Death in a Lonely Place

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 29/10/2024 - 1:25pm by Karen

The book cover for Death In A Lonely Place by Stig Abell includes the tagline 'In a quiet village, secrets stir ...' The image is of a body of still water, deep blue and mauve reflecting the sky above. There's a leafless tree in the middle of the water with birds flying around it, and across the other side there are a row of low purple coloured hills.

In a quiet village, a storm is brewing. Detective Jake Jackson left London for a quiet life in Caelum Parvum. The idyllic country village offers the peace he craves—tending to his chickens, swimming in his lake, and spending long, lazy evenings with his new love, Livia. It’s the perfect...Read more

The Woman Who Knew Too Little

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 24/10/2024 - 2:19pm by Karen

The book cover for The Woman Who Knew Too Little by Olivia Wearne includes the tagline '1948, Somerton, Adelaide. A Dead Man. An unsolved mystery.' at the bottom with the title of the book in slanted lettering in the middle across the image of a woman in a 1940's style coat with rolled hairdo, a handbag and a hat in her hand. She's walking away from the viewer towards a car with headlights lighting the cobblestone roadway she's walking on. The overwhelming colour is green with a foggy green sky light by a single street light.

1948. An unidentified dead man is found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide. Officer Kitty Wheeler yearns to work the case - but the city's women police are typically assigned to more domestic matters. A wryly funny, sharply observed novel about one of Australia's great mysteries, and the...Read more

The Grapevine

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 18/10/2024 - 4:33pm by Karen

The book cover of The Grapevine by Kate Kemp is made up of an old fashioned telephone handset which is orangey/yellow in colour. It's hanging by its cord in front of an elaborate pattern of vine leaves etched out in yellow green and white against a blue green background.

There are secrets behind every closed door in the Warrah Place neighbourhood, and who killed Antonio Marietti is the biggest one of all . . .

It's the height of summer in Australia, 1979, and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in Canberra a housewife is scrubbing...Read more

No One Will Know

BOOK ADDED: Fri, 30/08/2024 - 7:27pm by Karen

The book cover for No One Will Know (A Novel) by Rose Carlyle has the title down the page in large white lettering with the tagline's 'They're the Perfect Couple / They have the perfect plan / All they need is the perfect victim) interspersed. The background is predominately mauve in colouring with a small point jutting out into calm water, there's a woman standing on the point. There are two yachts moored on the water and a range of hills in the far background. At the bottom there's the line '#1 International Bestselling Author of The Girl in the Mirror'

They’re the perfect couple. They have the perfect plan. All they need is the perfect victim.

Julia and Christopher Hygate have the picture-perfect Gobs of money thanks to their lucrative shipping enterprise, an estate on a secluded island, and a baby on the way.

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Death Under A Little Sky

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 29/08/2024 - 1:21pm by Karen

The book cover for Death Under A Little Sky by Stig Abell includes the tagline 'Sometimes the quietest villages hide the darkest secrets ...' and the quote "Gloriously atmospheric" - Lucy Foley. The image is of a field with ripe grain in it, looking across it to a stand of leafless trees with birds flying around them, grey low hills in the background still and a blue / green cloudy sky above.

A detective ready for a new life…
For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London. But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle – he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect...Read more

The Dead of Winter

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 06/06/2023 - 12:00am by Karen

The book cover for The Dead of Winter by Stuart MacBridge includes the taglines 'The No 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author' and 'Who Do You trust when everyone's guilty?' The image is of a snowy landscape with a small cottage / house in the centre right - there's snow blowing across a fence in front of it, and at the bottom there's a jeep with police markings deep in the snow.

It was supposed to be an easy job.

All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace.

From the outside, Glenfarach looks like a quaint,...Read more

Cutters End

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 06/11/2022 - 4:19pm by Karen

The book cover for Cutters End by Margaret Hickey includes the tagline 'A Desert Highway. A Remote Town. A Murder that Won't Stay Hidden.' The image is looking out across a dry, brown patch of grass with a single, scrubby tree to the left. In the distance there's low bush, and a cloudy yellowish / dusty looking sky.

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterious death on New Year’s Eve 1989 leads to a shocking murder investigation 32 years later...

A desert highway. A remote town. A murder that won’t stay hidden....Read more

Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 05/07/2007 - 7:37pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre with the quote from the Daily Telegraph. It has a pale green background with a yellow plastic / fake duck with a target on it, in the centre of the title.

Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world of the living?...Aye, right.

That was Jack Parlabane's stance on the matter, anyway. But this was before he found himself in the more...Read more