Walk softly, and carry a very big stick …
DI Adams fled London to escape bridge-dwelling monsters and magical toasties – a one-time experience she's in no hurry to repeat. She’s police, not some cryptid hunter.
Leeds has other plans, though.
Tasked with the...Read more
A thriller set on the streets of Bangkok.
In Bangkok anything – or anyone – can be had for a price.
Two days after private eye Mason sees a drunken Australian kicked to death in Bangkok’s notorious Soi Cowboy, he is approached by one of the men involved. Mobster...Read more
Zachary de Graff is a cold-blooded South African killer operating in Australia at the behest of an unknown paymaster. He tortures his victims in the most horrifying ways, before dumping their bodies in incongruous locations across the country.
Detective Birgitte Vestergaard...Read more
Glitz, Glamour, and Deadly Decisions
Every decision has a consequence. Some can be deadly...
Lily Cartwright has been trained to obey and protect her criminal father, but deep inside her anger grows. The chains of duty shatter when she learns of her father's plans to...Read more
A village, isolated by a severe storm, and a young officer, alone and out of her depth. A troubled priest is brutally murdered, leaving behind a journal of the resident's confessional secrets; secrets certain people would prefer he took to the grave.
As word spreads, the pressure...Read more
When Kenny backs a winner at the races his life turns upside down. A holiday in Thailand turns into a nightmare when he tangles with the Triads, leading to murder, maiming and a mad dash with a bag of cash to a drug-running middleman on the border.
Chasing the Dragon...Read more
Music promoter Billy Lime is in trouble.
The tour of rock legends, The Pagan Virtue, is the biggest in music history. Their concerts in Australia should be a career highlight if Billy can keep the warring musicians off the drugs, out of the bars and on the stage.
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Linda's had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won't tell her what he did with her body, and she can't find the stupid thing herself. There's only one thing she can do...Read more
Reece Pocock, crime writer, said Boris of Adelaide - has great insight into human affairs and a powerful imagination, and in this engaging set of short stories he turns his observant eye on many facets of human behaviour. A man attempts to escape from his paedophile father in the only way...Read more
The Ultimate Life? Or the Ultimate Lie?
Alice Parker’s zest for life is contagious. When she’s not working in her father’s bar in London, she’s out partying with her friends. Some might say she is having too much fun.Read more
As a final year Law student Gilbert Hastings and Lucille Dellow take a holiday job to renovate the Old Stone House in Arbor Valley. The owner of the Old Stone House, Elsie Leggat has moved into a rest home and has been persuaded to sell her house by a corrupt Nadine Norton. Nadine has a...Read more
A man on fire, a self-imposed lockdown and a badly timed love.
When introverted junior architect Estelle says no to the annual holiday, her family become even more disgruntled with her than usual. Choosing solitude over a five star, eight-week international trip means even co-...Read more
Dead Man’s Pose is a tension-reliever in yoga. Not this time!
The relaxation goes further than expected. One of Elaina Williams’s yoga students dies in her class. Was the victim helped into Dead Man’s Pose? Behind the scenes, there’s a coverup threatening to unravel Elaina’s...Read more
Someone has plans for Carmen Minelli ...Attaining a senior position with eminent stockbrokers J. D. Ford & Co. is a major coup for the bright, ambitious and beautiful Carmen Minelli.Carmen soon discovers the fi rm has a client with a dubious background and seeks to end the relationship...Read more
Boom and Bust is a violent hard-boiled crime novel about a man forced into acts of desperation and depravity by debt. He is over-committed in the property market and is changing careers to have a crack as a real estate agent just as the Global Financial Crisis is about to hit. His timing...Read more
He's a trained killer. She's a refugee. Art unites them.
Together they're unstoppable, but who's saving who?
New Zealand's Banksy hides in plain sight, despite the frenzy surrounding his anonymous art. Lieutenant Jack Jethro retired from the army...Read more
The flames consumed everything. They licked the weatherboard walls of Peter Halliday’s shed and nibbled at the timber lining boards stacked in the rafters. They blackened and eroded the kiln-dried hardwood studs that formed the skeleton of the walls. They lapped at the pools of oil on the...Read more
Ambitious criminal defence barrister Robyn Palmer gets her first big break when she's briefed as junior counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Unfortunately, her leader has lecherous designs and their client looks guilty as hell. However, nothing is going to stop her starring in the...Read more
Mitch Walker's week starts strangely enough when, half drunk, he finds himself intervening in an armed robbery. The bizarre outcome of this encounter does nothing to prepare him for what lies ahead in the coming days. Heart breaking events lead him down a dangerous path into the ruthless LA...Read more
Where is the mail order bride?
Summer 2019 in New Zealand. On the last day of a backpacking holiday, Kate loses her bag on a vineyard tour and misses her flight home to England. An eccentric elderly man comes to her rescue and invites her to stay on as his paid...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
When Detective Matt Allenby arrived in the hamlet of Taylors Crossing in the hills near Perth in Western Australia, to investigate the murder of one of the town's inhabitants, he thought it would be a straightforward case. He didn’t expect the locals to have secrets of their own, which...Read more
A book of kindness, a diary, full of inspirational quotes, poems and short funny stories. * contains naughty words, like swearing and shit!* kindness, the dictionary defines it as a quality, for being gentle, caring and helpful.Read more
A murder mystery set in Brisbane, Australia: Catching a serial killer won't be easy when nobody suspects murder...
One thing is stopping Jono from loving his job as a paramedic. It’s not the blood and gore, nor the vomiting drunks, not even the seemingly endless rolling shifts...Read more
Edwina’s death is brutal, a swift and silent killer who leaves no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through the dead woman’s childhood.
Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, Edwina was a...Read more
When soon-to-be-wed Tanya Clark is confronted with her fiancé's naked corpse hanging from a wardrobe rail in the upmarket Melbourne apartment they share, her life is torn apart. Two months later, distraught and unable to cope, she drowns her sorrows in a lethal cocktail of alcohol and...Read more
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
Nineteen-year-old Melissa and her three friends, Katrina, Belinda and Alison, take up an offer of work for the Christmas holidays on Melissa’s uncle’s tomato farm on Waiheke Island. The girls can’t wait to swap their university days for the carefree life, summer provides. However, Melissa...Read more
When a backyard dare to discover the source of a fabled waterhole uncovers human bones, small town detective, Marley West, leaps at the chance to kickstart his stalled career. But it’s more than two decades since developers filled the Cowaramup creek. The woman who owned the land—the Ross...Read more
Time for me to go on the prowl again. Oh, the glory of it. Two long months I've waited since Brenda Livingstone's demise. This is what fills my life. Watching, waiting, then partaking in the pleasure of what I have become. A serial killer.
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A second body of a young...Read more