Last Fortnight on AustCrime

Pleasing other people is hell. Pleasing herself is a revolution.

The gorgeous, cosy new family drama from the bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison

Will curiosity kill the cat-sitter?

For more than thirty years, Delia Watson was the silent engine behind her husband Charlie's glittering music career - the perfect wife, the reliable rock. Now retired, she is ready for leisure. The universe, however, has other plans.

Sergeant Harper Quinn has returned to her sleepy hometown of Koorinda in search of a quieter life. Until she learns that the town's once glittering waterpark is being reopened, on the shores of its famous Red the place that her little brother vanished into thin air 30 years ago.

And then Harper receives a a body has been found at the park.

Once again, Harper finds her family at the centre of a shocking criminal investigation. This time, she is determined to find her own answers.

Meg Maher thought she was doing the right thing. Now she's on the run.

When a peaceful climate protest ends with a violent explosion in the city centre, every member of the protest group becomes a suspect. The incident is declared a terrorist attack.

But the authorities aren't the only ones hunting Meg.

Jen is seventeen, traveling under her older sister's identity, and married to a bikie. No one knows her real name. No one knows her real age. And no one suspects what she's capable of.

She has a secret. And that secret has a name.

By October 1983, she's executed the perfect crime.

Not with violence—though she's capable of that too. Not with chaos—though she leaves it in her wake.

The birth certificate says one thing. Biology says another.

The adoption is fraud. The mother is erased.

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.

In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life.

This return plunges Clotilde back into the deepest recesses of her adolescence. She reacquaints herself with her paternal grandparents, Lisabetta and Cassanu, members of a powerful Corsican family that reigns over the island.