The Crag

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 19/09/2024 - 1:27pm by Karen

The book cover for The Crag by Claire Sutherland includes the tagline 'Sometimes the truth is just out of reach ...' and a quote 'I devoured this thrilling crime novel ... a gripping, vertigo-inducing read.' Hayley Scrivenor The image is of a female climber hanging from a horizontal rock crag out from the rock wall. She's high up above a lake and flat plain farming land. The sky is cloudy white and grey beyond her.

Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera, rock-climber Skye discovers the body of a young woman. The body has injuries that suggest a rock-climbing accident, but it's been found more than 5km from the nearest cliffs at Mount Arapiles...Read more

The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 27/08/2024 - 3:11pm by Karen

The book cover for The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt by Mark Mupotsa-Russell is brightly coloured with blue / green, reddish pink, and red "stripes" across the book angled slightly upwards towards the right. The title is spread across these stripes with the bottom, reddish area being the largest. It contains a tagline 'There's no such thing as an ex-killer' which is printed beside the shape of a black door with the image of a woman holding a knife standing in it. There's a shadow out from there towards the right, and the author's name immediately above the shadow. There are two thin black legs visible to the left of the bottom of the doorway and a puddle leaking out from there.

I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's a joke in there somewhere, about ending two men's lives.'

Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things - back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate - but she fled that life and moved home to Australia...Read more

Bone Lands

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 08/05/2024 - 5:30pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti includes the tagline ' A One-Man Police Station. Three Murders. A Past That Will Not Stay Buried'. The image is stark, with bones lying on dry red dirt at the bottom, dry grass above, with a rider on a horse in the centre distance. There's a single scrubby tree and a square brick building to the right. Overhead the sky is dirty yellow and red, heading to dark grey at the top.

'Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?'

1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a...Read more

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One of Us Is Missing

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 30/04/2024 - 2:21pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for One of Us Is Missing by B.M. Carroll is an image of a typical stadium styled plastic seat in blue, with the sign of others around it. There's a set of bright orange headset on the seat. The title is in large white lettering and the author's name at the bottom in slightly smaller text. It's striking in its simplicity.

There's no such thing as safety in numbers ...

Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making it through a difficult year by taking their teenagers, Emmet and Bridie, to their first ever stadium concert. By the end of the night, one of the four has vanished without a trace...Read more