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Being invisible is hard, but it's PERFECT if you want to be a detective.

Meet Fleck Parker: Mother, Crafter and Amateur Detective.

Fleck loves a good puzzle. She spends most of her time feeling invisible, caring for three small children, and that's fine, really. But it...Read more

We're Not Us Without You

Four friends. One secret. And the cult that could burn them all.

High school friends Lani, Tim, Maya and Stig were inseparable until an unthinkable act shook the group. Now in their thirties, three of the friends are still close while Stig has disappeared...Read more

Signs of Damage

It was as if the present and the past were a spider’s web, wherein a shock to one strand could make the whole structure shake.
 
The Kelly family’s idyllic holiday in the south of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She’s...Read more

After The Fall

Fleeing Melbourne for a village in the Yorkshire Dales had felt right. Sanctuary, I’d thought.

But nowhere is as straightforward as it first appears.

When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought...Read more

Panic

BRONTE NEEDS A PLACE TO LIE LOW.

She posted a drunken rant that went horrifically viral. Now – jobless, friendless and broke – she’s forced to volunteer as a carer on an isolated rural property. She won’t be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at least she’ll...Read more

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The Mandalay Protocol

A missing girl. A country torn by war. And a man haunted by the demons of his past.

Kidnap negotiator Bishop knows the stakes when he’s sent to the jungles of Burma to find a missing Canadian girl. But his search uncovers a dark secret that could shatter the...Read more

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective

A missing maid. A murder most foul. A highly imprudent adventure. Only her fine eyes can uncover the truth.

Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother's country estate within an easy ride of Mr and...Read more

Macca

Matildas fever swept across the country during the 2023 World Cup campaign, filling stadiums beyond capacity, uniting communities and inspiring the next generation of world-class athletes. In one of the iconic ‘where-were-you-when’ moments in Australian sports history, the Matildas...Read more

Death in Black and White

High in the stand at the MCG, the Holloway family settle in to watch their beloved Carlton play the might Collingwood Magpies. A beautiful winter's day, their son Alfie playing happily at their feet, and always the promise of victory; for Harry and Effie, life seems very agreeable....Read more

Taken In

Effie Davis is a modern young woman, educated and independent. And for a free-spirited woman in Melbourne in 1896 there is much to fight for ..... causes like universal suffrage and equal pay for women. But Effie's principles and beliefs become far more than academic when a chance meeting...Read more

The Housemate

Three housemates.
One dead, one missing and one accused of murder.

Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade.

Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became...Read more

The Devil's Caress

The fourth in Dark Passage’s reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil’s Caress , originally published in 1952, is an tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne.Read more

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The Battle of the Generals

With the fate of Australia at stake, the two great Allied generals of the Pacific War face off against the Imperial Japanese Army - and each other.

12 March 1942: The Japanese have swarmed the Philippines, forcing US general Douglas MacArthur to flee with his...Read more

He Went Back for His Hat

A judgement to remember.

Having escaped the lions’ den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.’

Justice Michael Lee with an introduction by Chanel Contos

On 15 April 2024 Justice Michael Lee delivered his judgement...Read more

The Pool

Prince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is missing. Nine years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that fateful day marriages fractured, friendships crumbled and lives were upended.

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Unfinished Business

Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at last—by any means necessary. In the capital, Colombo, tenacious journalist Ameena Fernando is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street near her home, with no witnesses.

With...Read more

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The Call

Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the sleepy little town. Money has been tight after the bushfires, and it’s about to get tighter if they can’t find a way to pay their suppliers to keep their business going and keep the bank from...Read more

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Dish

Every now and then, when the planets align in just the right way, a book comes along that changes everything. An author sweats and toils to birth a tome with such colossal cultural impact, it has the power to retune the entire world to a whole new frequency. This is absolutely not one of...Read more

Murder in Punch Lane

Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a...Read more

I Always Find You

In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moved into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange was going on in the locked shower room in the building’s basement—and the price of entry was just a little blood.

I...Read more

The Campers

An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.

Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours - the...Read more

Cutler

Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a Taiwanese distant water fishing vessel, Cutler realises that the apparent murder he' s investigating points to a slew of much darker crimes.Read more

After You Were Gone

In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn’t a bad mother, just exhausted. When she turns around, her daughter isn’t there.

Six years later, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is constantly not knowing what happened to...Read more

Vanish

People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life - and are never seen again. A chilling thriller from the award-winning and bestselling author of Australian noir, Shelley Burr.

Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison....Read more

The Reunion

Ten years ago, six teenagers hiked into the Blue Mountains wilderness - and only five came out alive.

The survivors have barely seen each other since the tragic bushwalk. Yet when an invitation arrives to attend a 10-year memorial of their friend's death, Hugh, Charlotte, Alex...Read more

Trapdoor

Live streaming now! Trapdoor - Five go in, none come out.

Eva Kavinsky wakes in a dark cellar, with no memory of how she got here. Imprisoned with her, seemingly at random, are four men. The only way out is the trapdoor in the ceiling – and it's locked.

The single clue...Read more

When One of Us Hurts

Port Brighton hates outsiders. The small coastal town has its own ways of dealing with the evil, the foolish, the misled, and it holds tightly to them. But the seams start to split after two deaths occur on the same tragic night: a baby abandoned at the foot of a lighthouse, and a drunken...Read more

I Am The Tiger

In the autumn of 2016 a wave of suicides swept through Stockholm’s underworld…

Investigative journalist Tommy T’s star has faded since he was a fixture on Sweden’s talk-show circuit. His deep dive into the mysterious suicides—and the role of the elusive ‘X’ who seems to...Read more

An Ethical Guide to Murder

How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks:

If you had the power between life and death, what would you do?

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The Forsaken

For ten years, Logan Booth served as a contract killer for the CIA – he just never knew it. The first book in a blockbuster thriller series from Matt Rogers, million copy bestseller and 'a bright new talent shaking up the genre ' (Candice Fox).

In the twilight of his career, Logan learns...Read more

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