Welcome to an Aussie town where the violence is rampant and the humidity’s hell
Ben doesn’t like being a nude model in a small country town. Then again, the local footballers don’t like their girlfriends ogling Ben.
Broke and desperately lonely, Ben...Read more
Addison Harper is back, and with another dead body at his feet. Only this time, the entire town saw it happen.
Milverton is in the running for the Terrific Town Award, so a dramatic death at the opening ceremony is far from ideal. Addison had only been lending...Read more
Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist.
Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy English town so he could leave his former violent life behind.
He soon learns that past transgressions have a way of catching up with you.
When hired killers...Read more
An imposition. An insult. And a dead poet.
When the Literary and Historical Society decide to hold their end of year event at Wingate Hall, it's the last thing Emma needs.
With her husband missing in action and the weather worsening, she's forced...Read more
A new day has dawned, and Little Crick is out for revenge. Having discovered the sinister truth of his truelove’s demise, he is hell-bent on punishing those he holds responsible. Yet he is about to discover that the plot goes deeper and involves more players than he at first ...Read more
Silence is safe. Avoidance is comforting. Until it gets you killed.
Mac has spent his life hiding behind his disability. Added to that, he's struggling to find his identity as a freckled redhead in a family of black haired, brown skinned Du Roses.
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t’s not just a rippling ‘scam’ job. Has Australia been infiltrated at levels they’ve never known?
Elaina Williams uses a Cobra Pose in her Yoga studio to boost her energy – she will need it! Elaina’s father, Edward, is in trouble. He’s disappeared.
As a solicitor...Read more
When brilliant but emotionally-tortured New York journalist Bec Corelli learns her father has died mysteriously on vacation in India, she walks out on her job and heads to Delhi. Pharmaceutical CEO Ernst Reiniger, facing ruin over a failed drug, has hatched a chilling plan to save his 300-...Read more
When DS Theo Fleming is called back from leave to attend a crime scene, he has reservations. The victim is a geologist who had been researching long-disused copper mines on land whose title is disputed by local Māori. Given the complexity of tribal politics and distrust of the police, Theo'...Read more
A stalker that will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Sometimes, lying is easier than telling the truth, but it can lead down a dangerous road.
Terrance Tiller is on a quest to prove Mark Wentworth's innocence. He thinks he knows who framed Mark for the...Read more
Murder or suicide? Alex’s freedom depends on the answer and time is running out.
Devastated by her husband’s so-called ‘suicide’, Alex insists someone had murdered him. Her doctor and the police think she’s crazy and send her to a psychiatric clinic. Drugged to...Read more
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Following their release from prison, ex-convicts seek to recover their ill-gotten gains from a financier, Peter Lee. Both Alex West and Peter Lee disappear. Richard West does not know if Alex is alive or dead. Richard and business partner Derek Poulton hire Claire Bishop but is Claire...Read more
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Sarah’s life is about to be turned upside down. As the blossoming fashion designer’s best friend suddenly disappears, nobody is able or willing to provide any answers. Completely out of her depth she turns to the Neon Lights, an underground resistance group, but will the price for their...Read more
Poor Little Crick, he is a penniless orphan cast upon the cruel world of 19th Century Kirkshire, with the face – no less – of a pretty girl. Yet he is cunning, he has a fire in his belly, and he has the wiles to become anyone he a swooning lady in a drawing room, a cheeky harlot in a...Read more
A seemingly foolproof plan to make some quick money turns into a race for their lives…
It’s the mid-nineties and methamphetamine casts its shadow over the Californian city of Santa Lucía. Nathan, happy running a small marijuana grow operation with his two best...Read more
On a bitter winter’s night in Pine Creek, 1989, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed.
It’s the last time she will see him alive.
In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching...Read more
Hidden in the dense bush of the Manawatu, a tiny skeleton lies overgrown with weeds. DSS Archie Baldrick and DC Ben Travers discover that the victim is a young child who went missing from a rural skate park twenty years earlier. Who could possibly have abducted Lukas Branson and kept him...Read more
A murdered author. Six suspects. Who’s next?
Lexie discovers the body of bestselling crime novelist, Beth Weaver, and finds herself at the top of the inspector’s suspect list.
Top of Lexie’s list are the three couples who are Beth’s only neighbours on the isolated...Read more
Flames crackle and stability just went up in smoke.
When Elizabeth’s happy new life goes up in flames and mortal danger is knocking down her door once again, she struggles to stay sane. Only when she falls into the trap her aunt’s killer has set for her does she realize the danger...Read more
What was Lucy hiding? Why has she no family or friends? As the number of suspects mounts up, Archie begins to conclude that the real answer lies in Lucy’s dark and mysterious past, and that the murderer may be just a little too close for comfort....Read more
97 year old Alice Atkinson has many ghosts in her past, but she never expected to see this one walk past her in the street.
She doesn't have much time to think about the past though as her friend Teresa asks her for help. She thinks someone is breaking into her apartment and...Read more
It all unraveled at the funeral...
Horace Reid's death opened the door to our freedom. His widow, Elizabeth, exists only on paper. She disappeared thirty years ago. It's us, the Tribe, who live in her body now. But nobody knows that. Us are Elise, the reluctant...Read more
If old age doesn't get her..the murderer will.
97 year old Alice Atkinson should be comfortably living out her days at the Silvermoon Retirement Village. But she's bored. A lifetime of living in the grey area between right and wrong means that winning money off her friends at...Read more