The book cover for The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson includes the tagline 'They keep everyone's secrets ... until there's a murder'. The image is a white background with a blue green / teal border. To the right there's a dressmaker's dummy with a brightly patterned shift dress on it. In the centre there's a burnt edged bullet hole with the text of the book showing through it.
The Tea Ladies
 
The image of the book cover for The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea includes the tagline ' These Sacred Lands hold many secrets' and the notation 'A DI Nyree Bradshaw Novel.' The image is of a striking pink, purple and yellow sky behind a line of bare trees. The sky is reflected in still water in the foreground.
The Water's Dead
 
The image of the book cover for The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline ' Four strangers. A quiet library. The perfect place for murder'. The image has a pale blue green 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 left, her mouth is open and one hand is held up to her face. She's surrounded by the outline of books on a shelf, and her face is superimposed on one book which has been pulled slightly out of the line up by a black arm and hand. There's an envelope in outline to the right with words 'A Mystery' written on it.
The Woman in the Library
 
The book cover for The Woman Who Knew Too Little by Olivia Wearne includes the tagline '1948, Somerton, Adelaide. A Dead Man. An unsolved mystery.' at the bottom with the title of the book in slanted lettering in the middle across the image of a woman in a 1940's style coat with rolled hairdo, a handbag and a hat in her hand. She's walking away from the viewer towards a car with headlights lighting the cobblestone roadway she's walking on. The overwhelming colour is green with a foggy green sky light by a single street light.
The Woman Who Knew Too Little
 
The book cover for Transgression by Roger Simpson includes the taglines 'For Gruesome Murders / A Killer With No Motive / Only Jane Halifax Can Stop Them'. The image is of a bridge heading towards a city skyline overshadowed by the figure of a woman with shoulder length blonde hair, wearing a dark coat. There's a hint of a satchel bag over her shoulder.
Transgression
 
The book cover for Unblessed by Roger Simpson includes the taglines 'A thrilling journey into the dark places where genius, money and murder meet.' and 'A Jane Halifax novel'. The image is of a city skyline with only the tops of the buildings visible, there's fog or mist swirling below. The sky is dark orange and red.
Unblessed
 
The image of the book cover for Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery ' and the quote 'A wonderfully accomplished debut. ... Wightman is a writer we can expect great things of.' Abir Mukherjee The image has a red, textured background shot with gold, there is half the figure of an Asian woman standing on the right, her head tipped slightly down, looking towards the left. There is a large building at the bottom with a tall clock tower in the centre, and the title of the novel has a golden tiger standing in front of the T in Tiger.
Waking the Tiger
 
The book cover of We Are the Stars by Gina Chick has the subtitle 'A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go'. The image is of Gina's smiling beautiful face looking upwards to the right. There is a blurred tree in the background, Her hair is swept back and her shoulders slightly bare.
We Are the Stars
 
The book cover for When It Rains by Dave Warner includes the notation 'A Dan Clement Novel' and 'From the Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction'. The image is looking straight down on a body of water which has a crocodile swimming in it to the right hand side / top of the book. The water is slightly swirly with reeds t the left. The author's name is in large white lettering, and the book title in slightly blue lettering just below that
When It Rains
 
The book cover for Whiskey Lima Golf is a cityscape at night featuring the beehive / New Zealand Parliament building, and a white statue in the foreground. There are bright flashes of colour, blue, red and paler shades reaching out from the bottom of the building.
Whiskey Lima Golf
 
The book cover for [Whiskey Tango Foxtrot] by Cat Connor is a mix up of psychedalic looking colours and shapes in orange and purple, with bright blue being the focus.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
 
The book cover of With Winter Comes Darkness by Robbi Neal includes the tagline 'A terrible accident, a brutal murder, the truth will out ...' The image is a foggy scene in brown tones, with a car, headlights on, heading from the right towards a small brown building that looks to have a light on. There are bare tree branches visible around the edges and behind the house, and the ground under the car is red brown in colour.
With Winter Comes Darkness
 
The book cover for Woman, Missing by Sherryl Clark includes the tagline 'Will her first case be her last?' and the quote 'A pacy race against time that keeps you turning the page.' Vikki Petraitis, author of The Unbelieved The image is of a stairwell with a window to the right tiles, and wooden steps to the left. There's a female figure running up the stairs, she's got blond hair trailing behind her, as is her skirt. She's taking a big step up the stairs and is only partly visible.
Woman, Missing
 

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