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It Takes a Town

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?
 
Everyone dies famous in a country town, but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star. A celebrity since a television commercial when she was a child, Vanessa is back on the front page for...Read more

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The Italian Secret

No.1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast.

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground...Read more

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Jacaranda Blue

For forty-four years Stella Templeton has been a dutiful daughter and a good citizen, living in Maidenville, population 2,800 where nothing happens.

Until one hot summer afternoon.

An ugly act has lifted the respectable skirts of Maidenville and mystery starts to...Read more

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Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian Australian of the Year. But the title he’s most proud to claim is that of Aboriginal Elder.

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care...Read more

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The Jack Irish Quinella

The first two books in Peter Temple's highly acclaimed Jack Irish series, now published in one volume.

Bad Debts (Winner of the 1996 Ned Kelly Award) Ex-lawyer Jack Irish is in no special hurry to return a call from ex-client Danny McKillop. For one thing, they...Read more

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Jack the Ripper

Who really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? Or was Jack the Ripper three two killers and an accomplice? In this work the author investigates all aspects of this strange case shrouded in mystery and misconception. The discovery of the...Read more

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Jacks and jokers

In Three Crooked Kings we read about the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. In Jacks and Jokers, the story continues as Terry Lewis becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police...Read more

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Jane Blonde Sensational Spylet

Until now, you have been just plain old Janey Brown.  But you are going to grow and grow.  You will be what your parents have not allowed you to be.  It's in your past.  And it's in your future.  There's a whole new part of you just waiting to burst out.

You are JANE BLONDE -...Read more

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The January Zone

Politician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician's 'security consultant' but he dislikes bombers, hit men and hatemailers even more. Protecting January leads to protecting his assistant, Trudi Bell, which is...Read more

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The Japanese Job

Crawley liked the Brisbane of the 90s. The new buildings, the feeling that he could walk down whichever side of the street he wanted to. He likes the post-Fitzgerald changes for the most part too - new, leaner faces in government and the police. But there were worrying signs of Yakuza...Read more

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Jasper Cliff

When Toby Bowman vanishes, his brother Lachlan retraces a road trip to the last place Toby phoned from – a remote northern town called Jasper Cliff. There, Lachlan finds himself marooned at the dying town' s pub, and soon learns that his brother is just one of many to have gone missing in...Read more

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Jennifer Shot -- The First Shot

Murder, cannibalism, kidnapping and breach of copyright hit the sleepy state of Tasmania.

To make ends meet, law student Jennifer Shot rents rooms to Nathan, Rod and Cindy, two oversexed fellow law students, and a police officer with personal issues. Things start going wrong...Read more

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JF Was Here

AIDS is killing John Freeman. But before he dies he wants to understand himself - both as victim and killer. From the aptly decaying grandeur of the Hydro Majestic Hotel JF recalls his adult life, lived largely in Papua New Guinea, and his great love, handsome, vital Francis Tapukai....Read more

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Jinx

One spring morning a woman is found dead in a Brunswick alley adorned with symbols of the occult. Catherine Kint, milliner, gin enthusiast and raconteur, has no reason to be involved until her friend is under investigation. Armed with her sharp wit, a crime scene background and a barman...Read more

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Joe Cinque's Consolation

A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW

In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the...Read more

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A Journal of Sin

A village, isolated by a severe storm, and a young officer, alone and out of her depth. A troubled priest is brutally murdered, leaving behind a journal of the resident's confessional secrets; secrets certain people would prefer he took to the grave.

As word spreads, the pressure...Read more

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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 telling Cassie and Andie one big...Read more

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Judgement Day

Family law judge Kaye Bailey is found murdered in her chambers. Is this the work of a disgruntled complainant? Or an inside job by a jealous colleague? Or is there something even more insidious at the heart of this brutal act?

Detective Jillian Basset is just back from...Read more

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The Judgement of Larose

A wealthy but notorious gambler is killed in the billiard room of a baronet's county house the morning after the Goodwood races. While the crime seemed easy to solve before long the local police were unable to say whether it was an insider or an outsider crime. Along came Larose, who soon...Read more

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Junkie Pilgrim

Junkie Pilgrim is a raw tale of addiction and murder that moves between the dark underside of Sydney's waterfront and the alleyways of Kings Cross.Read more

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Just Another Little Murder

Phil Cleary's pursuit of the justice denied his sister is revealed through this powerful account of her killer's life and crimes.;

'Eyes downcast, his head framed by the shadow from the flash and his thick hands a patchwork of freckles branded with scars from the removal of...Read more

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Just Desserts

Hal Spacejock has a problem. His cargo hold is packed with luxury foodstuffs, and the freezer equipment he bought from Bent Jimmy has just failed.Clunk predicted this of course, but does Hal ever listen?Now they need replacement parts before their cargo rots, and they're...Read more

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Just Murdered

Introducing the fabulous Ms Peregrine Fisher, niece of the famous Phryne Fisher, as seen on 7plus and Acorn tv

'A splendid read, with an authentic 60s flavour. I recommend it unreservedly.' - Kerry Greenwood

Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of...Read more

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Just Play Along

When Andy and Mel's double date turns into a snuff film, Andy fights back, killing one of her attackers, leading to an unwanted aftermath of attention and threats.

Detective Daniel Connor links the attack to the recent discovery of six female bodies found buried in bushland on...Read more

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Justice Denied

Bill Hosking looks back at his career as a criminal barrister in a candid account of his time at the bar. He tells the true story behind some of his most famous cases, including the Hilton bombings, ‘Toecutter’ Jimmy Driscoll’s attempt to avoid prison time, and the Anita Cobby trial....Read more

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Justice Denied

In June 1997, in the Victorian industrial town of Moe, toddler Jaidyn Leske went missing. The child's body was found in a local dam many months later. Jaidyn's babysitter on the night he went missing, Greg Domaszewicz was charged with murder but was a acquitted by a jury.

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Justice for the Dead

As an experienced forensic pathologist, Malcolm Dodd thought he had seen everything. But when he arrived in East Timor they told him he would have to "harden up", They were right. Justice for the Dead looks at what goes on behind the scenes of some of the most brutal mass murders of modern...Read more

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Justice in Jeopardy

As her parent's slept on Friday April 13, 1973 17-month old Deidre Kennedy was snatched from her cot. Tossed like trash on top of a toilet block in a nearby park, dawn revealed the obscenity of her murder. Dressed in women's underwear, her chubby thigh showed bruising inflicted by bite...Read more

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Kafkaesque Eyes

A bizarre case. Five brutal murders. Corpses covered in an intricate pattern of dozens and dozens of bites. Like those a vampire would make.

It starts out like just another case to bounty hunter Jacqui West. All too soon it becomes a tangled web where the present is connected...Read more

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Kaikōura Rendezvous

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The third book in the Melbourne Spotlight Mystery series finds television colleagues Kim Prescott and Jo Trescowthick travelling New Zealand in a motorhome.

It should be a carefree summer adventure with an idyllic itinerary: whale watching in Kaikōura, mud pools in Rotorua, the...Read more

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