A powerful debut novel about two refugees starting over after losing everything
Jovan and Suzana have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their standing as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other. Now working as cleaners in a...Read more
Dad in politics and other stories. - Me an' th' son. -The Dashwoods. - We Kaytons. - The miserable clerk. -On an Australian farm. - Memoirs of Corporal Keeley.Read more
Barwon Prison's maximum security unit, 19 April 2010: Carl Williams is beaten to death with the stem of an exercise bike by a fellow inmate. And so, the last moments of this convicted contract killer and key figure in the Melbourne underworld echoed the rest of his life: violent, chilling,...Read more
Eight different women. One thing in common: serious crime.
A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer and flavourist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate and are victims of serious crime....Read more
When David Byfield sees Isobel for the first time at a party, he decides that he has fallen in love with her. An attractive and successful lawyer, David is being groomed for a political career; his experience with love and intimacy, however, is limited.
Months after the party,...Read more
COMPULSIVELY MURDERING MAO tracks the life of Phillip Coussens from his childhood in a small country town to his life as an investigative journalist and press secretary to the special Minister of State and China Trade, and his seduction by a CIA operative to deliver the fatal move on...Read more
Sometimes the only person you can trust is yourself
Her father is missing. Her estranged husband Dennis is his last known contact. The detective on the case is a man she once loved and turned her back on after a tragedy tore them apart.
Ellie...Read more
After years away from his hometown of Melbourne, Luke Harris is back on track. All he wants is a normal job, his own house and a dog.
But Luke is a man with a past, where life was anything but peaceful and his skills ran to the dark side. A past not easily forgotten – or forgiven...Read more
Frank Bumper Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and leader of a vice squad Australia has ever seen.
Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper's beat from 1938 to 1976 was the most lawless in the land - the mean streets of Kings Cross and...Read more
Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect.
It's 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New Yorkbound, with a full manifest of passengers.
When a dead body is uncovered onboard, it is up to Inspector...Read more
The second collection of stories by Australian writers of crime, mystery and psychic violence, including Alex Juniper, Peter Corris, Claire McNab, Marele Day and Jennifer Rowe.Read more
Popular children’s author Micky Douglas is in trouble. Either he’s incredibly accident prone or someone is trying to kill him. Returning home one hot and sticky Brisbane afternoon, intent on relaxing in a tub of cold water, he finds his bath already occupied by...Read more
Dirty Dozen is a collection of true-crime stories that takes you inside some of the most intriguing and violent cases that have crossed the country.
Paul Anderson's position over the last 9 years as a Herald Sun crime reporter gives him the sources and the information on both...Read more
When Nick Carmody agrees to take the fall for his old friend Danny Grogan, he has no idea what he's setting in motion.
He doesn't know that the path he chooses will be a thousand times more dangerous than the one he's leaving behind.
Or that he will fall in love...Read more
It’s not only the guilty who have something to hide.
When charity worker Cate and website designer Rory, a married couple in their thirties, return from their European holiday, they make a nightmare discovery. Their credit cards...Read more
Girls Like You is an astonishing, searing non-fiction narrative, built on dialogue, character and forensic detail as it tracks the cascade of crimes by six brothers from Pakistan after they arrive in Sydney. In a catalogue of outrages, women are raped and men die. As the net eventually...Read more
A loveless marriage becomes a tangle of hatred … but who is pulling the strings?
Sydney, 1972
When Jane Fenton returns from Australia to her childhood home in England, free from the shadow of her overbearing...Read more
A brutal murder in a town called Treachery? It's a story most journos would kill for, but for Stuart Dryden, it's a major inconvenience. He didn't take the gig at the local rag for its bustling crime beat. He'd sacrifice a career-making story for happy hour at the pub, but not even he can...Read more
A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy new crime novel from award-winning author Alan Carter.
When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an...Read more
A terrible accident burns down a family's life on the same day a murder is committed. From the ashes of these acts comes revelation, darkness, and the truth. Psychological suspense and profound family drama meet in this heartrending and original Australian novel.
1975, Ballarat...Read more
The Driver:
Ahead he could see only the stretch of unending road, on either side brown-scorched plains of dirt and scrub, above it all a soaring blue sky and blinding sun. Desolation that looked, to him, a hell of a lot like freedom. He wasn’t playing by anyone’s rules anymore....Read more
Who can ever truly know their parents?
He was a glamorous heart-throb, a famous American singer performing at the Academy Awards in front of Betty Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Clarke Cable and other stars. In the 1930s, his records were outselling Bing Crosby's.
So...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
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
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter.
It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but...Read more
A married couple launch a deadly plan to find their missing child.
A half-dead man washes up on a Los Angeles beach.
A rookie cop is fired on her first day.
Ryan and Elsie Delaney don’t accept the official line that their young...Read more
Victim ... or killer?
For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high country has been haunted by the horrific murders of five hikers up on Jagged Ridge.
Also found dead near the scene was Bill ‘Creeper’ Durant, a bushland...Read more
When former New South Wales Detective Sergeant Craig Johnson is almost blown apart by a parcel bomb at his front door he, and his partner Charlie, are placed on extended leave. It is suspected that David Boyce, an ex-British Special Forces operative, could be on to the fact that he was...Read more
They don't know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way.
How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year. Fans of Lucy Foley and Lisa Jewell will be gripped by...Read more
Family law judge Kaye Bailey is found murdered in her chambers. Is this the work of a disgruntled complainant? Or an inside job by a jealous colleague? Or is there something even more insidious at the heart of this brutal act?
Detective Jillian Basset is just back from...Read more