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Splinter the Silence

Psychological profiler Tony Hill is trained to see patterns, to decode the mysteries of human behaviour, and when he comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Similar...Read more

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Tony Hill & Carol Jordan
No in Series: 
9

The Spotted Dog

Intrepid baker and erstwhile investigator Corinna Chapman
returns triumphantly in her first adventure in seven years

Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover is back! When a distraught Scottish...Read more

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Corinna Chapman
No in Series: 
7

The Spring of Kasper Meier

The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father....Read more

Series Name: 
Kasper Meier
No in Series: 
1

Spring Tide

The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns to horror as he makes out the fourth figure of the woman for whom the hole...Read more

Series Name: 
Rönning & Stilton
No in Series: 
1

Spy Catcher

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer is a memoir written by Peter Wright, former MI5 officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass. Wright drew on his own experiences and research into the history of the British intelligence community....Read more

Stage Fright

Tara Sharp is back in this frightening foray into the music industry.

Things are a bit hot for Tara Sharp in her home town of Perth, so she jumps at the chance to leave town when a music promoter offers her a gig looking after a difficult musician who's touring Brisbane....Read more

Series Name: 
Tara Sharp
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3

A Stain on the Silence

You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide . . . 

James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her...Read more

Stalin's Gold

December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down. September 1940 London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the...Read more

Series Name: 
DCI Frank Merlin
No in Series: 
2

Stalked by Shadows

LUCY JARRETT IS TERRIFIED. She's convinced that somebody is watching her, following her home from work and lurking in shadows. But when she looks, there's nobody there. The phone calls are real enough, even if the caller never speaks, although they never seem to happen when her husband is...Read more

Series Name: 
DI Mariner
No in Series: 
5

State of Fear

Catching the world's most wanted terrorist was supposed to be someone else's job...

John Bailey has a history of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The former war correspondent has been kidnapped and tortured – twice. Finally he’s living something that...Read more

Series Name: 
John Bailey
No in Series: 
2

Still Life

'The bodies never stay buried forever...'

On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace...Read more

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Inspector Karen Pirie
No in Series: 
6

Still Midnight

Armed men invade a family home, shouting for a man nobody's heard of. As DS Morrow tries to uncover one family's secrets, she must protect her own.Read more

Series Name: 
Alex Morrow
No in Series: 
1

Still Missing

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about...Read more

Still Murder

A nosy nun discovers a body in a park. There is an immediate police cover-up. A Vietnam veteran spies on his old sweetheart. A man tries to rape his wife's lover. And why has senior detective Margot Gorman been assigned to watch over a woman in an asylum?Read more

Series Name: 
Margot Gorman
No in Series: 
1

Still Waters

In the suburbs, a young mother is looking after her two children.  She has been a successful career woman in control of her life, sexually aware and used to attracting any man's undivided attention ... if she wanted to.

But now her control is slipping away.  Motherhood is...Read more

The Sting

The disappearance of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe was one of the most heartbreaking and confounding child abduction and murder cases of the century, spanning almost a decade prior to the eventual arrest of known pedophile Brett Peter Cowan, one of the original persons of interest...Read more

The Stolen

Senior Detective Antigone Pollard is fearless. Armed with a trained police dog, a black belt in judo and the will to speak her mind, she faces opposition head-on.

After six months, Antigone is feeling more settled in Deception Bay. The summer holiday season is off to a slow...Read more

Series Name: 
Antigone Pollard
No in Series: 
2

Stone Bruises

'Somebody!' I half-sob and then, more quietly, 'Please.' The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I’m not going anywhere...

Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't...Read more

Stone Town

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

Series Name: 
Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti
No in Series: 
2

The Stoning

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery.

A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and...Read more

Series Name: 
DS George Manolis
No in Series: 
1

Storm Clouds

National Parks ranger Erin Taylor loves her job, is falling for her colleague, Simon, and is finally leaving her past behind . . .

Until a woman is murdered. But the victim is not just any woman – she’s Simon’s wife, Hayley. The wife he’s never mentioned. The wife he’s not seen...Read more

Series Name: 
Goodabri
No in Series: 
2

Storm Peak

Jesse Parker, ex-Denver police detective, has returned to his hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to spend the winter working the ski patrol and taking it easy. But he is reluctantly dragged back into a world of violence and murder when a serial killer begins a killing spree in the...Read more

Series Name: 
Jesse Parker
No in Series: 
2

A Straits Settlement

In the third instalment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police in 1920s Madras, which proves to be more boring than he had envisaged. Instead of pushing papers across his desk, Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior...Read more

Series Name: 
Le Fanu
No in Series: 
3

The Stranger

In the new thriller by Camilla Läckberg, a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.

A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn’t a...Read more

Series Name: 
Fjällbacka
No in Series: 
4

The Stranger Diaries

A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time?

A gripping contemporary Gothic thriller from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Wilkie Collins and MR James meet Gone Girl and Disclaimer...Read more

Series Name: 
Harbinder Kaur
No in Series: 
1

A Stranger in My Street

It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing.

US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars,...Read more

Stratton's War

London, June 1940.  When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced.  Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions and it becomes clear...Read more

Series Name: 
DI Ted Stratton
No in Series: 
1

The Strength of Eggshells

New Zealand literary fiction with a part historical setting.

Kate sets out on a motorbike to find her past. Why does her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a...Read more

The Strip

When a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption.

As she delves deeper into the case, Lana reluctantly pairs up with Henry Loch, a...Read more

Suburban True Crime

Chilling cases of murder and crime that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs.

Featuring contemporary cases as well as some shocking historical murders you’ve probably never heard of, Suburban True Crime proves you shouldn’t say “it could never happen here”....Read more

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