Above Suspicion

Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened of detectives. They started eight years ago - now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls identical - all drug...Read more

Diamond Dove

Emily Tempest, a feisty part-aboriginal woman, left home to get an education and has since traveled abroad. She returns to visit the Moonlight Downs “mob,” still uncertain if she belongs in the aboriginal world or that of the whitefellers. Within hours of her arrival, an old friend is...Read more

A Talent for Murder

‘I wouldn't scream if I were you. Unless you want the whole world to learn about your husband and his mistress.’

Agatha Christie, in London to visit her literary agent, boards a train, preoccupied and flustered in the knowledge that her husband Archie is...Read more

Pig's Head

“There are good cops, there are bad cops… and there is Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken.

Pufferfish. Feroxodon multistriatus. (The Ferocious Pufferfish gets its name from its tendency to attack people unprovoked and it has been known to bite the toes...Read more

The Fallen

When local cop Sean Devereaux, who enjoys skating close to the edge, does a favour for his attractive neighbour, he unwittingly exposes a web of deceit and corruption.When local cop Sean Devereaux, who enjoys skating close to the edge, does a favour for his attractive neighbour, he...Read more

The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up

Being invisible is hard, but it's PERFECT if you want to be a detective.

Meet Fleck Parker: Mother, Crafter and Amateur Detective.

Fleck loves a good puzzle. She spends most of her time feeling invisible, caring for three small children, and that's fine, really. But it...Read more

Murder And Redemption

Syd Fielding is on a fishing trip when he hears a horrifying scream ... What he doesn′t yet know is that a young man is being fed to a saltwater crocodile.

So begins MURDER AND REDEMPTION, an absorbing crime novel which follows in the traditions of Jon Cleary and Peter Temple....Read more

Blood Witness

ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION PLUNGES HIM INTO THE VIOLENT WORLD OF MELBOURNE'S UNDERBELLY.

Defence laywer Will Harris is reluctantly drawn into a bizarre murder trial. A terminally ill man claims to have witnessed the brutal crime – in a vision...Read more

Resurrection Bay

Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up telltale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for...Read more

Peepshow

A sassy, sexy and very funny novel introducing Simone Kirsch aka Vivien Leigh, stripper and PI, who is determined to find the real killer of strip club owner, Frank Parisi.

Simone Kirsch aka Vivien Leigh is sexy, funny and intelligent.

And she needs it all as she goes...Read more

Scrublands

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. 

A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend...Read more

The Girl Without Skin

They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified...Read more

A Murder at Malabar Hill

A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.

Introducing Miss Perveen Mistry, the star of an outstanding new crime series. This courageous, likeable and determined...Read more

The Satsuma Complex

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse...Read more

The Brotherhood

Set in Tasmania, Australia, The Brotherhood begins as a respected cop, Sergeant John White, is murdered during a routine callout. As the investigation unfolds through the eyes of the sergeant's colleagues, friends, family, enemies and the murder suspect himself, it becomes clear...Read more

A Time to Run

The hunt is on

A GRUESOME GAME

A madman is kidnapping women to hunt them for sport.

A FRANTIC SEARCH

Detective Janine Postlewaite leads the investigation into the disappearance of Samantha Willis, determined not to let another innocent die...Read more

The Portrait of Molly Dean

An unsolved murder comes to light after almost seventy years...

In 1999, art dealer Alex Clayton stumbles across a lost portrait of Molly Dean, an artist's muse brutally slain in Melbourne in 1930. Alex buys the painting and sets out to uncover more details, but finds there are...Read more

The Great Divide

In the rural Tasmanian town of Dunton, the body of a former headmistress of a children’s home is discovered, revealing a tortured life and death.

Detective Jake Hunter, newly-arrived, searches for her killer among past residents of the home. He unearths pain, secrets and broken...Read more

A Nearly Normal Family

Every murder case starts with a suspect.
What if the suspect is your daughter? 
Would you believe her, or the evidence against her?

The Father
Believes his daughter has been framed...Read more

City of Vengeance

Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth.

Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city’s most feared criminal court, is given four days to solve...Read more

The Beacon

Jack Harris, the disgraced son of Australia's most powerful business tycoon, has just been exiled to Byron Bay as a junior journalist at his father's smallest regional newspaper, The Beacon. His arrival coincides with the disappearance of the newspaper's editor, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, while...Read more

Sinister Intent

There is no pain as the blade slices her skin. She is only conscious of a warm, sticky sensation dribbling slowly down her neck.

Her own blood . . .

For eight years Lexie Rogers has been a uniform cop in Sydney’s red light district, Kings Cross. Having survived a...Read more

The Die is Cast

A naked and bloody seven-year-old girl walks into a bank, clutching a grubby teddy bear. She plays a threatening recording, demanding money. No one dares intervene. 

The child leaves the bank and disappears, without leaving a trace of evidence.

This daring robbery...Read more

The Case of the Missing Servant

The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” ( Booklist , starred review).Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined...Read more

The Frenchman

A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operative.

Alec de Payns is an operative in the secretive Y Division of the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service. He's the agent at the sharp end of clandestine missions,...Read more

Black Man

The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning...Read more

Above The Law

Following the astonishing revelations in the bestselling 'Dead Man Running', comes this forensic examination of the global future of organised crime - now being operated on a massive scale by outlaw motorcycle gangs. One of the astonishing revelations in the bestselling expose 'Dead Man...Read more

All These Perfect Strangers

You don’t have to believe in ghosts for the dead to haunt you.

You don’t have to be a murderer to be guilty.

Within six months of Pen Sheppard starting university, three of her new friends are dead. Only Pen knows the reason why.

College life had seemed like...Read more

Dead in the Water

When Brigitte and her family moved from the city, they were supposed to be happier. And safer. But soon her crime-writer ex-boyfriend turns up in town to promote his new novel, in which a woman is found dead — murdered — in a country lake. Hours later, Brigitte watches the police pull a...Read more

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