QBD Book Club: The Podcast

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 fo...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Jackie French to talk about her new book “The Sea Captain’s Wife”. About the story: When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's obsessed by a 'ghost ship...

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 not...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Kylie Orr to talk about her brand-new book “The Eleventh Floor”. Sleep deprived, struggling and at breaking point, first-time mum Gracie Michaels books one night - alone - at The Maxwell Hotel. When she wakes in a room she doesn't recognise, she sees something she wishes she didn't. Being drawn into a crime was not somethin...

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...

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 marri...

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 tel...

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 begin...

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 a...

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 perfe...

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...

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...

Episode 1: “The Strip” by Iain Ryan In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew chats to Iain Ryan about his brand-new title “The Strip” – QBD’s January Fiction Book of the Month. Based on real-life events, this enthralling story follows Detective Constable Lana Cohen. When a local doctor is brutally murdered, she joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Pip Drysdale to talk about her fantastic title “The Next Girl.”  In this enthralling story, the only way to protect the next girl is to become the next girl. And well, that could be a little risky… even deadly.  To order “The Next Girl”, you can visit us in-store or online here: https://bit.ly/3HQ07uj   Follow along with QBD Books he...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Jack Heath to discuss his brand-new book “Kill Your Husband”.   A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect for fans of Benjamin Stevenson. To order “Kill Your Husband”, you can visit us in-store or online here: https://www.qbd.com.au/kill-your-husbands/jack-heath/9781761067587/ F...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Bryan Brown to discuss his brand-new book “The Drowning”.  This story begins when the body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble… at least, that’s what it looks like. Three weeks before, Leila, a young backpacker, didn't turn up for her shift at the local cafe. Benny, t...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with internationally bestselling author Chris Hammer to discuss his brand-new book “The Seven”.  In this story, Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now-in startling circumstances-one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detective...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Benjamin Stevenson to discuss his highly anticipated follow-up “Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect”.  This time, get ready for a train journey… a dead body… and suspects who share one thing in common - how to get away with murder. To order “Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect”, you can visit us in-store or online here: https://bit.l...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer to discuss his brand-new book “Traitors Gate”.  This year, everything is about to change. Master criminal Miles Faulkner has set his heart on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history – and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favour. Unless Warwick and Hogan can stop...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Mick Herron to chat about his brand-new book “The Secret Hours”     Two years ago, the Monochrome inquiry was set up to investigate the British secret service. But with progress blocked at every turn, Monochrome is circling the drain ... Until the OTIS file appears out of nowhere. Spies and pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flye...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Patricia Wolf to chat about the gripping opening of her new crime series, “Outback”.  In this story, DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on the case. Their search becomes eve...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Roger Simpson to chat about his brand-new title “Resurrection.”   Jane Halifax is back, but she’s not quite herself… A near-fatal car accident has left Jane in a coma. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is. A young woman called Luna keeps luring Jane back to the present. Linked to a thirty-year cold case from Jane’s past, Luna h...

Episode 7: “The Bone Hacker” by Kathy Reichs   In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Kathy Reichs to talk about her brand-new title “The Bone Hacker”. Get ready… forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is back! This time, she follows a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos and enters a sinister labyrinth in which a new technology may wrea...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Gabriel Bergmoser to talk about his new release “The Caretaker”. Set in an isolated, empty ski resort in the off-season, this story centres a woman who doesn't want to be found, a man who may not be who he appears to be, and a game of cat and mouse - with deadly consequences. Soon, every escape route she has is being sealed, off...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Megan Goldin to talk about her brand-new title, “Dark Corners”.  In this story, Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though he's long been suspected of the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a young influencer with a hug...