Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Jay McCaulay was the only witness to a slick and professional assassination. She saw ex-soldier Sol Neill stabbed to death by a small blonde woman, so when a friend of Sol's - Max Blake - is arrested for Sol's murder, she knows she can't stand back and say nothing.
Determined to...Read more
At 10.42 a.m. on 22 October 2003, while diving on the wreck of the SS Yongala on the Great Barrier Reef, an American tourist photographed his new wife for their honeymoon album. Instead the photo would become a vital police exhibit. On the right-hand side of the shot, Tina Watson's body lay...Read more
The execution of a Mexican drug cartel hit man in a Carlton laneway draws Vic Cavalier to Thailand and back to a past he'd rather forget in this tense, action-packed thriller.
Vic Cavalier has certainly had better weeks. His newspaper editor is hell-bent on...Read more
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again.
On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-...Read more
Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager - as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of twelve. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room.
But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no...Read more
When a fourth child is taken, Solomon Glass knows what to expect: an anonymous letter to the mother, making a promise - kill yourself and your child will be released. He knows because two women are dead already. Glass has just survived his own nightmare - a tragedy, an internal...Read more
In the middle of the night in a remote part of Western Australia's goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried.
Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is...Read more
This intriguing story of murder and deception is set in the lush jungle of New Guinea, during the political turmoil of the late 1960s. The local hotel is where the lives of eight unlikely people intertwine to form a tangled web of intrigue and lies. Four young women. a member of the IRA and...Read more
Beyond high iron gates fastened shut with a length of chain, lies the stark, beautiful Trawbawn. Here, haunted by a dark, mysterious past and largely ignored by the people of nearby Skibbereen, lives the frail Lydia Beauchamp. But old Ma Beauchamp's private existence is interrupted when a...Read more
Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband and left with a four-year-old daughter to support. She finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. She falls under the house's eerie, yet strangely comforting spell, and discovers within herself not only the ability to...Read more
Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set...Read more
Alex Rommel, a debonair Charleston playboy, is skeptical about online dating. When he encounters an old college buddy by chance, he learns his friend has found love over the internet. Tormented by demons from his past, a contentious land deal, the memories of the woman he loved, and his...Read more
Set in the eerie and mysterious landscape of the English fens, the novel follows detective Gilbert Larose as he unravels a complex mystery involving a haunted house and a sinister secret. Gask's writing style is characterized by intricate plotting, vivid descriptions of setting, and well-...Read more
As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, keeps her beloved horse in the hallway, and carries a grumpy, talking cockatoo called Homer on her shoulder. But the island house holds as many secrets as it does animals, and the truth behind Idie...Read more
The daughter of a German mother, and black French soldier, Ingrid has been ostracised all of her life. The rise of Hitler and his barbaric racial cleansing policies has intensified the hatred and prejudice to a frightening new level. When Ingrid is identified as an ”undesirable” she is sent...Read more
The House with the High Wall is a gripping mystery novel that takes readers on a journey into the heart of a secluded mansion hiding dark secrets. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows detective Mark Manning as he is called upon to investigate a series of mysterious occurrences...Read more
She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house.
When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has...Read more
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
Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast. Roy is distant, his friends view her as a gold-digger, and the house still reveres his...Read more
Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there’s a lot of grey between black and white, between legal and illegal and between right and wrong.Read more
The theft of a valuable diamond necklace, and the death by apparent suicide of a notorious film star, have nothing in common. Nothing except Detective Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, scourge of an island’s villains and a deadly match for it unpredictable, unsettling crimes.
At...Read more
Taking on law's old boys club can have deadly results... A gripping thriller from a bold new voice about misogyny, corruption and the legal industry.
Everyone is going to say what a great guy and a great lawyer he was. He wasn't. He was a prick … And a shithouse...Read more
A hilarious, swoony and downright terrifying horror romance in which a cinephile gets caught in the middle of a murder spree at a speed-dating event and must use her encyclopedic knowledge of the rom-com and horror genres to make it as a real-life Final Girl.
...Read more
This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to...Read more
Aimed at anyone who has ever thought about writing a crime novel, this practical guide contains contributions by experienced writers in the genre. Topics include research, fact into fiction, plot and structure, and character. Contributers include Sandra Harvey, Kerry Greenwood and Garry...Read more
A true crime classic, Huckstepp investigates the murder of the charismatic young woman who has fascinated Australians since she first appeared on national television to accuse NSW detectives of shooting her boyfriend in cold blood. Throughout her short life, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp lived a...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
One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks in Footscray, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack has caught her eye – and she his.
How is her life...Read more
A murderous act refuses to stay buried…
Sydney, 1967
When Sarah Stephens cemented her husband Philip under the floorboards of their Sydney home, it was supposed to be a fresh start for her, liberated at last from an unhappy domestic prison.
And everyone knew...Read more
When a plane falls from the sky with no plausible reason as to its sudden demise, it will strike fear into the hearts of people around the world. Put Jake Hudson, the executive chairman of Australia's largest aeronautical corporation, aboard that state-of-the-art plane, and it becomes...Read more