Sorted on book title (not in series order)
In this novel, top Australian cop Carol Ashton tracks the most elusive killer of her career. When people with no obvious connection to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents, nothing seems amiss, until Carol Ashton receives a call from a private investigator.Read more
Is Carol playing into a killer's plan?
A series of random deaths suddenly fall into a pattern when reclusive, eccentric billionaire Thurmond Rule dies, leaving an immense estate, but no valid will. With no close relatives -- Rule's son and only heir vanished mysteriously years...Read more
A thriller from the Carol Ashton series, in which Ashton is assigned as a bodyguard to a feminist lecturer who attracts publicity as well as death threats from a group who threaten to execute her by any means necessary.Read more
To Whom It May Concern: You are a chosen one. Your name has been selected to receive these instructions. Follow them exactly and you will have great good fortune. Fail, and this letter will bring you death. You have forty-eight hours. Do not break the chain...
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Bryce Darcy, partner in a successful family business, has been murdered. His sister has confessed and DI Carol Ashton is informed that it's a shut case. Yet, Carol discovers that the dead man was a member of a support group for married gay men, and that the Darcy family seethes with secrets...Read more
Undercover agent Denise Cleever is used to putting her life on the linebut now she's in a situation where her sanity is at risk.
In Australia, a young British woman with a bomb strapped to her body embraces a visiting American senator--and activates the device. In Paris, a...Read more
An exclusive golf tournament is carefully designed to lure the world's top players to a private clubhouse. With a lot more happening off the course than on, the fairway becomes a killing field, and someone sets out to even the score.Read more
Four women dead, each strangled with an orange cord, their bodies ritually arranged. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton and Detective Sergeant Mark Bourke have a serial killer on their hands.
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This is the first in a new series for author Claire McNab. It features Denise Cleever, an undercover agent for the Australian intelligence agency. She is placed at Hedwing Institute, which is run by one of Australia's most powerful families. She trying to gather evidence about the...Read more
Kylie may still be a private eye in training, and she may still be reeling by the secret her business partner finally revealed to her. But nothing can compare to her family’s interference, even from far-away Australia. When her mother asks Kylie to check in on “distant” relative Doug “Dingo...Read more
TV star Madeline Shipley is being stalked, but is she really the prey of a psychotic fan? Investigating the suicide of businessman Hayden Delray's wife, Carol receives threats that could be meant to lever her off the case. As she becomes more involved, the danger widens to include her...Read more
To know Milton Royce is to loathe him. Now in his mid-forties, the practical joker enjoys embarrassing others, and he delights in coming up with elaborate schemes for setting up his "friends" as fall guys. When he plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to...Read more
After a tumultuous investigation that ended with a surprising and welcome new relationship, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton seems settled. Though she is in the closet to protect her career, life with Sybil is good—until the call that pulls Carol back to the woman who left her three years...Read more
Inner Circle is Claire McNab's eighth installment in her riveting mystery series featuring Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton.Read more
Frustrated, transplanted Aussie Kylie Kendall mostly hangs out with her secretary and samples LA nightlife. Owning half a detective agency is boring when your partner won’t let you detect. But twins Alf and Chica Hartnidge, hosts of Australian hit children TV show The Oz Mob ask...Read more
On a hot summer day in Sydney Australia, teacher Bill Pagett is murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton uncovers tangled relationships among six teachers, threats by letter and phone, and another corpse. Plus she is attracted to prime suspect Sybil Quade.Read more
Two celebrated writers combine to offer the electrifying conclusion to a legendary mystery series…
Detective Inspector Carol Ashton’s promotion to Chief Inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life....Read more
The second collection of stories by Australian writers of crime, mystery and psychic violence, including Alex Juniper, Peter Corris, Claire McNab, Marele Day and Jennifer Rowe.
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Undercover agent Denise Cleever faces a daunting assignment - infiltrate the shadowy terrorist group who has found a unique method to produce widespread panic. How? By paying amateur contract killers a considerable bounty for every successful murder at random.
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An agent with the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, Denise Cleever welcomes the prospect of a special assignment on an island paradise. Deep undercover at an exclusive resort off the Great Barrier Reef, Denise finds nothing unusual until she encounters the owner's rebellious...Read more
Fifth mystery featuring Detective Inspector Caroline Ashton. Following the death of a young tenor superstar of the Eureka Opera Company, Detective Inspector Ashton is called in to determine whether the death is suicide, accident or murder.Read more
A vicious terrorist group is operating deep within the wild reaches of Australia. Using every ruse in the book, Denise infiltrates the terrorist training camp, knowing that if she is found out, her "comrades" will torture her to death.Read more
Dr Brian Halstead, a leading specialist in fertility treatment, heads a clinic at the cutting edge of genetic research. A scandal threatens to paint a very different picture of a dangerous fanatic playing with his patient's lives - and with the laws of nature.Read more
Stone the crows—Aussie Kylie Kendall returns!
Kylie’s relationship with paramour Ariana Creeling has reached a new level—until she disappears. There’s no sign of violence, no ransom demand—she simply vanishes. Kylie is distraught, not knowing whether she’s alive or dead....Read more
Kylie Kendall is hired for a routine security detail to prevent an academic rival from disrupting Dr. Oscar Braithwaite’s keynote address at UCLA’s Global Marsupial Symposium. Sounds easy enough to be downright dull, but then Dr. Braithwaite is murdered, and his sister, the sexually...Read more
Australian undercover agent Denise Cleever is the only member of the worldwide intelligence community who has seen the never-photographed international terrorist Red Wolf face-to-face . . . and lived. Now the fear is that Red Wolf is in the United States to coordinate a series of terrorist...Read more
While tracking down a ruthless hired killer, Australian top cop Carol Ashton is tempted by the seductive charms of a mysterious stranger . . . a woman whose shadowy secrets could be leading Carol to the dark side of desire.Read more
When a law enforcement officer dies under highly suspicious circumstances, it sounds like a perfect case for Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton ... Too bad she's the suspect.Attending a rigorous F.B.I. training course in the United States, Aussie top cop Carol Ashton feels a little...Read more
Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall leaves tiny Australian outback Wollegudgerie pub when unknown dad leaves her 51% of his LA detective agency. Lovely enigmatic Arianna Creeling offers to buy her out, but Dr Deer, celebrity psychiatrist to the stars, hires them to investigate his stolen records, and...Read more