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A prominent official in a ministry tinged with scandal. A dining car receipt. A name missing from a passenger list. And a young man and woman dead on a beach in an apparent suicide - lovers who had one final drink together. Disconnected points, but not to Detective Torigai, who keeps...Read more

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribeIt is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being...Read more

Sacked from ASIO for his involvement in the Peace Crimes Affair, Ramdas Nair is now a private detective facing bankruptcy. He could sink no lower. Or so he thought. Ramdas Nair should know by now that asking questions can get you into trouble, and that's just what he finds when he teams up...Read more

Micah and her enigmatic brother, Granite, are both manufactured people, grown in a lab, and a lot of people think that means they're not real, that they can't think or feel. Micah knows better, and she knows that her brother had feelings that run deep, which is why she's willing to help her...Read more

Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart.It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that brings him undone. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of...Read more

Husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move into an old house in a placid English village. There, they stumble across a clue in a children's book that points to a murder committed years earlier - a crime that puts their lives in danger. A murder someone doesn't want solved...Read more

Thea Farmer, 77, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following an unspecified scandal involving a much younger male teacher. After losing her savings in...Read more

Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces a test of loyalty and friendship.

Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at...Read more

Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen.

Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed...Read more

Written in the first person through the eyes of a crime writer, this is a fresh exploration of the ideas and theories that underpin crime fiction. Cole uses many of the conventions of crime writing to examine the influence of politics and feminism on the development of crime fiction, with a...Read more

Piha is a small beach settlement in New Zealand. Some go there to fish, swim or sunbathe, others to plant cannabis seedlings or to follow 'alternative lifestyles'. In this peaceful setting, nobody expects to be pushed over the sides of the huge Lion Rock, or to be stabbed with a fishing...Read more

When a young woman investigating a smuggling racket is murdered, her boyfriend picks up the trail. It leads him to a giant corporation, a sophisticated computer and a very sinister plan.Read more

Young, bright law student Stella lives high above Auckland harbour in uneasy luxury with Stuart, a lawyer with a past, who seems to specialize in violent death. Their relationship enters a new phase when they take on the case of Carlos Lehmann, a half-Maori incomer to a remote bush...Read more

John Punter, professional gambler and amateur private investigator, has seen his fair share of crime and shady dealings, both on the horse track and off it.  So when the daughter of a bookmaker friend is abducted, following hot on the heels of a gruesome murder after an abduction-gone-wrong...Read more