8 Hours to Die
Perfect isolation. No phones. No neighbors. No help.Read more
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J.R. Carroll
8 Hours to Die, J.R. Carroll
"Carroll is the Australian writer who has most fully and consistently approached the dark and alienated world of Americans like James Ellory and Andrew Vachss..." Continent of Mystery, Stephen Knight (MUP, 1997).
Sometime in the early 2000's,...Read more
Blindside
This raunchy page-turner features Shaun McCreadie, a young police detective who finds himself on the wrong side of the law and implicated in a brutal home invasion. When McCreadie is released from jail 11 years later he is determined to discover the nature of the crime that put him away....Read more
Case Reopened
A series of real cases investigated by Australian crime writers who were asked to take a famous Australian murder or mystery - and solve it! Have they really stumbled onto new information, or are their speculations merely fiction?Read more
Case Reopened, edited by Stuart Cope and Julie Ogden
This book was on my Quest List for such a long time until I finally managed to track down a copy (and was subsequently somewhat startled to find it listed on Fishpond NZ!). The reason it hit the Quest List was the premise sounded so fascinating - take a bunch of real life cases, give them...Read more
Catspaw
Don Bartholomew knew he was into crime. But he didn't know how deep-until the drugs turned up. From small-time crime to hit man for the drug gangs is a long road -- but it's worthwhile if your, briefcase holds sixty thousand dollars.
Originally published under the name of John...Read more
Cheaters
"The Honest Conman" (aka Nicholas J Johnson) used to do a warning segment on scams and frauds on ABC Local Radio, but it was a pleasant surprise to find he'd written a heist / scam novel. Needless to say his debut novel, CHASING THE ACE, reads like the author knows a lot about the subject...Read more
Cheaters, J.R. Carroll
J R Carroll writes a really lively combination of gangster thriller crime fiction. Set in and around Melbourne there have been a few books which are a series - using the same characters and a lot that are standalone.
CHEATERS is one of the standalones thus far, or at least,...Read more
The Clan
No-one can mess with the clan and expect to live... The Killing: An unarmed teenage ram-raider is gunned down by police in a back alley … The Family: The Beatties, one of Melbourne’s most notoriously lawless clans stretching back to the Sixties. Now their youngest is dead, and Melbourne...Read more
Hard Yards
It's September 2000, and the Olympic Games are about to descend on Sydney. The city is at fever pitch, but Barrett Pike, private investigator, couldn't care less.
The excitement in Barrett's life comes via his part-time squeeze, the glamorous and successful...Read more
Moonlight Becomes You
Strange and terrible things can happen in the light of the moon - crimes of passioncrimes of the heartcrimes of madness and lust. The glamour of moonlight can cast its glow - transforming the mundane, tricking the eye of the beholder, leading commonsense astray.In this collection, Australia...Read more
No Way Back
His fellow cops say he's trigger-happy.
His ex-wife says he's unstable.
His new lover says he's obsessive.
His superiors say he's off the case and under investigation.
His world...Read more
Out of the Blue
The shockingly violent death of his wife was no accident. And Dennis Gatz knows it.
But the cops aren't interested. Gatz is a loose cannon who couldn't handle the force. No longer one of them. No longer worth the trouble.
But...Read more
Stingray
You reckon you've seen everything, but you never have, have you? There's always something really shitful up ahead. Waiting for you.... The bodies of eight women are uncovered in the scrub at Kinglake. For Kerry Byrne, head of the task force investigating the murders, it's a problem he...Read more
Stingray, J.R. Carroll
This is an earlier book from J.R. Carroll (although later books are thin on the ground now as well), set in Melbourne, where the discovery of eight bodies in the scrub at Kinglake is only part of what is happening. This book revolves around the man in charge of that investigation - Kerry...Read more