The Woman Who Knew Too Little

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 24/10/2024 - 2:19pm by Karen

The book cover for The Woman Who Knew Too Little by Olivia Wearne includes the tagline '1948, Somerton, Adelaide. A Dead Man. An unsolved mystery.' at the bottom with the title of the book in slanted lettering in the middle across the image of a woman in a 1940's style coat with rolled hairdo, a handbag and a hat in her hand. She's walking away from the viewer towards a car with headlights lighting the cobblestone roadway she's walking on. The overwhelming colour is green with a foggy green sky light by a single street light.

1948. An unidentified dead man is found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide. Officer Kitty Wheeler yearns to work the case - but the city's women police are typically assigned to more domestic matters. A wryly funny, sharply observed novel about one of Australia's great mysteries, and the...Read more

Broken Bay

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 09/07/2024 - 3:15pm by Karen

Image of the book cover for Broken Bay by Margaret Hickey includes the taglines 'Where truth is dead in the water' and 'Author of Cutters End and Stone Town' The image is of a sinkhole filled with deep blue water, it has high surrounding vertical edges, sitting in the middle of dry paddocks with a small row of trees beside it. Off into the distance there's a small hill and the sky above is dark blue and cloudy.

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spectacular Australian landscape known for its jagged cliffs and hidden caves.

Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a few days’ holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time....Read more

Sanctuary

BOOK ADDED: Sat, 13/04/2024 - 11:19am by Karen

The image of the book cover for Sanctuary by Garry Disher includes the tagline 'Bestselling Author of Day's End' and the quote 'Disher is a master at controlling his material, taking his readers along the dusty, rutted roads that always pop up when we expect bitumen smoothness. But it's a journey worth taking, for the pure joy of the writing.' Herald Sun The image is of a long, dead straight red gravel road with scrubby bush either side of it, and paddocks with a touch of canola yellow behind. The road is heading towards a long, low stand of hills in the distance, with a cloudy purple / pinkish sky above.

Grace is a thief- a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items-stamps, watches-and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not...Read more

Stone Town

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 24/05/2023 - 4:23pm by Karen

The book cover for Stone Town by Margaret Hickey includes the tagline 'Where land is the new gold and people will die for it.' The image is looking out across a dry, ripe looking field of grain to a small stone building on the left and more open fields and trees to the right. The sky above is dusty brown and yellow. There's a quote at the top of the image 'Astonishingly assured crime .. A pitch perfect outback noir'. Weekend Australian on Cutters End

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End.

With its gold rush history long in the past, Stone Town has definitely seen better days. And it’s now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons . . .

When three teenagers...Read more

Cutters End

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 06/11/2022 - 4:19pm by Karen

The book cover for Cutters End by Margaret Hickey includes the tagline 'A Desert Highway. A Remote Town. A Murder that Won't Stay Hidden.' The image is looking out across a dry, brown patch of grass with a single, scrubby tree to the left. In the distance there's low bush, and a cloudy yellowish / dusty looking sky.

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterious death on New Year’s Eve 1989 leads to a shocking murder investigation 32 years later...

A desert highway. A remote town. A murder that won’t stay hidden....Read more

Deception Creek

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 07/10/2021 - 12:00am by Karen

The book cover for Deception Creek by Fleur McDonald has the note 'Voice of the Outback Over 650,000 books sold' at the top and the tagline 'When secrets from the past threaten, loyalties are questioned.' in the middle of an image of a woman, wearing a short sleeved shirt, she has long brown hair and is looking towards her right. She's standing on the left with a farm scene in front of her - a grain bin, trees and slightly hilly paddocks. The whole thing is washed pinky dusk colour and there's a hint of the sun rising or setting in the distance.

A returned criminal, a cult-like family and cybercrime all clash against the backdrop of the Flinders Ranges in this thrilling new rural suspense novel from the best-selling Voice of the Outback.

Emma Cameron, a recently divorced farmer and a local in Barker,...Read more

Bitter Wash Road

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 18/02/2019 - 11:32am by Karen

The book cover of Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher showing a dried out wheat field with two tyre tracks running through it, echoed by a hint of light against a dark cloudy sky. There's a quote 'Bitter Wash Road is superb.' The Australian.

When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate the gunfire he finds himself cut off without back-up. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch’s first thought is that ‘back-up’ is nearby—and about to put a bullet in him. That’s...Read more