Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Motoring about the countryside in search of inspiration, melodramatist Cyrus Vance runs out of gas at the door of a remote shop. Having filled his tank, he searches for the proprietor, only to discover her dead, himself locked in, and someone driving away with his car. Once he has convinced...Read more
A kindergarten teacher’s escape to Far North Queensland turns deadly when her ex tracks her down just as Australia’s largest-ever cyclone smashes onto shore. A thrilling, suspenseful tale of vulnerability and strength.
In the dripping heat of a rainforest town in Far North...Read more
Working closely with the press, DI Clive Johnson tightens the net around a serial killer who is terrorizing the streets of East London, branding each victim with the sign of the cross to indicate another disciple has been claimed. In desperation, Johnson turns to an FBI criminal profiler...Read more
Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?
Sydney, May 2021. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a young journalist struggling to honour the voices of her community.
When a Year 12 student from...Read more
The dead body of a Buddhist monk is found at the bottom of a cliff early one morning in a small town in Australia’s Far North Queensland. Four months later with the killer still at large, Dusty Kent, investigative journalist renowned for her ability to solve cold cases, is called in....Read more
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
A compelling new series about Dr Dody McCleland, the first female autopsy surgeon. A woman. A doctor. A beastly science. At the turn of the twentieth century, London's political climate is in turmoil, as women fight for the right to vote. Dody McCleland has her own battles to fight. As...Read more
Dixon's European sojourn goes awry when she's arrested for corporate espionage. She's just an innocent Australian teacher working abroad. Or is she? For Dixon, it's a matter of wrong place, wrong time. The investigating officers are convinced she's stolen the navigation and guidance...Read more
At a time when the Howard government in Australia has radically narrowed the national vision, the mainstream media has failewd to notice or to hold it to account. Do Not Distrub offers diverse and enlightening explanations for this failure. Eric Beecher gives reasons for the decline of...Read more
"There's a bullet in my head and it's really messing with my hairstyle…"
Thus begins the second in the new Posthumous Mystery series by best-selling author C.A. Larmer (The Agatha Christie Book Club; the Ghostwriter Mystery series). This time the victim is 27-year-old party...Read more
If you thought your child had just killed you, would you want to know? In this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching DIY posthumous mystery, single mom Lulu implores the reader to help solve her murder before the granny-beckoning tunnel swallows her whole. Did her beloved boy...Read more
Masterful, taut, and atmospheric, this novel of political espionage and intrigue tells the story of a real-life dramatic defection during the 1950s Cold War Evdokia knew that the crowd was here for her. Hunting her. She was certain these people would kill her before they'd let her through...Read more
As a former Sydney detective himself, journalist Duncan McNab intimately knows the world of Roger Rogerson, Australia's most notorious ex-policeman. They trained at the same places, rose through the ranks in the same time-honoured way, and served in some of the same divisions yet Rogerson's...Read more
Transvestite president of the Sex Workers' Union and community activist, Paula Prince, is determined to save Surrey Street, Darlinghurst. Lorraine Lamont wants to develop it; Chicka Chandler won't leave it.
When Paula hires local PI Syd Fish to bodyguard Chicka, it looks like a...Read more
Who can you trust when even the investigators are under investigation?
When a young Asian student is strangled, Nickie Taroney is determined to do everything to help the police. On the case is Detective Terry Dedovic, a man with a messy past looking for redemption. But there is...Read more
The fifth in the Dr Dodi McCleland series - Agatha Christie meets Phryne Fisher Forensic doctor Dody McCleland is horrified when the seemingly dead body of a well-dressed woman she has just sliced with her scalpel bolts upright with a howl. Dody has heard of bodies frozen into a false death...Read more
All is far from well in what claims to be the world's ‘most liveable’ city…
As former British secret service agent Bromo Perkins tries to establish an anonymous life as a travel agent in Melbourne, Australia, he finds himself being blackmailed into resolving...Read more
Some of Australia's most bizarre crimes had their genesis over a seemingly innocent meal in a city restaurant. This is a collection of the best known, written by two of Australia's leading crime reporters, Jennifer Cooke of The Sydney Morning Herald and Sandra Harvey. Colourful racing...Read more
It's 1999. Joel likes suburban life just fine: dole cheques rolling in, hanging out with his best mate, and the future comfortably on hold.
That is, until he lands a job at a smash repair shop.
Under the wing of a charismatic car thief, he learns panel beating,...Read more
‘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
Don’t say his name
Don’t say it thrice
What happens next
It won’t be nice
Tall Harry
Tall Harry
Tall Harry ...
When Detective Stayer takes a job in the...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
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared and is out of hiding and looking forward to the quiet life.
But gold fever is creating ill feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for doomsday by...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
TV star Madeline Shipley is being stalked, but is she really the prey of a psychotic fan? Investigating the suicide of businessman Hayden Delray's wife, Carol receives threats that could be meant to lever her off the case. As she becomes more involved, the danger widens to include her...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
When Jenny McCarthy, a research assistant for a Federal Cabinet Minister is murdered, her husband, Terry, is wrongly imprisoned for the crime. Destiny intervenes and Terry escapes. Whilst on the run he tracks down the leader of the prosecution team, Nicole Evans. He desperately needs to...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
