The book cover of The Call by Gavin Strawhan includes the tagline 'A Broken Cop. A Terrified Informant. A Gang That Wants Revenge.' and the note 'Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize' The image is of a rugged looking bag with waves rolling into rocks and sand. The sky is dark and cloudy, and there is a motorbike with no rider standing on the top of a grassy bluff leading down to the beach.
The Call
 
The image of the book cover for The Campers by Maryrose Cuskelly includes the tagline 'You can't choose your neighbours' and the note 'Bestselling author of The Cane'. The image is looking upwards along the end of a house with a couple of lit windows and the hint of a face standing at one. There's a large gum tree behind it, and a bright blue sky with a few clouds and flying birds across it.
The Campers
 
The book cover for The Caretaker by Gabriel Bergmoser includes the taglines 'From the Bestselling Author of The Hunted' and 'She thinks she's safe. She thinks she's alone. She's wrong.' There's a quote at the bottom 'Straight-ahead, no holds barred brutal crime thrillers with an Australian feral tang' The Australian. The image is of the end of a ski lift (where the chairs go around to head back down a mountain) with a few chairs visible, and a wooden shed / control box beside it. Behind that is a view of sky, grey, cloudy, and the hint of hills far off in the distance.
The Caretaker
 
The book cover for The Chasm by Bronwyn Hall includes the tagline 'Every town needs a place to hide its secrets ...' and the quote 'Take a breath and strap in, because you won't put this down until the final page. A stunning debut.' Sarah Barrie, author of Unforgiven on [sic] Gone to Ground' The image is of a swinging footbridge over a heavily treed area, with a figure standing in the middle of the bridge wearing a jacket with the hood up and pants. They are facing away from the viewer, with their head turned slightly. The boards on the bridge are glowing slightly, and the title of the book is imposed over the middle in large red lettering.
The Chasm
 
Image of the book cover for The Chilling by Riley James with the tagline 'Winter in Antarctica. Going outside can kill you. But so can staying in.' The image is a snowy view of somebody rugged up walking away at the top, and a sled or similar at the bottom. It's all in white and grey's, and there are two quotes 'One hell of a ride' Margaret Hickey and 'You won't be able to put it down' Chistian White
The Chilling
 
The image of the book cover for The Company of Rats by Sulari Gentill is an image of an elaborately dressed gentleman in front of a large house, with a very fancy 1940's style car behind him. There are rats around and on parts of the house, and text at the bottom headed Proclamation Plague
The Company of Rats
 
The book cover of The Consequence by Gabriel Bergmoser is from the audio version that has an Only From Audible yellow strip across the bottom right corner. The image is of a red and yellow, firey sky above a suburban street with lit streetlamps and a complicated grid of electricity and telephone wires above. There are cars parked, trees and glimpses of houses.
The Consequence
 
The book cover for The Crag by Claire Sutherland includes the tagline 'Sometimes the truth is just out of reach ...' and a quote 'I devoured this thrilling crime novel ... a gripping, vertigo-inducing read.' Hayley Scrivenor The image is of a female climber hanging from a horizontal rock crag out from the rock wall. She's high up above a lake and flat plain farming land. The sky is cloudy white and grey beyond her.
The Crag
 
The book cover for The Cryptic Clue by Amanda Hampson includes the tagline 'Look who's back in hot water' highlighted by a magnifying glass which is making the look and in hot larger in size. The image is a white background with an orange border. To the left there's a dressmaker's dummy with a geometric shift dress on it. Out of a low down pocket on the front of the dress there's a light stick of explosive.
The Cryptic Clue
 
The image of the book cover for The Darkest Sin by D.V. Biship includes the tagline 'Florence, 1537. Murder on holy ground is ....' (immediately above the title). The background is textured teal, the title in a gothic style black font that takes up the majority of the space, with birds flying to the right of it. Then the additional tagline 'Featuring Cesare Aldo'. At the bottom there is a view of a city with a large, domed basically or church and a tower above a crowded building line.
The Darkest Sin
 
The image of the book cover for The Death Mask Murders by Laraine Stephens is a shot of some stone steps, from the bottom looking up past a wrought iron gate to a cloudy sky. The colour scheme is greys, dark and white.
The Death Mask Murders
 
The book cover of The Dream by Iain Ryan has the tagline 'This ride has no brakes ....' and a quote at the top '... as hard-boiled as Australian Crime Fiction gets' - Sydney Morning Herald on The Strip. The image is of a moving rollercoaster cart which is blurred, running on a pink lighted track line. The title is at the top in very large yellow / orange lettering.
The Dream
 
The image of the book cover for The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale includes the tagline ' Not every secret can be swept away', and the quotes 'Rural noir at its very best.' Candice Fox and 'Stunning! A thrilling debut.' Margaret Hicky The image is of a gravel road winding it's way down the left of a post and wire fence on the edge of a brown paddock with grass blowing in a breeze. There's a windmill and water trough on the right, and hills in the distance.
The Fall Between
 
The image of the book cover for The Forsaken by Matt Rogers includes the tagline ' A Broken Assassin. A Brutal Deception. A War for Redemption.'. The image is red / brown in tone with the end of a large, solid bridge with wires / coming off a hefty brick pillar, which has a USA flag at half mast on the top and a couple of high buildings to the right.
The Forsaken
 
The image of the book cover for The Freezer by Kim Hunt includes the tagline 'a Cal Nyx mystery' and quotes 'Fascinating central character' Karen Chisholm, Austcrimereview and 'tough and incredibly capable Nick Davies, Best Adult Fiction Book, NZ Booklovers Award 2024' The image is a large blue coloured cliff with a darkened overhanging rock.
The Freezer
 
The book cover for Glasgow Smile by Chris Stuart includes the tagline 'The Award Wining Author of For Reasons of Their Own' at the top of a mostly white cover which has a brick wall textured background, blending down to a black banner at the bottom the has the title of the book displayed on it in white lettering. In the centre of the wall there's a painted set of lips, right red in colour, leading out towards the right where they go out of shape and end up a red slash with black stitches across it. There's a woman in black jeans and a short leather jacket standing in front of the lips she has white hair and her arms are hanging loosely by her sides. There's crime scene tape behind here that goes all the way across the image.
The Glasgow Smile
 
The book cover of The Grapevine by Kate Kemp is made up of an old fashioned telephone handset which is orangey/yellow in colour. It's hanging by its cord in front of an elaborate pattern of vine leaves etched out in yellow green and white against a blue green background.
The Grapevine
 
The book cover of The Hitchhiker by Gabriel Bergmoser has a yellow "sticker" on the front that says Bestselling Author, Must-Read Suspense, with part of the book cover and the title of The Caretaker in the middle. There's also a quote at the bottom 'I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery.' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Husbands. The image is of a long, rough country road with electricity poles running alongside it, and a rail crossing right in front. There are fields off to the side, and a car barely visible through the dust it is kicking up. Overhead, a cloudy, grey and white vast sky.
The Hitchhiker
 
The book cover for The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt by Mark Mupotsa-Russell is brightly coloured with blue / green, reddish pink, and red "stripes" across the book angled slightly upwards towards the right. The title is spread across these stripes with the bottom, reddish area being the largest. It contains a tagline 'There's no such thing as an ex-killer' which is printed beside the shape of a black door with the image of a woman holding a knife standing in it. There's a shadow out from there towards the right, and the author's name immediately above the shadow. There are two thin black legs visible to the left of the bottom of the doorway and a puddle leaking out from there.
The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt
 
The book cover for the audio version of The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser includes the tagline 'Nowhere to run Nowhere to Hide'. The image is of a hot, firey red and yellow cloudy sky with nothing but an electricity line running through it and a few birds flying around.
The Hunted
 
The book cover for the audio version of The Inheritance by Gabriel Bergmoser includes the tagline 'She's running from the past ... and she's running for her life', as well as 'Bestselling author of The Hunted'. There's a quote at the top 'A heroine you can't look away from, pure thrills and wallop, wilder and gamer than your average Aussie noir - this is fierce storytelling.' Kyle Perry, bestselling author of The Bluffs The image is of a hot, firey red and yellow cloudy sky over a view of a lit up city street crisscrossed with power and telephone lines.
The Inheritance
 
The book cover of The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson has the tagline 'My untold story of life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines' The cover includes the image of a young woman with a hairstyle that's typical of the 1940's, she's got dark hair and a hint of red lipstick on, she's looking up towards the left hand side of the book. In the background there's a green field with a treeline in the background.
The Last Secret Agent
 
The book cover of The Lodger by Gabriel Bergmoser is from the audio version that has an Only From Audible yellow strip across the bottom right corner. The image is of this silhouette of a male figure standing with his back to the viewer, arms out from his side looking towards an old shearing shed, grain bin and windmill, with a few trees dotted around. The view behind is across a flat plain, the sky above dark purple, fading downwards to yellow and pinkish in colour.
The Lodger
 
Image of the cover for the short story The Lonely Australian of the Asian Night - a short story by Gregory Pakis. The image is of Asian styled temple buildings with elaborate rooflines, against a dusky, darkening sky. There's a palm tree to the left, and everything is very gloomy looking. There's a quote at the bottom "He was sick of his stinky boots."
The Lonely Australian of the Asian Night
 
The image of the book cover for The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers', includes the quote 'A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them.' BENJAMIN STEVENSON author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone 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.
The Mystery Writer
 
The image of the book cover for The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells has a photo of the author sitting on a bench in front of brick wall that has a sign saying 'Walgett Court House 1880 / Office of The Clerk of the Local Court & Chamber Magistrate / Monday to Friday / 9.30am to 1:00pm - 2.00pm (and the rest is obscured)' She is wearing sunglasses, looking towards the right, has a pile of papers in her hands / on her knee with a hat and bag either side of her on the wooden bench
The Outback Court Reporter
 
The image of the book cover for The Prodigal Son by Sulari Gentill is a drawing of an elaborately dressed gentleman and woman in front of a decorated railing. She's seated with a cloth covering her lower body and her arm out, holding a round hoop. He's dressed in a suit and tie, hands in pockets, leaning back against a heavy table. The tagline at the top says 'A Rowland Sinclair Novella'.
The Prodigal Son
 
The image of the book cover for The Quarry by Kim Hunt includes the taglines 'a Cal Nyx mystery' and 'Shortlisted for Best First Novel, Ngaio Marsh Awards 2021'. The image is a quarry, with big earth moving equipment, and a pile of earth / rubble to the right. There's a big, green sky overhead and the whole area is darkish.
The Quarry
 
The book cover for The Safe House by Cameron Ward has the tagline 'Seven strangers seeking refuge. But the danger's already inside ...' and a black circular "sticker" which has the quote 'Fast-paced, gripping and intense' T.M. Logan The image is of a large, very modern styled, multi-level house with huge windows lit brightly. It stands in the middle of a scrubby area up on a hill. Behind the house the sky is just like it would look if there was an incoming bushfire. Red and bright orange / yellow hot, with smoke and cloud swirling together.
The Safe House
 
The book cover for The Shadow Broker by Tina Clough includes the tagline 'Does the Kill List Exist?'. The image is a male figure standing, back to the viewer at the front of a tunnel with a bright light at the end, he's in silhouette.
The Shadow Broker
 

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