Confessions Of A Difficult Woman

Renee is one of the hardest-working, most talented female Australian music artists. From her early days as a singer in pubs and wine bars to her recording career in America, Renee has an incredible story to tell and this is her autobiography. She's done the drugs, done the sex, still doing...Read more

Crisscross

Thwarted ambition turns to murderous frustration…Sydney, 1975

Accountant Edward Piper is a discontented man. Plagued by self-doubt and patronised by his activist wife Sibyl, he yearns to follow what he believes to be his true...Read more

Murder's Burning

Set in Australia, it's a murder mystery that keeps you on the edge of your set. Excellence Aussie locale plays a strong role in murders committed during massive burnings caused by a draught across the countryside.Read more

After Port Arthur

A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looks at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole country has changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks.

When the gunshots started no one could quite believe it.A beautiful day. A...Read more

Already Dead

Miranda shrank away from him, arm pressed to the driver's door. ‘What's your name?'‘I'm already dead.

That's my name now. That's what they called me. I'm Already Dead.'

Journalist Miranda Jack is finally attempting to move on from the death of her...Read more

The Blood on My Hands: An Autobiography

Set in 1960s and '70s Australia, "The Blood on My Hands" is the dramatic tale of Shannon O'Leary's childhood years. O'Leary grew up under the shadow of horrific domestic violence, sexual and physical abuse, and serial murder. Her story is one of courageous resilience in the face of...Read more

Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club

'Crime's not a woman's business, Joanie. It's not some bloody game.'

In the murky world of Kings Cross in 1932, aspiring crime writer Joan Linderman and her friend and flatmate Bernice Becker live the wild bohemian life, a carnival of parties and fancy-dress artists' balls....Read more

My Best Friend's Murder

There are so many ways to kill a friendship . . .

You’re lying, sprawled at the bottom of the stairs, legs bent, arms wide.

And while this could be a tragic accident, if anyone’s got a motive to hurt you, it’s me.

Bec and Izzy have been best friends...Read more

Still

Darwin, Summer, 1963.

The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first...Read more

Wild Dogs

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners.

Still coming to terms with his wife’s death – and the part he played in it – the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues...Read more

The Unbelieved

'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pitch. 'Girls lie sometimes.' I nodded. 'And rapists lie all the time.'

When Senior Detective Antigone Pollard moves to the coastal town of Deception Bay, she is still in shock and...Read more

A Man of Honour

One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh - son of Queen Victoria - lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'...Read more

Flawed Hero

The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.Chris Masters is joint winner of the 2023 Walkley Honour for Media Freedom for his investigation of the Ben Roberts-Smith story ...Read more

Pheasants Nest

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assigned to cover her story? Have they started spooling through her social media and pulling out photographs? Constructing a narrative about who she is and what possible reason any person has to...Read more

The Outback Court Reporter

One of Australia's most experienced court reporters goes on a judicial road trip.

Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia.

From the case of the stolen cat flap...Read more

Prize Catch

A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy new crime novel from award-winning author Alan Carter.

When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an...Read more

We Are the Stars

Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.

From day one of her wildly unconventional...Read more

The Lodger

Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic...Read more

The Pool

Prince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is missing. Nine years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that fateful day marriages fractured, friendships crumbled and lives were upended.

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The Gallows Bird

London 1838: The cast-out child of an aristocratic mother, Hannah 'Birdie' Bird is a laundry maid with a hidden past and a suspicion that the wealthy family she serves is hers.

Longing for beauty and liberation, Birdie risks everything to change her circumstances. She falls into...Read more

The Bunny Club

Evelyn Sinclair, morning television host, is adored by her public but she's on the outer with management at her television station, and unknown to anyone, she is being 'let go'.

She escapes the stress for a weekend in her home in the Southern Highlands, planning to meet a man...Read more

Legacy

The sound hits them, a shock wave … glass smashing ... Somewhere a woman screams. A second explosion, and Martin looks towards the hall, what's left of it, flames roaring and smoke pouring skywards.

Someone is targeting Martin Scarsden. They bomb his book launch and...Read more

Almost Perfect

On July 2, 1970, tourists in Australia spotted a smashed car, teetering precariously on a cliff edge, overlooking the raging ocean below. It seemed the car would fall into the water at any moment, but the car lingered … as did a mystery, revealed when police traced the license plate to the...Read more

Death in Dreamtime

"I'm on to a filthy game. A game worse than murder." His cousin's baffling SOS sends Jack Corless speeding hundreds of miles north to Ungimillia, home of The Alchera or Dreamtime Land. In the shadows of the spectacle he finds murder and intrigue, but everywhere illusion and reality seem to...Read more

Crook As Rookwood

In an inner suburb of Sydney, a pensioner is bashed in his own home. An old Labor Party stalwart loses the faith and goes looking for someone to blame. And a young woman called Slick finds an unsettling connection between the death of her ex-husband and her new boss. When Gold Coast lawyer...Read more

Blood Stain

On 29th February 2000, Katherine Knight committed an unspeakable act. A mother of four and a grandmother, she seduced and then stabbed John Price 37 times.

A former abattoir worker, she skinned him.

A loving partner, she cooked him with vegetables, making a soup...Read more

City of Animals

At Sydney's Royal Prince Albert Zoo, fear is mounting. First a curator is found dead in a giraffe enclosure, then three endangered animals - part of a controversial shipment from Burma - are brutally slaughtered.

TV Producer Nikiya Adams arrives at the zoo to research a new...Read more

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

The Midnight Promise

A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the...Read more

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