Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Gangland killings, drugs, corruption ...
You've read the newspapers, now read the book! - a .22 calibre pistol. Good for a head shot. Nice and neat. Professional!
An acquitted cop-killer is executed in a St Kilda back-street. Another gangland killing, or a rogue...Read more
When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to the only man she knows can help her - his old friend - Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk from her safe that contains extremely sensitive data, and she has seventy-two hours in which to deliver, or her father will die. But...Read more
Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn’t have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That’s the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time.
So he contacts a man...Read more
Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? Anna Simpson insists that her best friend Zach Santisi help her find the culprits. However, Zach must also care for his numerous pets and cope with his dad threatening to sell them if his next report card isn’t better. Just about everyone these...Read more
Rosemary Hirte, insurance broker known for her moderation, falls for a handsome professor and knows that at 52, it is her last chance. Afraid that the world will undermine the relationship, she weaves a deadly web into which she lures and destroys those coming too close to the object of her...Read more
Outrage at the crime turns to horror when a charred corpse and satanic symbols are found in the smoking ruins.
Leading the investigation, DI Jon Spicer stumbles into a perverse underworld he had no idea existed. Further killings bring the realisation that those responsible are...Read more
Armstead Maupin meets Carl Hiaasen in a brilliant black comedy set in New York
Cyrus - is a millionaire recluse. Oh and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and Susie Niedermeyer, a newly married couple who knew apartment hunting in New York would be hell, they just didn'...Read more
Out in that country the sun smeared the sky and nothing ever altered, except that one day a scrap man came by . . .
Her name is scarcely known or remembered. All in all, she is worth less than the nine shillings and sixpence counted into her father’s hand. She bides her time. She...Read more
In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons — one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one...Read more
Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot’s early cases from the days before he was famous ...
Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his...Read more
When ex-Major Ed Parker of the US Army is pushed over a cliff at Pointe du Hoc following the D-Day anniversary, a crisis is sparked off in British Intelligence. The cream of the Secret Service gather: Dr Audley, Oliver St John Latimer, Commander Cable, Dr Paul Mitchell. But none will take...Read more
Algeria, 1945
In the aftermath of World War II, soldier Robert Lombard returns to his wealthy family’s Algerian wine plantation hoping to build a peaceful and prosperous future for his country.
Mohamed, his Arab friend and comrade-in-arms against the Nazis, arrives...Read more
An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring...Read more
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s terrorist fears. Panic sweeps the city and the region...Read more
Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family's past and finally uncover the reasons why.Read more
Denver, Colorado: a pretty, clever young girl working for an environmental charity, Victoria Patawasti is sleeping peacefully, unaware that she has barely an hour to live.
As her killer slips into her apartment and draws a revolver in the darkness, Alex Lawson wakes up in Belfast...Read more
For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame on a sunny Amsterdam street. But Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached to NATO,...Read more
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat — spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind...Read more
The High Commissioner is accused of murder, and in Sydney Scobie Malone is given the job of going to London and bringing him back. At the same time the High Commissioner's murder is being planned, to create discord at the Peace Conference, and anarchy in Saigon.Read more
A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of "Mad Molly" Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlierRead more
Foreshadowing the nightmare visions of the twentieth century in which evil is perceived as central to the condition of man, His Natural Life is a novel of startling power and originality.
It is the greatest novel to come out of colonial Australia and pinpoints with...Read more
Autobiography of Ronald Biggs the Great Train RobberRead more
Makedde Vanderwall has her PhD and she has started a new life in Australia with her detective boyfriend, Andy Flynn. To scrape together extra cash to start her first forensic psychology practice, Mak begins working part-time for an infamous Sydney PI.
With a knack for...Read more
Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off.
But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local...Read more
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor...Read more
A paranoid old woman offers you a hundred grand to kill someone. Trouble is, you're no silent assassin and your target is psychic and quite clearly knows you are coming. So our (anti)hero takes the only option open to him—he gets a gun, gets smashed out of his brain, and hits the streets...Read more
Underworld executioner Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became a bizarre celebrity as his autobiography "Chopper From the Inside" became a bestseller. Six months later he was back in jail writing his second volume...Read more
On a dark and stormy night towards the end of the 19th century, a sinister meal once took place in Greyminster. This repast of two hoary geriatrics would have far-reaching effects, resulting a century later in the destruction of the known universe.Read more
It's the night before Hogwatch. And it's too quiet.
There's snow, there are robins, there are trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the fat man who delivers the toys...
He's gone.
Susan the governess has to find him before...Read more
Four friends set off for a trip in the Italian countryside, but their plans are changed when a fellow passenger on the train is brutally attacked, and they realize they have inadvertently walked off with crucial evidence of a more serious crime - evidence that someone desperately needs to...Read more