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Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem
Rick Held Hachette, $29.99
Tholdi is a musical prodigy whose brilliant future is extinguished when the horror unfolding across Europe arrives at his door. One day he’s captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Lyuba whom he meets on his 16th birthday. The next day he wakes to the terrors of war as the Nazi-allied Romanians attack his town of Czernowitz.
A ghetto is built to imprison the town’s Jews before herding them onto trains bound for concentration camps. Tholdi and his parents await their turn. And, then, fate intervenes, giving them all a reprieve.
At the weaving mill, Tholdi secures work that spares him. He is elated – until he discovers the two brothers who run the mill are Nazi collaborators hiding a terrible secret.
When Tholdi sees one of the brothers with Lyuba, he glimpses a way to save himself and his family. Will Lyuba be the key to their survival, or will Tholdi’s infatuation with her become a dangerous obsession that guarantees their death?
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Truths I Never Told You Kelly Rimmer Hachette Australia, $29.99
1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth.
Instead, she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows husband Patrick will never look. When Grace falls pregnant again, she turns to her sister, Maryanne, for help.
1996: After her father, Patrick, is diagnosed with dementia, Beth and her siblings make the heartwrenching decision to put him into care.
As Beth is clearing the family home, she discovers a series of notes. Patrick’s children grew up believing their mother had died in a car accident, but these notes suggest something much darker.
Camino Winds John Grisham Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99
Bruce Cable, the proprietor of Bay Books, is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann when Hurricane Leo starts heading straight for Camino island, Florida.
The governor orders a mandatory evacuation, but Cable decides to stay and ride out the storm.
The hurricane levels homes and condos; hotels and storefronts are ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives.
An apparent victim, Nelson Kerr, is a friend of Cable and an author of thrillers. But his injuries suggest that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death. He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head.
The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case.
Cable begins to wonder if the shady characters in Kerr’s novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Kerr’s computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there – in black and white? The Familiar Dark Amy Engel Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99
“In other places, the murder of two little girls would have blanketed the entire town in horror. Here, it was just another bad day.”
Eve Taggert had steadily climbed away from her roots. Her mother, a cruel woman, had dragged her up in a rundown trailer park and was not who Eve wanted to be to her own daughter, Junie.
But 12-year-old Junie is now dead, found next to the body of her best friend in the park of their dirt-poor town deep in the Missouri Ozarks.
Eve is going to find out what happened to her daughter, even if it means using her mother’s cruel brand of strength to unearth secrets.
Everyone is a suspect, and someone will answer for Junie’s murder.
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Entertainment
Just Desserts Charlotte Ree Plum, $29.99
Instagram sensation Charlotte Ree is famous for her simple and delicious sweets. Her easy, user-friendly creations are designed to taste amazing, rather than just look pretty, although pretty they are.
Just Desserts showcases 30 of Charlotte’s most popular and delicious cake, biscuit, slice and dessert recipes in one little package.
It features essentials, such as chocolate brownies, shortbread caramel slice and chocolate-chip cookies through to showstoppers such as layered berry pavlova and chocolate ganache and blackberry bundt.
Seven Lies Elizabeth Kay Hachette, $32.99
Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were 11 years old. They have a lot in common. In their early 20s they fell in love with and married handsome young men.
But Jane never liked Marnie’s husband. He was always so loud and obnoxious, so much larger than life. Which, now, is rather ironic.
Because if Jane had been honest – if she hadn’t told those lies – then perhaps her best friend’s husband might still be alive.
This is Jane’s opportunity to tell the truth and, as she narrates their shared history and unpicks each of her seven lies, she reveals the pockets of darkness that have infiltrated their friendship and the toxic secrets still bubbling beneath.
It’s all about obsession, grief, the dark corners of even the closest friendships, and what it means to tell your version of the truth. Industrial From page 26
13.Take water with you. No matter how experienced you are, it is possible to suffer dry mouth, which can add to your stress under questioning. 14.Always take a Police Association representative or a support person with you (depending on the type of investigation). Most members who have thought they would be okay on their own but took a support person have invariably been glad they did. 15.If, as an interview unfolds, you feel stressed, or the need for further advice from the association, ask for a break. You are allowed to do this but be sure to inform the investigator that you are not refusing to answer his or her questions (if under direction). 16.The investigator cannot force you to swear an affidavit. If he or she asks you to swear or affirm a statement/ interview on affidavit, do not sign such a document until you seek advice from the association or legal representative assigned to you.
This list of pointers is a summary of matters to keep in mind during the interview/statement process.
This is not legal advice. This is general advice and does not substitute contacting the association for further advice or legal assistance.
One of the benefits of association membership entitles you to advice and potentially legal representation prior to attending one of these interviews.
Depending on the severity or complexity of the allegations it might be necessary to have legal representation present throughout the process.
This list of pointers, relevant to ICAC and IIS investigations, will continue in the next issue of the Police Journal.
Industrial From page 27
The organization and the community demand availability and a high level of proficiency, regardless of workload and training.
The Service Futures article outlines the best means of multi-skilling.
To make multiskilling a success, employees must feel that they are up-skilled, acquiring new competencies rather than have the feeling of just getting more and more work. Therefore, properly developed job designs, processes and future career plans must be in place before multiskilling can be a true success. In doing so, the multiskilled employees will be able to make sense of their work and see their jobs in a continuously developing long-term perspective.
The association awaits further consultation. Legal From page 35
In a case in which a worker has made a full recovery with no ongoing physical impairment, there is unlikely to be any lump-sum compensation payable for permanent impairment.
In some circumstances, the costs of these individual claims might be substantially less than the costs involved with running a dispute in the South Australian Employment Tribunal.
Would it not make more sense to acknowledge the danger to which many workers are presently exposed and spend the money on helping infected workers recover from COVID-19 by reversing the burden of proof?
Presently, in order to be compensated for your time off work and your incurred medical expenses if you contract COVID-19, you have to establish that (a), it arose out of or in the course of your employment, and (b), your employment was a significant contributing cause of you contracting the disease.
Each case will turn on its own facts and ultimately boil down to whether you can pinpoint how or from whom you contracted the condition, and whether that was in the course of your employment and, then, whether there is a sufficient connection between your employment and COVID-19 diagnosis to conclude that employment was a significant contributing cause.
Let’s hope there is no need to engage with SAPOL Injury Management Section about whether a COVID-19 injury claim should be accepted.
Throughout July, Wilson Parking will
offer members daily parking at six city car parks for only $7.
Go to the Members Buying Guide on PASAweb for more information.
www.pasa.asn.au/member-services/members-buying-guide
Free parking appreciated
The Police Association is grateful to Wilson Parking for the commitment it made and honoured to provide free parking for city-based association members throughout June. It was an extremely welcome gesture during the COVID-19 crisis.
