Kill the Messenger
Tami Hoag, Orion Books, RRP $29.95
From the award-winning author of Dark Horse, comes a spine-chilling
thriller that will have you leaving all the lights on.
Jace Damon
is a bike messenger, living in Los Angeles. He is tried, stressed
and single-handedly raising his younger brother. At the end of a long,
hard day battling LA traffic, and with a storm brewing overhead, he
is given one last pick-up - from the office of sleazy defence attorney,
Leonard Lowell.
Jace makes the collection and heads for the delivery address only
to find it’s a vacant lot. Then, to make matters worse, a car comes
out of nowhere and tries to run him down. Dropping the package, Jace
flees for his life.
He heads back to Lowell’s office to find Lowell dead, and the office
trashed. Not surprisingly, Jace is the prime suspect.
Forced to elude the police and the unknown men trying to kill him,
Jace must search for evidence to clear his name.
Who killed Leonard Lowell? And why?
With the author’s trademark pace, Kill the Messenger is a
blistering ride through LA as Jace tries to protect all he holds dear.
Winning the Weight War
Dr Gillian Moore-Groake and Teresa Nerney, Ibis Publishing, RRP $17.00
It is possible to lose
weight and keep it off for the rest of your life. That is the message
of this book, aimed at helping readers to understand why past attempts
at dieting have failed and showing them the tools required to succeed
now.
The authors, a consultant psychologist and a journalist, have combined
their professional skills and experience to write a book designed
to enhance the quality of life of its readers by helping them to achieve
and maintain a healthy weight.
A practical resource, Winning the Weight War addresses the
causes of weight problems and contains a seven-step plan, explaining
the tools to prepare mentally and emotionally to lose weight and improve
the quality of one’s own life.
The Reckoning
Patricia Tyrell, Orion Books, RRP $26.95
Les called my mother
that time from the only public telephone of a one-horse New Mexico
township; I stuck my elbow in his ribs and told him he was acting
dam stupid - what’d he do if somebody else showed up and wanted to
use the phone, started pacing and overhead him? But Les snapped, ‘Shut
up, Cate,’ and he dialled.
Cate has been raised on the run by a homeless drifter, Les, who abducted
her from a campsite 13 years ago. Occasionally, Les has contacted
Cate’s mother, keeping her updated on her daughter’s progress. Now,
however, Cate has done something terrible and Les has belatedly realized
the moral consequences of his actions. He has decided that the time
has come for Cate to go home.
But how will Cate cope? She must learn to love a mother she cannot
remember and reject the only father figure she has. Can the cynical,
ill-educated teenager ever become what that three-year-old girl was
to her mother? And what has Cate done that is so terrible?
Eat: A Cooking Dictionary
Sarah Dawson, Ibis Publishing, RRP $18.00
Cookbooks. They’re always big on ideas and inspiration but sometimes
they can be a little lacking in practical information. Everyone, at
some stage, has read a list of ingredients for a recipe, frowned in
consternation and asked: “What’s that?” (At least, I have.)
In this book, Melbourne-based
author and enthusiastic cook, Sarah Dawson, takes a back-to-basics
approach at demystifying modern cooking terms and ingredients.
Eat: A Cooking Dictionary takes the hassle out of deciphering
ingredient names, techniques and processes, by providing clear explanations
of foreign or unfamiliar cooking terms.
Learn which is the pestle, which is the mortar - the proper name
of “bow-tie” pasta - and much, much more.
Eat includes definitions from acacia seed to zucchini. A must
for cooking buffs.
Nourish: Food For Your
Baby
Sophie Blackmore, Ibis Publishing, RRP $18.00
Food is an essential
part of life, not only for maintaining our health but providing a
social role in the family. When a baby arrives, nourishing meals take
on an even greater importance.
Nourish is a guide to the food requirements of your child,
from baby through to toddler. It provides information and recipes
on a selection of important ingredients, a guide based on the developmental
level of the baby.
It also includes tables, charts, tips and suggestions to help you
build confidence in the kitchen and explains how recipes can be adapted
to suit all members of the family, so you don’t need to cook separate
meals for everyone.
Arranged alphabetically and including a wide range of baby meals
and how to prepare and store them, Nourish takes the guesswork
out of planning foods that are suitable for your baby.
Nurture: Caring For Your
New Baby
Debra Choate & Kim Choate, Ibis Publishing, RRP $18.00
Parenting skills are
learnt “on-the-job”. There is no such thing as a parenting apprenticeship.
This book is designed to help you with all the day-to-day needs of
being a new parent.
The companion book to Nourish, Nurture is an easy-to-read
guide on how to do everything for your baby - from feeding to interpreting
your child’s cry. There is even a section advising you on how to register
the birth.
This book provides information on what can be expected when you first
bring your baby home, and, far from focussing solely on the baby’s
needs, also gives important advice on looking after your own health
as a new parent.
Supplying anything from handy hints, to useful phone numbers and
website addresses, Nurture is a practical resource to help
keep things simple.
Australian Football: A
Quarterly Journal of Essays, Ideas, Commentary & Illustration
Various, Geoff Slattery Publishing, RRP $19.95
Australian Football
is a new quarterly journal, released to coincide with a new Australian
Art Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. This is the first
quarterly publication of analysis and debate on our national code.
The first edition, The Spirit of Football, features the artwork
and profiles of the various artists in the exhibitions combined with
essays, commentaries and images of Australian football, including,
among many others:
- Tom Wills, the original spirit, by Martin Flanagan - Several
groups claim responsibility for creating Australian Football. Martin
Flanagan describes the genesis of a sport that was created by Australians,
for Australians.
- Inside the Frame, by Geoff Slattery - Jock McHale, whose
name has been given to the AFL premiership coach’s medal, is a somewhat
mysterious figure in the annals of football. In this article, Geoff
Slattery attempts to dispel the mist surrounding the man who dominated
the Collingwood Football Club.
A real treat for those who live and breathe football.
Crime Scene to Court:
The Essentials of Forensic Science
Various, Royal Society of Chemistry
Drawing on the experience of recognized experts in the field, this
book covers the three main areas of an investigation in which forensic
science is practised: the scene, the laboratory and the court. Crime
Scene to Court provides non-technical explanations of how crime-scene
and forensic examinations are conducted in the United Kingdom and
explores the role of the expert witness.
Using actual case examples,
this book illustrates why and how examinations are performed and reports
on the latest methods and techniques used in crime-scene investigation.
This, the second edition, also includes the latest developments in
DNA testing, computer-based crimes and bloodstain-pattern analysis.
Each chapter contains a bibliography for those who wish to learn more.
Intended primarily as a resource for those studying the law or forensic
science, this book is ideal as a teaching or training tool. More than
that, anyone involved in investigation will find it an excellent information
source.
Special book offer
For your chance to win a copy of one of the following books, put
your name, location and despatch number on the back of an envelope,
along with the title of your choice and send it to Book Competition,
Police Association of SA, Despatch 168:
- Nourish: Food For Your Baby and Nurture: Caring For You New Baby
- Winning the Weight War
- The Reckoning
- Secrets of the Code
- Crime Scene to Court
