Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Left for dead in a cave in the Blue Mountains when she was two, Kannon Jarratt has no idea who she really is or why someone once tried to kill her. Now, twenty years on, Kannon is a fierce young woman trained in the martial arts and still dealing with her past. Through an accident of fate...Read more
"Your father is a pit bull who has to tell himself he is a romantic because otherwise he would lie awake at night screaming at his own evil. He is the devil with a brandy balloon. All my life I try and explain this to you. Please do not try and make me cry for him. I would rather weep for a...Read more
On a hazy summer's morning in 1965, nine-year-old Michael McCabe and his four-year-old sister, Catherine, kiss their mother goodbye and set off to the beach. they never return. As a junior constable, Bill Keliher was there when the McCabe kids went missing. Now, still enslaved by the...Read more
Formerly a Captain in the Paras, Jay McCaulay is highly trained, tough and resourceful. She's been working in Bristol with the aid agency TRACE for two years, helping track and unite families separated by conflict.
But Jay receives an unwelcome reminder of her army past when a...Read more
Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid each live on the outskirts of town, but come from very different sides of the tracks. When Zach's wealthy mother goes missing, Rebecca – the truckie's daughter – is implicated in her disappearance.
In the weeks that follow, Rebecca and Zach are...Read more
Intrepid investigative journalist Scout Davis has given herself a holiday, but when Hermione Longfellow floats towards her in the supermarket, wanting to engage her services, she stops to listen.
Most people in Byron Bay are aware of the eccentric Anemone sisters. Always...Read more
All Jimmy Diamond wants is a peaceful life with Carmel. Away from the city...Away from Crime... Away from his past. But the past just won't let him go. Someone's got a contract out on Jimmy. They think they've got him on the run. Only when it comes to vengence, no ones more lethal than...Read more
Wolfman Les - rock'n'roll DJ. Another good idea down the gurgler... What should have been a quick gig on a radio station followed by a white water rafting holiday in North Queensland finishes up a four wheel drive trip to Cooktown with Norton looking for two missing SCUBA divers. The army,...Read more
Erica Jewell can't worry about hunky hired gun, Jack Jones, and his commitment-phobic ways. She's flat out managing Dega Oil's sponsorship of the Australian Open tennis, and doing a pretty good job of it. That is until a devastating oil rig explosion sends Dega's reputation and share price...Read more
Montezuma County Sheriff's detective, Jude Devine doesn't face too many challenges based in remote Paradox Valley, where most of the crime involves hiker assaults, campsite thefts, and cattle rustling. However, when the body of local teenager, Darlene Huntsberger shows up with a stake...Read more
In Colchester a recently bereaved husband sees in a shop-window a plaster-cast made from a death mask of his dead wife. He is sure no death mask of her was ever taken; and in great distress, asks Gilbert Larose, the famous investigator, to solve the mystery. Larose is soon upon the track of...Read more
There are no dead bodies in this story.
Listen, we're kids. Murders don't come our way all that often. This is about a missing violin. Okay, not so exciting, but take it from me, it's a pretty good whodunit all the same.
Angelo Martinelli, also known as The Angel,...Read more
Set between 1965 and the 1980s, first in the heart of workaday Brisbane and later in the subtropical surroundings of the Gold Coast hinterland, "The Groundsman" is a story of family violence, suppressed sexual tension, rage and greed.
The Nettleton brothers, Mark and Colin,...Read more
Maria, a young student, and her friend Leon lead a life of orderly days and chaotic nights. Both outwardly successful they also both have a tendency towards destructiveness. When Leon is killed by a car, Maria is left with grief and is it possible that Leon could have intended to die?Read more
Whilst Nick spent an afternoon in bed with his neighbour, his son Owen went missing and was never found. Now, ten years later, he has returned from the USA with a desire to assuage his guilt and face up to his past. Little does he realize that his investigations will unleash further...Read more
A holiday in Terrigal sounded great to Les Norton, and all he needed to do was look after young Jimmy Rosewater for a week. But young and handsome Jimmy was supposed to be in gaol and, before he knew it, Norton was busy fighting off the usual yobbos. And all the time Les had a feeling Jimmy...Read more
True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his injured mum's primary carer, and he only has two real friends: sporty Kane and feisty Shell, who are both dealing with their own problems.
Gus's life is flipped on its head one day when...Read more
It’s 1968 and times are changing, not always for the better. And especially not for the charred body found buried in the smoking ruins of the Sandpiper reception centre where the local football club has just held its end of year celebrations.
As police officers Lloyd Cole and...Read more
Hagar hesitated. The article, notwithstanding its workmanship, its age, and its historical associations, was worth very little. Had its interest consisted of these merely, she would not have taken the key in pawn. But the row of mysterious figures decided her. Here was a secret, connected...Read more
Sandy McCutcheon reaches into the heart beneath the headlines of people-smuggling, detention centres and the terrible price of freedom. In a marketplace
in Afghanistan, a son watches his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Karim Mazari knows he must flee his homeland if he...Read more
Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before.
The decision of the Victorian government in December 1966...Read more
The Hangman's Knot by Arthur Gask is a riveting tale that delves into the shadowy realms of crime, justice, and moral ambiguity. Set against the backdrop of a small, insular community, the story follows the enigmatic figure of Peter Fenton, a once-reputable architect who returns home to...Read more
When Cassidy Blair takes on another job as a sexual sleuth she never expects to end up in the back of the shaggin' wagon with former pop idol Jason Wilde, but with a feisty enthusiasm, a bit of luck and a grand's worth of quality lingerie, Cassidy's ready for anything.
Determined...Read more
PI Harry Kenmare is back, with a visceral lust for vengeance.
Sydney’s elite and powerful are awash in corruption, like rats sunning themselves in an open sewer. And so, in these sordid episodes, Harry’s business is as busy as ever.
All the better, then, to finance...Read more
Win Moon, war hero and trained assassin, has seen his fair share of death, but no death has affected him like his mate's, Charlie Soong. When Charlie and his beautiful young daughter are blown to pieces in a Triad hit on a local grocery store, Win is determined to grant Charlie's widow,...Read more
