Book Review

Angie Cairncross reviews Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood, published by Hachette NZ Audio

Cynthia Morahan reviews Love Stories by Trent Dalton, published by HarperCollins. Cynthia says: This is a perfect book for people who hate small talk. It's poetic, with little definitions of love… Audio

Holly Walker reviews How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995-1998 by Helen Garner, published by Text Publishing Audio

Mary Fawcett of Schroedinger's Books in Petone reviews Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake. Second in the Skunk & Badger series for 7-11 year olds, published by Allen and Unwin. Audio

Jenna Todd from Time Out Bookstore reviews Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, published by Penguin Random House Audio

Anne Else reviews Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Craig Gamble, published by VUP Audio

Elisabeth Easther reviews Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters, published by Allen and Unwin Audio

Stella Chrysostomou of Volume Books in Nelson reviews The Employees: A workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, published by Lolli Editions Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith published by Harper Collins Audio

Louise O'Brien reviews The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, published by Hamish Hamilton. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, published by Headline Publishing Group. Audio

Briar Lawry from Unity Books Auckland reviews Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston, published by Orion Audio

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin reviews The Dark by Emma Haughton, published by Hachette Bronwyn says: "The Murder. The Suspects. The Isolation… Not so much a locked room as a… Audio

Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews People Like Them by Samira Sedira, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog books in Featherston reviews Melt by Ele Fountain, published by Allen and Unwin Audio

Jane Westaway reviews Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard, published by Harper Collins Audio

Anne Else reviews A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Night Village by Zoe Deleuil, published by Fremantle Press Audio