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Australia
Highway 13
A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people.
In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution...Read more
Hindsight
Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price.Determined to regain her independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to save hers....Read more
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Hindsight
Cass Lehman has a terrifying ‘gift’... She sees what others can’t...
Cass Lehman had the misfortune of being born into a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents. Her mother sees the future, her grandmother is a healer and Cass has the less sexy...Read more
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His Natural Life
AKA:
For the Term of His Natural Life
Foreshadowing the nightmare visions of the twentieth century in which evil is perceived as central to the condition of man, His Natural Life is a novel of startling power and originality.
It is the greatest novel to come out of colonial Australia and pinpoints with...Read more
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Hit
Makedde Vanderwall has her PhD and she has started a new life in Australia with her detective boyfriend, Andy Flynn. To scrape together extra cash to start her first forensic psychology practice, Mak begins working part-time for an infamous Sydney PI.
With a knack for...Read more
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The Hitchhiker
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
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Hits And Memories
Underworld executioner Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became a bizarre celebrity as his autobiography "Chopper From the Inside" became a bestseller. Six months later he was back in jail writing his second volume...Read more
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The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt
I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's a joke in there somewhere, about ending two men's lives.'
Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things - back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate - but she fled that life and moved home to Australia...Read more
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Hoddle Street
People said it could only happen in other coutnries. But they were wrong. A nineteen year old who wanted to be a hero, but was found wanting during military training, shattered the myth that Australia was different. Armed with rifles and ammunition, Julian Knight murdered seven and injured...Read more
The Holiday Murders
If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe...Read more
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Hollow Vengeance
When actress-detective Tessa Crighton visits some old friends, she finds herself caught up in a local murder mystery and believing that the chief suspect is innocent, embarks on her own investigationRead more
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Holy Death
Murder. Arson. Revenge.
Detective Inspector West investigates the grisly deaths of two elderly priests: one in a suspicious fire; the other obviously murdered.
The inspector is not the only one hunting the priest killer.
If you like murder mixed...Read more
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Holy Parrot
Angel A’s bold second novel, after Mary Poser, chronicles Australian research student Leonard Lumière’s head-spinning time in Buritaca, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, and a case of parrot-proclaimed divinity. Maria Santos, sixteen and claiming to be a pregnant virgin seeks refuge in Leo’s...Read more
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Home Before Night
As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8pm to get to their homes. Wherever they are when the curfew hits, they must live for four weeks and stay within a 5km radius. When Lou’s son Samuel doesn’t arrive home by nightfall she begins to panic....Read more
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Home Truths
Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury have reached a verdict.
Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children, Heidi and Noah, round out a happy family until the day Scott's brother dies.
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Homecountry
It is 1987 and Peter Clancy, hard-drinking Melbourne Truth journalist, returns to his hometown to settle his mother’s estate. Peter’s two-day visit to Clarke’s Flat stretches to eight as he is unwillingly drawn into the sinister secrets of this outback Queensland town. Peter’s childhood...Read more
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The Honest Assassin
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
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Honeymoon Dive
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
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The Honourable Assassin
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
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The Hope
The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what's left of human knowledge, hiding the...Read more
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Hope
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
The Hope Flower
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
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And Hope to Die
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
Hot Ground
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
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Hotel of Secrets
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
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The Hourglass
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
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The House at Number 10
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
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