Justin Walsh
@juswal.bsky.social
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Crime and spy fiction fan in 🇦🇺. I’m interested in 🇫🇯 🇫🇮 🇱🇻 🇮🇸 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 and sometimes 🇺🇸.
I just got the washing out of the oven, I mean off the clothesline. It’s 35 out there, at 7:00 p.m.
4 days ago
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Make a Bond movie casual: Diet Another Day
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14 days ago
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Rock and a Hard Place
23 days ago
OUT NOW! Another year's worth of hard-hitting short fiction from some of the best crime writers around. Welcome to Stone's Throw 2025. Get your copy today:
bit.ly/4jaRnjw
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Here’s the stupidest article I’ve ever read about acting.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?
In Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Timothy Spall, 68, plays the father of Toni Collette, who is 53 – and pregnant. But those liberties are nothing compared with North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candida...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/17/hollywood-love-of-oddball-age-gaps-kate-winslet-goodbye-june-timothy-spall
24 days ago
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‘Just a spoonful of death helps life go down.’
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29 days ago
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Jeff Popple
about 1 month ago
My picks for the best crime of 2025 including:
@michaelconnelly.bsky.social
@deonmeyer.bsky.social
@michaelrobotham.bsky.social
@adrianmckinty.bsky.social
@paulvidich.bsky.social
@fionathehardy.bsky.social
@anthonyhorowitz.com
@mbrisso.bsky.social
murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/the-years-be...
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THE YEAR’S BEST: MY FAVOURITE CRIME NOVELS AND THRILLERS OF 2025
Coming up with the Best Books of the Year is always a challenging task. The idea of ranking and rating books never really sits right with me, as so much comes down to individual taste and even the …
https://murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/the-years-best-my-favourite-crime-novels-and-thrillers-of-2025/
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
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about 1 month ago
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This is a good interview.
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about 2 months ago
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Wordle 200! (Achieved with an uncomfortable 6.)
about 2 months ago
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If the Wallabies had a better defence plan and could catch a kick, they would be a chance here. I doubt they can do it on guts alone.
#irevaus
about 2 months ago
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Jeff Popple
2 months ago
This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three good, end of year crime novels by the Queen of Cold Case Crime
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
& Australian authors Alan Carter and Matthew Reilly. Good books and great potential Xmas presents
murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/canberra-wee...
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CANBERRA WEEKLY 6 NOVEMBER 2025: NEW CRIME BY VAL McDERMID, ALAN CARTER and MATTHEW REILLY
This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very different new thrillers about new and old crimes. Silent Bones by Val McDermid (Little, Brown, 23 October 2025) First up is Silent Bones, (Lit…
https://murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/canberra-weekly-6-november-2025-new-crime-by-val-mcdermid-alan-carter-and-matthew-reilly/
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Tom Gauld
2 months ago
A halloween books cartoon for
@theguardian.com
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Bill Janovitz
3 months ago
I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post:
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I Guess There’s Just a Meanness in This World
Nebraska, Highway Patrolman, and the Tenor of the Times
https://open.substack.com/pub/billjanovitz/p/i-guess-theres-just-a-meanness-in?r=4we2f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Atlantic Crime
3 months ago
An extra special pub day because we also have two new Len Deighton spy thrillers out, HORSE UNDER WATER and TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE SPY!👀
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Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.
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3 months ago
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Jeff Popple
3 months ago
2 months to Xmas and here the 10 best crime titles coming our way
@michaelconnelly.bsky.social
Lee & Andrew Child, Jack Heath
@peterjamesauthor.bsky.social
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Jo Dixon, Matthew Reilly
@vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social
@harlancoben.bsky.social
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FORECAST FRIDAY: THE BEST NEW RELEASES OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2025
With just over two months to Christmas, the annual flood of new thriller and crime books is picking up momentum, with some great titles scheduled for release in the next few weeks. I have looked ov…
https://murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/forecast-friday-the-best-new-releases-october-december-2025/
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They flew Will Skelton back from France for this match and he played 14 minutes.
#ausvnzl
3 months ago
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All right. It’s time for the last
#Wallabies
home test match in 2025.
#ausvnzl
3 months ago
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Wordle 150 streak achieved 🎉
3 months ago
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Nice Pan cover
@sulli864.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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After next week’s test in Perth, there is no higher priority for the
#Wallabies
and Australian rugby than rounding up every pro contracted player who wears 9 to 15 and putting them through a two-week punt kicking clinic.
#nzlvaus
#bledisloecup
#itsnotthathard
#itscalledfootballyaknow
4 months ago
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I wanted to not mention Piardi (or Jonker) this afternoon but those successive penalties against Wilson (maul) and Hooper (jackle) were just the ref’s gifts to NZ. Three points for free. This stuff leaves the Wallabies unable to risk competing for the ball.
#nzlvaus
#bledisloecup
4 months ago
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Who slips a better pass than Len Ikitau? Nobody. Try after try comes from his beautiful short pass to the left.
#NZLvAUS
#BledisloeCup
4 months ago
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I’m geared up for Wallabies vs NZ. Anything could happen.
#nzlvaus
#bledisloecup
4 months ago
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I haven’t heard of this novel or the author. Am intrigued.
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4 months ago
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Towards the finish line, mate.
4 months ago
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I remember seeing this wanker on TV after the trial and thinking he was way out of line with his commentary. Nobody wants a public health system doctor playing up for media attention.
#erinpatterson
#mushroommurders
#medicalethics
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Doctor who called Erin Patterson ‘crazy bitch’ after treating her penalised for speaking about case
Health regulator places conditions on Dr Christopher Webster’s registration over comments made after mushroom lunch murder trial
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/19/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-australian-doctor-called-crazy-bitch-after-treating-her-penalised-for-speaking-about-case-ntwnfb
4 months ago
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Would you like your own 1960s astronomy station with a giant cross telescope?
#hoskinstown
www.realestate.com.au/property-hou...
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https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-hoskinstown-148894584
4 months ago
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Here’s a wild and dark crime scenario: start a sham whale welfare operation, obtain a veterinary euthanasia drug (in whale-sized doses?), sell it to suicidal humans.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Up to 20 deaths linked to ‘end of life’ business that sourced veterinary drug through fake whale charity, police allege
Police allege Gold Coast business owner used charity to secure euthanasia drugs as 53-year-old charged with aiding suicide and trafficking dangerous drugs
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/15/police-investigating-deaths-linked-to-end-of-life-business-gold-coast-veterinary-drug-found-mans-body-ntwnfb
4 months ago
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27% primary for the bad guys and 12% for the worse guys. Australia’s tectonic plates are grating.
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4 months ago
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My thoughts after two
#ausvarg
matches. Wallabies’ weakness is the kick-chase. They make no metres on the box kicks, then win no possession. Argentina’s weakness is their inability to score tries through an organised attack. They can’t hold possession and apply pressure.
4 months ago
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Argentina’s discipline now falling apart. Will they panic again?
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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The Wallabies are getting outplayed. They can’t get any field position and can’t keep possession. Argentina can’t score tries, but they don’t need to.
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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Hunter Paisami is looking very Ikitau-like in attack and defence – which is great to see.
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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I hope Edmed’s afternoon improves.
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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Joseph Suaalii is very hard to stop from 10 metres out and he doesn’t always need a pass from Len Ikitau. But that kick by Tane Edmed was an embarrassment.
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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The Wallabies-Argentina rugby Test match broadcast starts with Stan’s Sean Maloney saying last week’s result came in “injury time”; the ground announcer asks the crowd to “be upstanding” for the anthems, and calls ours “Advanced Australia Fair”. OK, enough negativity – time for rugby.
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. Are you still aware? Guess that you don't care about it now.
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4 months ago
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This
#snipetember
thing has gone up a notch.
4 months ago
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There’s a new Cosmic Psychos video. Might be their worst song ever, but it’s good enough.
#cosmicpsychos
youtu.be/ku0HKJDmgFQ
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Cosmic Psychos - I Like Beer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Cosmic Psychos
https://youtu.be/ku0HKJDmgFQ?si=EPaDUNCV2RagOH9e
4 months ago
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One for the Australians – though it’s from a TV series, not a movie. ‘Sweet and Sour’ was a show about an indie band who record and release a single. Released in the real world, the single hit no. 13 on the national chart and the soundtrack album was no. 4.
youtu.be/DZElbix-nf4
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4 months ago
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Grant Watson
4 months ago
This is absolutely the title I would give a parody of Dan Brown. This must be the Danbrowniest of Dan Brown novels.
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Slightly diminish a book: One Hundred Minutes of Solitude
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4 months ago
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Exploding Helicopter
4 months ago
Watched CAUGHT STEALING (2025) a perfect example of Chekhov's seatbelt.
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Addendum to item 1): especially for authors talking or writing about their own stories. When I read something like ‘I decided to have some fun with the genre by subverting the tropes,’ I reach for my 🔫. Just write your story in the shape that works.
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4 months ago
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Recommended reading. A great portrait of human complexity, achievement and collapse.
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4 months ago
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The
#Springboks
have glaring faults that can’t be fixed quickly. They just don’t look like a dominant champion team now.
#nzlvrsa
4 months ago
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Tuning in for the Australia vs Argentina rugby Test match in Townsville. Go Wallabies!
#ausvarg
4 months ago
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You start the day as an answer in the NY Times crossword and end it in the obits.
#armani
4 months ago
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Ever noticed the resemblance?
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4 months ago
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