Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they’re not talking doesn’t mean the killing stops.
Someone is killing women. Women who bear an unsettling resemblance...Read more
PETER CORRIS BLOWS THE LID OFF WITNESS PROTECTION
It's not easy making people disappear, but if Luke Dunlop screws up, someone dies.
In Witness Protection there's no margin for error....
Every case is a matter of life and death.
Ava Belfante just...Read more
New novel in Chris Niles' witty series featuring Sam Ridley, following Spike It and Run Time.When Bruce McCarthy dies soon after reporting that his house is haunted, radio hack Sam Ridley decides to investigate. But he's soon up against forces far more dangerous than the supernatural . . ....Read more
Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature.
Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt’s...Read more
Twelve Australian writers respond to the challenge of creating a hybrid crime story. Murder, mayhem, and malice intercept with science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, fairy tale, and romance writing to create an unholy miasma, the likes of which you have never encountered before. Expect...Read more
Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. Her first house call is to nearby Crows Nest to assess the children of Sandra Kirby, which results in her getting both her new boss and a local detective...Read more
The Cruel Stars of the Night opens one snowy day when thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpses of two...Read more
This splendid thriller shows us Antony Maitland as Prosecutor, an unusual role for him. Another unusual factor is that, although complete in itself, the story is in a sense a sequel to Weep for Her.
A young man has been charged with receiving stolen goods—to wit, a...Read more
LONDON...KINGSTON...THE COCK PIT
First they tempted him with a fortune. Then they threatened him with death. A threat so harsh and implacable that Alex McAuliff knew he must go where they ordered...
To the savage depths of the Jamaican jungle area...Read more
Story of Raymond Edmunds, a convicted rapist and double murderer who was active in Victoria, Australia from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Edmunds was dubbed "Mr Stinky" by a newspaper editor due to his offensive body odour which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure...Read more
Spring has come to the faded seaside town of Seatoun. Vetch’s Investigations is buzzing with clients, but Grace Smith is the only one without a client. The situation has become so desperate that Grace has taken a job with the local Tourist Board. Dressed as the Easter Bunny, she's supposed...Read more
Why, on a wet and stormy night, did the not only old, but very ill novelist Dan Braile decide to take a walk The problems really begin when he doesn't come back. Most of his family wouldn't be sorry to see him disappear. Added to that are claims he'd made about someone trying to poison him...Read more
In London in 1865 Lydia Frankland finds a love letter written twenty years earlier by her late stepmother, Jane, to a natural historian at Port Arthur, Louis Lempriere. In the letter Jane confesses she is in love with Louis.
Lydia is horrified at her stepmother's apparent...Read more
Professor Peter Shandy, Balaclava College's best amateur sleuth, takes on a pest threatening to wipe Britain's lovely hedgerows. With colleagues Dan Stott and Timothy Ames, he leaves the groves of academe for fancy fieldword in the heart of Wales. Never in their...Read more
Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot's still razor sharp mind. Though aware of the criminal's identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs...Read more
In this second Italian Renaissance whodunit the enigmatic Sigismondo - at once mercenary, courtier, sleuth - is again called upon to solve a crime that seems to threaten an entire duchy. Prince Livio of Montenero, in a fit of insane rage following the death of his wife, lops off the head of...Read more
When a rugby star who began life on the streets is murdered in the arms of a beautiful celebrity, it seems to be an open-and-shut case of a drug deal gone wrong but Anna Markunas, legal researcher for the prime suspect's defence team, begins to uncover a far more sinister truth - one that...Read more
Nick Adamson only planned on being in Thailand for a week. But a week later he is running a beach bar, selling drugs to tourists, falling out with the police, falling in love with a hot blonde, and dueling with an out-of-control, drug lord.
Cut Out the Middleman follows...Read more
A massive undercover operation turns personal for DI Faraday when his son is involved. Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza Mackenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the money and on the surface at least is...Read more
To the ranks of great sleuths of ages past, add a new candidate - Julian Kestrel - a detective as historically authentic as Brother Cadfael and as dashing as Lord Peter Wimsey. Kestrel is the reigning dandy of London in the 1820s, famous for his elegant clothes and his unflappable sangfroid...Read more
The small team of policemen never even identified the dead girl and, for the officers involved, her murder came to symbolize everything that was wrong with the city—a haphazard sprawl of commerce and indifference. Four months on, that group is in disarray. Sean has disappeared into the city...Read more
A savage assault with a scalpel leaves Dr Tim Fletcher's body badly slashed in a deserted walkway - the first victim in a series of brutal assaults on hospital staff.As panic grips the city, it's up to Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick to find the killer.Faced with a mass of clues that...Read more
Melbourne, the spring of 1923.
When reporter Edward Bain is found dead in his office at
The Argus newspaper, Eleanor Jones realises that this is murder.
Eleanor, no longer a nurse, now writes film reviews for the newspaper, but she still knows the signs of...Read more
Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and she is gone. With no trace of where, or why she's been abducted, suspicion falls on her divorced father, Captain Riedwaan. The boss...Read more
He will risk everything in the race to save her life . Logan Finch has just about everything he ever wanted, including a penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in one of Scotland's largest law firms. But there's something missing from his he still pines for the woman he thought...Read more
This is the story of Billy, whose Grandmother left him the "voodoo handbag" in her will, after he had sold her soul to science. The tales it tells Billy will change his life forever and the lives of other people as well.Read more
In the eye of a storm, as Dr Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them.
Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, has stumbled onto her isolated farm in the O’Connor Valley, with no clue to the...Read more
Still reeling from the accidental death of his fiancée, Regan Paul returns from Washington to his home town of Wanganui, hoping to become a National candidate in the forthcoming general election.
However, he finds a town equally depressed after the shock closure of the main...Read more
Stephen Booth's award-winning novel, Black Dog, was hailed as "an impressive performance" (The Denver Post). Now, Constables Ben Cooper and Diane Fry must contend with a killer whose motives are shrouded in bloody history. DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS In a remote part of Northern England's Peak...Read more
