Sorted on book title (not in series order)
When several small-town locals die under mysterious circumstances, an aspiring journalist is determined to prove the connection between them, only to discover the dangerous secrets they left behind.
Boney Creek is a dying town where not a lot happens. The...Read more
When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there - both black and white -...Read more
On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'. "That's the place Zane Grey wrote about," remarked my son. "That's the place I'm looking for," I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. The air like wine and as cool as that in the green ferntree depths of the gully beside my...Read more
A woman is slain and her young daughter has vanished deep in the Australian outback. It is up to Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte to discover whether Ole Fren Yorkey, a half-crazed wanderer, is a killer and solve this dangerous riddle. Only in the weird land of the willi-willi and the...Read more
Tucked away in the mountains of NSW is Cork Valley, inhbited by an odd lot of hard-drinking Irishmen. Here a government officer, looking for illicit "stills", has been murdered, and it's Napoleon Bonaparte's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief the famous half-aboriginal...Read more
Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange 'bad boy' Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight,...Read more
Tucked away in the mountains of NSW is Cork Valley, inhbited by an odd lot of hard-drinking Irishmen. Here a government officer, looking for illicit "stills", has been murdered, and it's Napoleon Bonaparte's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief the famous half-aboriginal...Read more
One Sunday morning in Buenos Aires, a struggling writer finds himself tangled up in the story of Luciana, a former authors' assistant whom he has not seen for at least ten years, & Kloster, a rival writer. What he discovers will make him question everything he had always taken for...Read more
‘Murder, she felt fairly sure, was not the kind of “Purpose of Visit” calculated to speed her through immigration.’ Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the “Teen Dreams” series?
It couldn’t have been the freak accident it first appeared — Penny’s...Read more
A romantic adventure and suspenseful thriller, Anna Porter`s The Bookfair Murders delves into the gripping world of the book publishing industry. When one of the top editors from a major publishing house is murdered at a book fair in Frankfurt, two old friends find their worlds collide....Read more
“When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. People warned us that e-readers were taking over. People warned us that we’d never compete with the evil Amazon. The one thing they didn’t warn us about was the murders…”
Introducing......Read more
When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn’t warn us about was the murders . . .
The Bookshop Detectives are on the case!
In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff...Read more
Boom and Bust is a violent hard-boiled crime novel about a man forced into acts of desperation and depravity by debt. He is over-committed in the property market and is changing careers to have a crack as a real estate agent just as the Global Financial Crisis is about to hit. His timing...Read more
A British gambler risks his life and fortune in a gold mining scheme in Australia.Read more
Captain Morgan Pentland flies for Border Watch, patrolling the vast Australian coastline. With steely determination, she s fought hard to reach this point in her career, but her private life is a shambles. Will she ever break the tragic patterns of her childhood? Customs agent Rafe Daniels...Read more
When the corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the border between the north and south of Ireland, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is tasked with heading the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph left where she died....Read more
Seven missing. One dead. No hope.
The Australian outback is beautiful, idyllic, peaceful, and all Detective Bo Campbell has to do is fit in.
Within a day of his arrival, however, he's asked to cover up the murder of a local Aboriginal woman found...Read more
For on the skeleton's finger is a beautiful emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most powerful - and most evil - woman of the Renaissance.
Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead.
For DCI Jack Pendragon - newly transferred from...Read more
He was a hard-nosed journalist who used the horseracing world to fund his stories on police and political corruption. A little knowledge can prove to be a dangerous thing, however, and the opportunity to dummy fraudulently an unraced horse’s background shows Jim Codling that the...Read more
Hurrying out of St Monkey’s church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy’s corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he’s ever known.
His casebook is full to bursting: retired colonial Mrs C. demands to know how the boy got there; Gallie, the Mutant from Outer...Read more
Isabel Diaz is set to be the first woman to win the White House. But her chances plummet when a Muslim protege is accused of syphoning funds to terrorists and, seemingly unrelated, an Australian software whizz is tossed off a London skyscraper. Then, when a TV journalist digs up a dark...Read more
A car accident during a holiday in the Middle East lands Faraday in a hospital packed with the maimed from Gaza, where he embarks on a wild scheme to adopt a horribly burned Palestinian girl. Back in England, crimelord Bazza McKenzie is watching his empire fall apart under the pressures of...Read more
After months of researching butterflies in Sāmoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn’t arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he...Read more
After a request from one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, Luciana, part-time model and full-time prostitue, agrees to model for the central figure in Botticelli's masterpiece 'La Primavera'. But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively...Read more
A binding alliance. New threats, and a disturbing discovery ...
Bound in a life-saving arrangement, Valerie is drawn even closer to the same people she is trying to escape. She finds a strange comfort in becoming part of Blake's family, but her safety comes at...Read more
A brutal home invasion shocks the nation. A man is murdered, his wife bound, gagged and left to watch.
But when Detective Sam Shephard scratches the surface, the victim, a successful businessman, is not all he seems to be. And when the evidence points to two of Dunedin's most...Read more
Winner of the 2009 David Unaipon Award
Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane's West End marked the city's boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark.
When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar...Read more
He has no past.
And he may have no future.
His memory is blank.
He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip....Read more
A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:
Jason Bourne
Reenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes...Read more
