weirdermann has long suspected Sabine made her way back to the river-now, twelve years after the 'Caravan Murders', she has the time and the tenacity to co ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew reunites with Kerryn Mayne to talk about her brand-new title “Joy Moody Is Out of Time”. On her twin daughters' twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody - proprietor of Bayside's premier laundromat - is found dead. Yet that is not the strangest thing happening behind the bright pink facade of Joyful Suds. For much of their lives, Joy has been telling Cassie and Andie one big, fat lie- that they are from the future, and that when they turn 21, they will travel back to the year 2050. What started as a colourful tale to explain how the girls came to live ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with A.J. Finn to talk about his brand-new title “End of Story”. “I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story” – this is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed into his lavish San Francisco mansion, Nicky begins to unravel Trapp's life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plainspoken daughter. But Sebastian Trapp is a mystery himself. And maybe – probably – a murderer. To order “End of Story ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Fiona McIntosh to talk about her heart-stopping crime thriller “Foul Play”. In this explosive new blockbuster, superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn't participate in... except the ransom photo denies that. A media darling on and off the field, he has powerful charisma, a perfect home life he'll do anything to protect, and more money than he knows what to do with. He's determined to defy the extortion racket. This case has tentacles far more wide-reaching that ever imagined - an ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Hannah Richell to talk about her brand-new novel “The Search Party”. In this riveting story, five old friends reunite for an idyllic glamping trip on the Cornwall coast, but it turns into a waking nightmare when someone goes missing – and the facade of close friendship crumbles at the reveal of deadly secrets. “The Search Party” is a gripping, surprising destination thriller about the bonds of old friendship and the lengths parents will go to in order to protect their children. To order “The Search Party”, you can visit QBD Books ..read more

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew chats to Jo Dixon about her brand-new twisty mystery “A Shadow At The Door”. After a brutal attack and the breakdown of her marriage, life has taught former TV star Remi Lucan that it's safer to not rely on anyone. Instead, she's buried herself in Hobart, transforming her dilapidated sandstone house back to its former splendour. But when she runs out of money, her wealthy ex-husband tries to force the sale of the property and Remi realises her only option is to lower her defences and take in tenants. At first her biggest problem is adjusting to ..read more