Books from Australia and New Zealand and associated territories

The book cover for 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare with the taglines 'Who really killed the Primrose family?' and 'Bestselling author of The Wrong Woman'

The image is of a large, stately looking multi-storey house with elaborate verandahs, porches and decorations. There are large wrought iron gates slightly open in front with a figure walking away from the viewer between the gates and the entrance steps to the house. The colour scheme is greyed out, and there is a quote at the bottom 'A rare talent who continues to turn out crime masterpieces. Herald Sun'

The book cover for IQ 84 by Haruki Murakami has the taglines 'National Bestseller' and 'A Novel'. The image is of the face of a woman, up very close with a wash of shading over the top, the title of the book is spread across the image, in relief so that parts of her image are more clearly visible.

The image of the book cover for A Deadly Game by Laraine Stephens is a drawing of a man in silhouette, he's wearing a long coat, grey tie and hat on an angle. There's a 1940's style car behind him, and it is all laid out on a textured pale blue background.

The image of the book cover for A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'A Rowland Sinclair Novel', with the quote 'Rowland Sinclair ... the gentleman sleuth ... with a penchant for living la vie de boheme' Sun Herald.

The cover is made up of a shot of three men, and one woman standing in front of a deck railing, looking out towards a city view featuring high buildings. The men are wearing 1940's style suits, two in hats, and the woman is wearing a long dress with a coat over the top, and a hat. There is a paint brush above their heads with a blood spatter at the brush end.

A Decline in Prophets

The image of the book cover for A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'Introducing Rowland Sinclair', with the quote 'Witty dialogue, lively characters, and a shrewd political awareness of the times. - Award-winning Novelist, Marele Day.

The cover is made up of a shot of men standing, at the top, the lower half of their bodies only visible. They are wearing suits with dress shoes, and one is holding a hat in his hand. The colours are muted grey's, whites and slightly tinted brown. There is a blood spatter at the bottom of the book, beside the tagline with a paint brush lying across the image and the author's name below that.

A Few Right Thinking Men

The book cover for A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings has the image of a child kneeling on the floor, drawing or writing with a pencil in their hand. The tagline 'A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past. ... And a town full of secrets.' There's also a quote from Malcolm Knox 'One of A Kind'.

The image is orange and brown in town with a large window above the child glowing golden brown / orange.

A Town Called Treachery

The book cover of Mirror Mirror who's The Killer? has a tagline of 'Wyld Enchantment Woods Cozy Mystery'. The image is a fantasy styled cartoonish wintery scene with a castle at the top, snow covered trees in the middle and a cat in the foreground. There's somebody off in the distant with their hair streaming out to the left, and pumpkins at the bottom. A candle stick is in the centre of the title which says just Post Mortem

Ace Post Mortem Twist

The image of the book cover for An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris includes the tagline 'If you had the power over life and death, what would you do?'.

The image has a red and pink background with a dagger to the left that's sitting upright, looking like the scales of justice. There's a woman in one of the balance cups, standing up, and a man lying down in the other, with red blood dripping from his body.

An Ethical Guide to Murder

The book cover for Best Served Cold by Kel Robertson includes the notation 'A Brad Chen Novel'.

The image is mostly made up of a yellow and orangeish sky blending downards to purple hills with a large tower in the middle, standing over a few lights hinting at parts of Canberra.

Best Served Cold

The image of the book cover for Better Left Dead by Catherine Lea includes the tagline ' Secrets Abound and No One's Telling the Full Story' and the notation 'A DI Nyree Bradshaw Novel.' The image is of a striking pink, purple and yellow sky over a beach that has scrubby trees and bushes right up to the edge. The tide is out and the water is reflecting the colours of the sky.

Better Left Dead

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.

Bitter Wash Road

The book cover of Blood & Ink by Brett Adams includes the tagline 'A heart-stopping new crime novel by' immediately above the author's name. The background is pale blue, with a pile of books that have the names on the spines including 'Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Cold Blood Truman Capote & The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule'. On the top of the stack there's a white campervan and two small silhouettes of male characters - one pointing to the van.

The image of the book cover for Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti includes the tagline ' A One-Man Police Station. Three Murders. A Past That Will Not Stay Buried'.

The image is stark, with bones lying on dry red dirt at the bottom, dry grass above, with a rider on a horse in the centre distance. There's a single scrubby tree and a square brick building to the right. Overhead the sky is dirty yellow and red, heading to dark grey at the top.

Book cover for Boney Creek by Paula Gleeson with the tagline "A Thriller".

The image shows a typical rural weatherboard small church in the distance, on dry red dirt, with a couple of dead saplings at the forefront and a small what looks like stone building off to the right. There's a really big sky above it, which is slightly hazy brownish yellow, with lots of black birds circling overhead.

The image of the book cover for Brainstorm by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox includes the tagline ' A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution '. The image is a photo of Richard Scolyer, smiling, against a blue background, he's wearing a plain dark t-shirt.

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.

The book cover for Bunny by S.E. Tolsen has the tagline 'You can't outrun your childhood demons' at the top of a cover that's made up of a brightly lit small house / cabin surrounded by tall dark trees. There's a glow coming from somewhere behind the building, otherwise everything is dark, foggy and creepy.

The image of the book cover for Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery '.

The image has a dark background with a bright red smokey looking cloud taking up most of the area, with a view of a bay with a lot of small boats moored on it at the bottom and the hint of a dark dragon's face in the centre, the title is superimposed over that in gold italic lettering. Directly below that is a golden long dragon.

Chasing the Dragon

The book cover for Cherrywood by Jock Serong has two quotes on it 'Sublime and haunting' Toni Jordan and 'Beautiful' Tim Rogers.

The background of the image is beautifully fitted together, rounded off pieces of wood (like an edging of a frame or box). They are glowing slightly red with deep grain throughout. There's part of a barometer showing at the top with the needle just below change, on the way to fair.

In the centre there's another dial (? nautical image - might be a compass / doesn't look like one), with part of a watch face peaking out on the right. At the bottom there's a perpetual calendar dial with a red painted image that overlays the surrounding wood.

The image of the book cover for City of Vengeance by D.V. Biship includes the tagline 'Florence, 1536. An officer of the court, on the wrong side of the law ....'.

The background is red, the title in a gothic style black font that takes up the majority of the space, with the additional tagline of 'Introducing Cesare Aldo' and the quotes 'Impressive and immersive' Antonia Hodgson and 'Richly atmospheric' Ambrose Perry, either side of a gold crest in the centre of the image.

At the bottom there is an elaborate bridge crossing a still river with buildings either side.

City of Vengeance

The book cover of Cold Case Investigations by Dr Xanthe Mallett has the tagline 'With one of Australia's leading minds in forensic anthropology and criminology'

The image is of a blonde woman sitting with her hands held together in front of her knees. She's looking straight at the viewer, and there is a wisp of smoke behind her.

Cold Case Investigations

The book cover for Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie includes the tagline 'The explosive inside story behind the headlines' and a note after the author's name 'Walkley Award-Winning Investigative Journalist'

The background of the image is textured black / grey with, at the top left, an image of the upper body of Roberts-Smith in full uniform, hands in his pockets he's smiling slightly. Lower down, on the right, there's an image of the same man, in a blue suit, white shirt, no tie, head down he's looking towards the ground, worried or frowning expression on his face.

Crossing the Line

The image of the book cover for Cross the Lines by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'Madeline thinks she's writing the story. But is she?', and 'The latest from Award-Winning Author Sulari Gentil;'

The image is white, with a red line down the centre and two blocks of handwritten text which is basically illegible - one at the top centre across to the right, and one at the bottom left. The title of the novel is superimposed over the middle of the red line with the red of the line reflected in some of the letters that cross it (the N's in Crossing and Lines) and the

The image has a pale pink background, with the tagline at the top and the author's name at the bottom followed by 'Award-Winning Author'

In the centre there's a face of a startled / frightened woman with longish brown hair and eyes wide open - looking towards the right, her mouth is open and both hands held up to her face. She's looking out from the outline of a laptop on which two black hands are resting, the arms heading off to the right.There's an envelope in outline to the left with words 'A Mystery' written on it.

Crossing the Lines

The book cover for Cutler by David Whish-Wilson includes the quotes 'Sharp and insightful' Sara Foster and 'A ripping page-turner' Tim Winton.

The image is of a fishing net dragging through the ocean, some of visible above a rough sea. The sky above is grey and cloudy, and filled with gulls hovering over the net. The sea is dark grey and choppy.

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.

The book cover for Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont includes the quote 'Dark Arena is as real and as deeply disturbing as a world I once knew' Ant Middleton, former UK Special Forces and the tagline 'The Frenchman Returns'.

The image is of a man standing in a classic stance, holding a gun in his hands, one knee slightly bent, he's in shadow. In the background there's a snowy piece of ground with a few stubby trees and an elaborate building beyond, with minarets on the roof.

The cover of Dark City by John Silvester shows a narrow alleyway with a brightly lit multi-level old building at the end. The alley is in deep shade. There's a male figure standing back to the view in the centre of the alley, the title of the book in large white lettering above him, the tagline 'True Stories of Crimes, Cock-ups, Crooks and Cops' in red lower down.

The image of the book cover for Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel includes the tagline 'In this small town's worst moment, with the community come together - or be driven apart? '.

A night scene of a light up rutted, gravel road with small scrubby bush beside it, the sky overhead is filled with stars.

Darkness Runs Deep

The image of the book cover for Deadly Intent by Laraine Stephens is a drawing of an art deco style 2 story terrace house with elaborate ironwork and a spiked fence. There's a white 1940's style car out the front.

The image of the book cover for Death Holds the Key by Alexander Thorpe is a textured layout with the left hand side being the textured black outline of a man holding a book, a rosary with cross dangling from the same hand. On the right, against a slightly off white background is the outline of an image of a man in a hat, the texture over that image is made up of vines and leaves. At the bottom, over the top of the textured black there's an outline of a handgun, textured in the same way as the man in the hat. The title has a keyhole in place of the O in Holds, and is all in white, except for the KEY, which has the same texture again as the gun / hatted man.

Death Holds the Key

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