The Brothers

An isolated house. A mysterious note. Someone is watching An isolated house. A mysterious note. Someone is watching ...

An absorbing, atmospheric mystery about families, secrets and the bonds of brotherhood set on the Victorian south coast.Read more

A Question of Belief

After being accused of a rape he did not commit and being ostracized by his community, Philip Winter seeks cover with an Animal Rights group, until another woman crosses his path with revenge on her mind.Read more

A Private Man

It is two days since Dr John Brand's death and his eldest son, Davis, suspects a cover-up. Survived by two sons, the death notice said. Peacefully.

This is a lie: there are three sons, and the circumstances of their seemingly conservative father's death are unclear. No-one...Read more

Apartment 255

They say I'm mad. I'm not. I'm just very, very smart.

Sarah and Ginny have been best friends since school. They both had their share of adolescent problems but now things are working out for Sarah.

She's met Tom. He's handsome, a journalist and totally devoted to...Read more

The Big O

Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse. Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now. He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge. But he won't be expecting Ray, the new guy Karen's just...Read more

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

Crosstown Traffic

Twelve Australian writers respond to the challenge of creating a hybrid crime story. Murder, mayhem, and malice intercept with science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, fairy tale, and romance writing to create an unholy miasma, the likes of which you have never encountered before. Expect...Read more

Hoodwink

Lieutenant Jack Chase is taken off his big case and assigned to what looks like a simple murder - a man, middle-to-late 60s, stabbed in the chest one time. Evidence of robbery, no weapon found. Then Chase meets the beautiful publishing editor Casey Hewson.Read more

Blood Stain

On 29th February 2000, Katherine Knight committed an unspeakable act. A mother of four and a grandmother, she seduced and then stabbed John Price 37 times.

A former abattoir worker, she skinned him.

A loving partner, she cooked him with vegetables, making a soup...Read more

The Flyaway Highway

When Egbert Tomkins sneaks into Murial Jane Jones’s garden to steal berries, the last thing he expects to stumble upon is the faun, Silvander Dan. Or to be whisked away on ‘The Flyaway Highway’ to a wonderful land where crazy adventures are common-place.Travelling on the Flyaway Highway,...Read more

Collins Street Whores

Someone has plans for Carmen Minelli ...Attaining a senior position with eminent stockbrokers J. D. Ford & Co. is a major coup for the bright, ambitious and beautiful Carmen Minelli.Carmen soon discovers the fi rm has a client with a dubious background and seeks to end the relationship...Read more

Bleak Water

Beyond the new city center developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run down, and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses. But between the renovations it’s a dark and lonely place—the perfect...Read more

Cruel to be Kind

Laura Ritchie's husband is killed crossing a busy road. Mike Mackman, though exonerated of blame, is desperate to put things right. It's not long before Laura is trapped in a spiral of unease and fear as the insistent Mike passes the point where desire to protect becomes obsessive need to...Read more

False Pretences

Although she hadn't seen her god-daughter for several years, Isabel feels duty-bound to help when Emily gets into trouble and takes her under her wing. To her surprise Emily is determined not to be a sponger and gets herself a job as nanny. Emily discovers her charge is illegitimate, the...Read more

Big Shots

In 2003 Adam Shand, until then a finance journalist, naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars.  A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story.  But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that.  He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged...Read more

Murder in the House of Omari

Winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Honkaku Mystery Prize. Osaka, 1943. The Second World War rages, and American bombers rain down death upon Japan. The once prosperous Omari household, now ruined by the terrible conflict, is struck by a succession of ghastly murders. Young...Read more

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...

It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-...Read more

Dead Letters

Counter terrorism expert Sid Allen knows nothing good ever comes from a phone call at 5 am. Politician Dan LeRoi, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, has been shot. Four bullets to the head. The crime scene is chaotic. Homicide. Counter Terrorism. Media. And for...Read more

A Treasury of Cartoons

For the first time ever… the ultimate collection of witty and adorable cartoons by First Dog on the Moon, the nation’s only marsupial-based Walkley award-winning cartoonist, in one luxurious illustrated leather-bound edition.*

Covering everything from daily political commentary...Read more

Continent of Mystery

Now, for the first time, Australian crime fiction's lurid and elusive past is exposed. Over nearly two hundred years, hundreds of authors and thousands of stories have created a unique national crime fiction. No other country's writers are so likely to sympathise with the criminals, or find...Read more

IQ84

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is...Read more

Hell Is Empty

On a lonely island in a Scottish loch, Donald Grant and his wife Kay are staying with his aunt and uncle, and their daughter Janet.

Three desperate men, looking for a hide-out have also come to the island.

Bull, Fred and Joe are gunmen on the run from a robbery, and...Read more

The Seventh Child

Winner of the 2012 Glass Key Award given by the members of the Crime Writers of Scandinavia

All the best homes are by the water, or so the matron of Kongslund Orphanage tells her small charges. But at this particular house by the sea, not all is as it appears...Read more

Flawed Hero

The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.Chris Masters is joint winner of the 2023 Walkley Honour for Media Freedom for his investigation of the Ben Roberts-Smith story ...Read more

Fever City

The story kicks off in 1960 Los Angeles, with the daring kidnapping of the child of one of America's richest men. It then darts back and forth between a private detective's urgent search for the child, the saga of a notorious hit man in the days leading to JFK's assasination, and the modern...Read more

Drawing Dead

Dead girlfriend…check 

Alcohol problem…check 

Gambling debt…check 

Looming death…check 

Jack Andrelli is a private eye. He’s also a booze-sodden, big-mouthed, gambling addict with a death wish. 

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Catch 22

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number...Read more

The Exception

An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death...Read more

Saint Peter's Snow

It could have been a common street accident that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital, but for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car, he has memories of a more disturbing nature. What of the violent events in...Read more

Frankenstein

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he...Read more

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