Fiona Hardy
Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Doncaster and Readings Carlton. She is also the author of books for children including How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days and How to Tackle Your Dreams. She is the former crime fiction columnist for Readings Monthly.
Review — 25 Feb 2014
Morning Phase by Beck
Late one warm Wednesday in February, sitting in the gathering dark with a tart glass of wine, I listened to Beck’s Sea Change in anticipation of its new companion album…
Review — 26 Feb 2014
Beams Falling by P.M. Newton
If you’ve ever entertained the thought that years of reading crime fiction have given you enough insider knowledge to become a blisteringly incredible police officer, this is the book to…
Review — 29 Jan 2014
Deserving Death by Katherine Howell
On a springtime morning in Sydney, two paramedics get a call: to attend to a collapsed woman in Sydenham. The paramedics recognise the address, and when they arrive their worst…
Blog post — 21 Nov 2013
Fiona Hardy on Crime Book Covers
Crime-lover and blogger
Let’s play a game. We’ll call it Crime Cover Bingo. If you have a crime book on your shelves that has one of the following on the…
Blog post — 28 Nov 2013
The Best Crime Fiction of 2013
Here are our top ten crime books of 2013, as chosen by our crime specialist Fiona Hardy. (Displayed in no particular order).
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
J.K. Rowling’s…
Review — 24 Oct 2013
Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill
It’s 1933 and the well-bred but occasionally low-brow Rowland Sinclair has just escaped torture in Germany, fled Paris, and is waiting in England for passage home to Australia. However, he…
Review — 24 Oct 2013
Banana Girl by Michele Lee
In the build-up to her departure for Laos – the homeland of her Hmong parents – Michele Lee wanders through Melbourne’s bars and streets, and the history of her life…
Review — 22 Sep 2013
Cross and Burn by Val McDermid
Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan’s Major Incident Team is in tatters: the people she counted as her closest associates – both professionally and publicly – are in new jobs, or…
Blog post — 11 Sep 2013
Fiona Hardy on the 2013 Ned Kelly Award
Our Crime Expert (in books, not IRL) Fiona Hardy gives us a round-up of the Ned Kelly Award Winners of 2013.
Gosh, it’s nice that the weekend had such a…
Review — 22 Sep 2013
Perfect North by Jenny Bond
During the warm summer of 1897, Sweden sent a hot air balloon to the Arctic with the aim of being the first country to reach the North Pole. By the…