Australia

‘You and I are going to have a chat. If you hang up, this girl dies.’

Adam Turner works the mid-dawn shift at his local radio station. From 12am to 6am, it’s his job to fill the airtime with old songs, inane chatter, and the occasional talkback caller. It’s a long way from his...Read more

The spur of the moment decision made by the clairvoyant, Edwina Charles, that there would be no tarot reading given that day or any other day for her new client, Esme Peebles, was understandable. Given the circumstances, a sympathetic ear was the most Mrs Charles could offer her, despite...Read more

Alan McQueen, aka Mac, the intrepid hero of Golden Serpent and Second Strike , is a tough, true-blue, and resourceful Aussie. An intelligence agent, Mac spends a lot of his time doing undercover work in south east Asia. Double Back sees Mac putting his life on the line fighting dangerous...Read more

1948 Portvieux City. A scandal photographer shoots a brutally murdered woman through his lens.

But only he can see her.

As the Photographer uncovers the truth about the invisible woman, he delves into the seedy city, where a missing photographer leaves a legacy of lust...Read more

In January 2010 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a business trip and his burnt remains were found in a northern suburb – the wrong side of town – a week later. A police investigation uncovered the shocking truth: Herman...Read more

Set in Queensland, this debut crime novel Double Madness by Caroline de Costa, takes us into a sordid underbelly of psycho-sexual depravity. 

As local residents and authorities in Far North Queensland assess the damage in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasi, a woman's body...Read more

Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London claiming to be Dr Henry Jekyll. Only Mr Utterson, Jekyll’s faithful lawyer and confidant, knows that he must be an impostor – because Jekyll was Hyde.

But as the man goes about charming...Read more

This action-packed adventure novel features unforgettable characters and dark deeds, murder, kidnapping, and drug dealing, in an exotic Asian setting.

Captain Jack Robertson, a senior pilot for Air American, is monitoring the Burmese opium trade when a regional drug lord...Read more

A woman wants her errant husband tracked, an undocumented Cambodian girl is found dead, the city’s two biggest criminal societies vie for power, a loan shark wants his money back, and a corrupt cop is pulling strings from the shadows. It’s just another day in Hong Kong.

Former...Read more

A husband and father is betrayed, a son chases a ghost through the decades, a Russian arms dealer wants his hands on a priceless ruby, a young woman disappears with the keys to the mystery, and a female insurgent fights for her life. The Past and the Present are on a collision course....Read more

Dead girlfriend…check 

Alcohol problem…check 

Gambling debt…check 

Looming death…check 

Jack Andrelli is a private eye. He’s also a booze-sodden, big-mouthed, gambling addict with a death wish. 

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t was just an average crank note found in a beautiful blonde's apartment. The only difference was that this kook left his message plastered on a real dead body. And it was up to Police Lieutenant Al Wheller to pip the crime on the killer. But who would want to murder private eye Nathan...Read more

South Coast Writers Centre, in collaboration with the Black Wallaby Writers Group and Junee Correctional Centre, is proud to announce that the fourth book in a unique initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates has just been released.

Dreaming Inside:...Read more

The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is the talk of Southland. Dreamhunter Grace Tiebold's reputation is in tatters and her niece Laura Hame is in hiding. But the nightmare has only just begun.

Rumours about the government's torture of prisoners have been buried, and corrupt...Read more