The Grapevine

The book cover of The Grapevine by Kate Kemp is made up of an old fashioned telephone handset which is orangey/yellow in colour. It's hanging by its cord in front of an elaborate pattern of vine leaves etched out in yellow green and white against a blue green background.

There are secrets behind every closed door in the Warrah Place neighbourhood, and who killed Antonio Marietti is the biggest one of all . . .

It's the height of summer in Australia, 1979, and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in Canberra a housewife is scrubbing...Read more

Best Served Cold

The book cover for Best Served Cold by Kel Robertson includes the notation 'A Brad Chen Novel'.

The image is mostly made up of a yellow and orangeish sky blending downards to purple hills with a large tower in the middle, standing over a few lights hinting at parts of Canberra.

After failed attempts to make a different future, Brad Chen returns to the Australian capital to reprise his role as the city's number one murder investigator. Where others see mere coincidence in the deaths of three friends, Chen soon sees clear and sinister purpose. His efforts to bring...Read more