We All Fall

Myra fell from the trapeze, and then she fell in love. Which one will hurt her the most?

Something is not right at the circus. Since Myra’s accident, there have been an unexplainable number of falls, and a strange, hot wind whispering through the tents.

Then, a new...Read more

Ghostlines

Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist, has stepped on the wrong toes in this cleverly plotted and tightly structured psychological thriller. With his health and personal life deteriorating, Philip is consigned to a suburban newspaper job where he writes trivial filler to...Read more

Down Among The Dead Men

Nepal, 1978. High in the Himalayas, a renegade Chinese agent is brutally murdered while trying to reach the British Embassy in Kathmandu. A Triad revenge killing? Or does the mutilated corpse point to sinister espionage activity that might set the powder-keg of South East...Read more

Fear Fortune, Father

When a technical manager is fired from his job, he is forced to become a thief in order to support his familyRead more

The Alexandrite

Who is the stranger found dead in the woods, outside Pamela Lady Scawton's family home? Why was he carrying a stone that changes colour and a threatening letter?

The quest leads from World War One to the present day and from an English village to New Zealand farmland, to...Read more

Eastern Trade

When Mickey got out of the fiasco that was Lehman Brothers, he thought he had left high-risk finance behind. Now he passes his days driving a London black taxi and filling in with the occasional domestic private investigation.

He is more than happy, until the mysterious Lauren...Read more

African Psycho

Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer...Read more

Common People

"People like to see something different-a king or a notorious criminal, a starving man. Even a dead elephant." "Dead elephant?" Pel nodded. "Plenty have seen 'em alive. Very few have seen 'em dead." Dapper Pel Pelham is pulling stunts again, spruiking for Henri Sapolio, World's Champion...Read more

Doctor Perry

“The sound of the man’s screams changed pitch and Doctor Perry looked up from his notes. Ah, the cranium was shrinking…”

Under the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor swears to remember that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug....Read more

Cutting the Cord

Amira Knox is an assassin. Her targets: affluent Europeans. Her commander: the Authenticity Movement. Her weakness: emotion.

Amira has been loyal to the secret terrorist group the Authenticity Movement for as long as she can remember. Adopted by the leader of the movement as an...Read more

Can You Keep a Secret?

How well do you really know the one you love? 

With her customary page-turning style and potent themes, this is Caroline Overington at her thought-provoking best. 

'Why do some people decide to get married when everyone around them would seem to agree...Read more

Bleak Water

Beyond the new city center developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run down, and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses. But between the renovations it’s a dark and lonely place—the perfect...Read more

A Demon In My View

Arthur Johnson doesn't look like a murderous psychopath; he is a mild-mannered man who has never known how to talk to women.

Years of loneliness has warped his mind, turning his desire for a woman's love and respect into a pathological need for carefully controlled violence....Read more

A Maigret Omnibus

A Maigret Omnibus comprising Maigret Right and Wrong (Maigret in Montmartre & Maigret's Mistake); Maigret has Scruples; Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses; Maigret Goes to SchoolRead more

An Iron Rose

Mac Faraday is a man with a past living a quiet life in the country - until his beloved friend New Lowey is found hanged. Is it suicide?

Faraday won't accept that and starts to ask questions. As Faraday's search begins to uncover chilling secrets, he finds himself thrown back...Read more

Shadow Sister

Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.

Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband's business to her sister's friends, to her fellow teachers. If only those around her could live up to her high...Read more

Days are Like Grass

A beautiful New Zealand summer. An ugly past that won’t stay buried. Paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman has reluctantly returned to Auckland from London. Calm, rational and in control, she loves delicately repairing her small patients’ wounds. Tragically, wounds sometimes made by the...Read more

The Other Mother

Malone, a child of four, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mother. It seems impossible. The school psychologist is the only one who believes him and he's in a race against time to find out the truth . . .Read more

Vanishing Falls

Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She’s also missing. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls…Read more

Dance with the Devil

In the eye of a storm, as Dr Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them.

Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, has stumbled onto her isolated farm in the O’Connor Valley, with no clue to the...Read more

The Wych Elm

One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and...Read more

Crossing Live

New novel in Chris Niles' witty series featuring Sam Ridley, following Spike It and Run Time.When Bruce McCarthy dies soon after reporting that his house is haunted, radio hack Sam Ridley decides to investigate. But he's soon up against forces far more dangerous than the supernatural . . ....Read more

Deadly Tide

Her father is accused of murder …Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper of her father’s fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name.His job is to find out the truth …Brisbane cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his last assignment, goes...Read more

Deathwatch

Written by the author of "Venom", this is a novel set at the end of 1941 on the South Pacific island of Santa Maria, which is still a tranquil idyll in the midst of a world broken by the drunken brawling of its most disreputable citizen, Patrick Corrigan.Read more

Faces in the Rain

Wealthy drug-company mogul Duncan Hamilton is on the run - wanted for the murder of a high class Polynesian hooker. Her funeral, on a wet winter's day, is the beginning of his quest for the real killer. Hamilton's transformation from fugitive to hunter sends him on a dangerous trail from...Read more

Firehead

Firehead is ... a very Sicilian love story by one of Australia's most praised authors and now published into Vintage

Love, blood and pasta over three decades in Brisbane

She used to sell her kisses for caramels; her lips went for long licks of licorice and her...Read more

Friends of Dorothy

After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie think they have found the perfect spot in Grimaldi Square. Despite the rundown pub across the way, the overgrown garden and a decidedly nosy neighbour, number 4 is the house of their dreams. Stevie, a woman who has...Read more

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Fallen Angel

To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions.

Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died...Read more

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