1 September 2025

Michael Duffy's latest book published today!

It’s Booker shortlist month and I have three longlisted books I am going to try to read before the shortlist is announced on 23 September: Universality by Natasha Brown, Endling by Maria Reva, and Flesh by David Szalay. I’m hoping at least one of them makes the shortlist so I have one book to follow without starting again!

But for today, our more important news is that Michael Duffy’s latest book in the Bella Greaves series, Death in the Gardens, is published this morning. You can read my review for the book by clicking on the links in the titles for Death in the Gardens.

Michael Duffy is a local author (to us) and has contributed a major project to this site, Michael Duffy Interviews the Great Writers.

Michael’s latest book sees a murder take place in the beautiful gardens of Everglades in Leura, designed by Paul Sorenson in the 1930s. The house and gardens of Everglades are a place for artists and writers to work, a tourist attraction, and they also cater for live outdoor theatre, weddings and other functions. Now they have also hosted a murder!

There are links to other reviews of Michael’s books in this series at the end of the Death in the Gardens review. Simply click the book covers. And if you think the covers are beautiful and unusual for crime fiction, you might be interested to know that Michael’s wife, Alex, paints and designs all the covers.

You can find out more about Michael and his work – and you can even purchase his books – by visiting his site, authormichaelduffy.com.au.

If you are a Blue Mountains resident and would be interested to hear Michael speak (or will be in the Blue Mountains), Michael is speaking with local garden luminary Mary Moody at Everglades Gardens on 21 September. More information can be found by clicking here.

- bikerbuddy