Crime Fiction

The Radwick Rangers seem destined for a championship season. Until one of the players is found dead. The mysterious murder turns the dream of victory into a terrifying nightmare.

Soon the rest of the team is being stalked by the killer. . .no one is safe. Stu and his girlfriend,...Read more

The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring.

Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that...Read more

Disgraced former pilot Ted Anderson works for a top-secret government organisation set up to investigate terror-related incidents. Sent to Jakarta to find out as much as he can about the pilot of a vanished Garuda flight, he discovers a flight simulator in the pilot's apartment.

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Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to adjust to civilian life, but at least there's one blessing - he was never...Read more

It had been a normal day at work. Monika was locking up, ready to head home, when the man arrived. She didn't even see his fist until it was far too late...

Bundled into a car, tied up and taken in darkness to an old mill in the thick of a forest, she has been flung into a...Read more

Introduction by Adrian McKinty

Pat Carson’s old eyes were on me, looking for something.

‘Man is born unto trouble,’ he said.

I said, ‘As the sparks fly upwards.’

Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. ‘Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman....Read more

Garner Quinn writes true crime - and very successfully. Her story of the moment involves a madman known as the Holy Ghost, a deranged serial killer who disfigures his victims. When Susan Trevett lives to tell about her encounter with the Holy Ghost, she picks a young farmboy out of a police...Read more

In The Student Body, Simon Wyatt takes the reader on a thrilling journey to catch a killer through his eyes as a former police detective. A popular fifteen-year-old girl is strangled to death at a school camp on Auckland's west coast. The posing of the body suggests a sexual motive. Nick...Read more

In no way do I wish to force your inclinations, my dear Hilda, said Lord Kenny, taking up his favourite position on the hearthrug. I simply point out to you that Sir Richard is rich and Mr. Dacre is poor. Your common sense should tell you which to choose.Read more

This 90s thriller romance moves between the boardrooms of Sydney and the "Deliverance" country of the Tasmanian wilderness.

Heroine Brady Martin, twenty-eight and unemployed, ignites a rebellion among th Tasmanian farmers who are being forced off their land by the banks....Read more

The first of September was a special day for schoolchildren in Beslan, traditionally celebrated as the 'Day of Knowledge'. But after September 2004 the day would be remembered for all the wrong reasons, when a group of terrorists took hostages at Beslan's School Number One.

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Laura McKenzie was elated when she moved into her grandmother’s home on Kawau Island. When she inherited Nan’s cottage, she had no idea she was about to enmesh herself in a full-scale search for the beloved old woman. When Nan disappeared a few months earlier, it was believed that she had...Read more

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

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