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Crime Fiction

Contest

Contest is the first book written by Matthew Reilly, and it has become one of the most sought-after books of all time. Since its original self-published print run of 1000 copies in 1996, Contest has been updated with 17 extra pages of new content for the Pan Macmillan Australian release in...Read more

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The Controller

One man's courage could save man's best friend...

Pete is trying his best to get on the right side of the tracks. Dog-napping spoiled pets for ransom money seems harmless, and he could really use the cash. All he has to do is locate targets with his drone and...Read more

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The Convict Stain

Late January 1985 Dame Kiri is launching Vukovich Sauvignon Blanc on the Sydney Opera House steps with major shareholders the Delaney family present. The American nuclear warship the Buchanan is in harbour for ANZUS exercises and protesters are out in force, among them Ali Delaney and her...Read more

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Conviction

A town ruled by fear. A cop who won't be broken. A pulse-pounding debut thriller that pulls no punches.

Queensland in 1976 churns with corruption. When Detective Ray Windsor defies it, he is exiled deep into the state's west. It's easy out there to feel alien...Read more

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The Convivial Codfish

Sarah Kelling and new husband Max Bittersohn are called in by Jeremy Kelling when his Great Chain of the Convivial Cod vanishes. The emblem represents his great achievement, the office of Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. When...Read more

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The Cook of the Halcyon

Two deaths, the suicide a newly laid-off worker and an unscrupulous businessman found murdered, leads Inspector Montalbano to inspect the Halcyon, a nearly abandoned mysterious ship with no passengers.Read more

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Cooking the Books

Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar corporate theft). Jason, her baking offsider, has gone...Read more

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Cooper Bartholomew Is Dead

Cooper Bartholomew's body is found at the foot of a cliff.

Suicide.

That's the official finding, that's what everyone believes. Cooper's girlfriend, Libby, has her doubts. They'd been happy, in love. Why would he take his own life?

As Libby searches...Read more

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Coorparoo Blues and the Irish Fandango

Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds of mayhem, and Brisbane’s once quiet...Read more

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Cop Killer

A woman is found dead in Anderslöv, a small village in southern Sweden. While Martin Beck investigates her murder, his colleague Larsson becomes embroiled in the hunt for two men responsible for the death of a policeman during a shoot out on the open road. Are the two cases related?Read more

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Cop Out

Bryce Darcy, partner in a successful family business, has been murdered. His sister has confessed and DI Carol Ashton is informed that it's a shut case. Yet, Carol discovers that the dead man was a member of a support group for married gay men, and that the Darcy family seethes with secrets...Read more

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Cop This!

In 1969 a home-made bomb explodes in the sleazy heart of Brisbane's Fortitude Valley, killing eleven people and igniting a controversy that could threaten the government itself. When small time criminal Johnny Arnold is charged, his fight for justice sets two men - father then son - on a...Read more

The Copyart Murders

Blake Knox, a young Australian working on his novel in France, ­finds himself in a police cell, caught up in a crime that echoes scenes from his own manuscript. As Inspecteur Sauveur pores over the details of the case, the facts ceaselessly point to the author. Blake’s secret liaison with...Read more

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Copycat

'As he stared down at her, she managed to reach up and scratch his face, feeling the skin slide under her nails, feeling her own skin being greased by a spurt of his blood. Her other hand reached up and found the binoculars around his neck. She thumped them against his head, and thumped...Read more

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Corazon

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Core of Evil

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Still Waters

I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers ... we evaluate them, trying to determine whether they have actually changed, or whether there's still a core of evil within them...

Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark...Read more

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The Coroner

Jenny Cooper is recovering from a bitter divorce. Her husband has custody of their teenage son and Jenny suffered a breakdown. For fifteen years she worked as a lawyer in family court; a job that was emotionally and physically draining. When she is offered the position of coroner for the...Read more

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The Coroner's Conscience

Louise Genson is a beautiful merchant banker. She has everything to live for. But her dead body is found in her beloved Le Mans Jaguar at the bottom of Sydney Harbour. The coroner begins what promises to be a sensational enquiry.

In her brief career Louise has moved from...Read more

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The Coroner's Lunch

Meet Dr. Siri Paiboun, the reluctant national coroner of Laos.

Laos, 1975 - The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-two-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job,...Read more

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Corporate Bodies

Charles Paris, the often out-of-work actor who is one of the most beloved characters in all of crime fiction, takes on perhaps his most unlikely performing assignment ever in Brett's wickedly witty story. 2 cassettes.Read more

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Corporate Truth

From inside his high-rise office, ruthless sociopath Justin Truth surveys his panoramic view of New York City.

This is his city. His country. His America.

Justin is on a mission to conquer the corporate giant, Soda-Cola. He will threaten, backstab, manipulate,...Read more

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A Corpse At Least

Because of a never-healed quarrel between Mike Langard's father and grandfather, 'Bregal' the house situated on the edge of large mangrove swamps, had lain empty for many years.

Now his grandfather was dead, and Mike had arrived in Gnarkona to take possession. To his astonishment...Read more

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A Corpse at the Opera House

The third collection in the Crimes for a Summer Christmas series, featuring stories by 14 Australian writers, including Elizabeth Jolley, Marion Halligan, Peter Corris, Brian Castro, Marele Day and Jean Bedford.

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The Corpse Flower

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. And then she receives the first in a series of cryptic letters from an alleged killer.

Anna Kiel is wanted for murder but hasn't been...Read more

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The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

On Groundhog Day, Professor Peter Shandy digs into the past, bizarre circumstances around a century-old corpse. Peter is helped mostly by Ottermole and Cronk, with appearances from Grace and Phil Porble.Read more

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A Corpse Won't Sing

World-famous singer Polly MacMurtha had given many people strong cause to hate her, and most of them were present at her first recital on her return to Australia after fourteen years abroad.

Small wonder, then, when Polly was murdered during the interval, that Superintendent...Read more

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Corpsing

A very hip, intelligent thriller set in London in the interweaving worlds of t.v., fashion, acting and the restaurant business. The narrator, Conrad, is telephoned by his ex-girlfriend Lily (a model/ actress), by whom he has been dumped six weeks before. He jumps at the chance to have...Read more

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The Corrector

Be careful who you cross.

Evin leads a quiet, orderly life as a classic motorcycle restorer in a small seaside town. Until she witnesses a gang-affiliate’s nasty little secret. A body washes up on the coast several days later, dragging her further into a...Read more

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The Cost of Silence

Norman Widnes was the kindest nurse his invalid wife could wish for, but Norman was so pleasant to everyone—a blameless shopkeeper in a quiet town. The murder of Emma Widnes shocked everyone, and soon skeletons could be heard rattling in the most unlikely cupboards.Read more

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