Crimes for A Summer Christmas

Contents:

  • Ladies’ Day - Jennifer Rowe
  • Logan’s Comet - Peter Corris
  • Westralian Lead - Mudrooroo Narogin 
  • Neighbourhood Fortress - Marion Halligan
  • The Widder Tree Shadder Murder
  • ...Read more

Beyond Bad

The shocking true story of Katherine Knight, a grandmother jailed for the most gruesome crime ever committed in Australia. Knight murdered, skinned and served up her de facto as a meal for his children. She is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to serve out her life in prison.Read more

Dead Certainty

Set around the Central Coast of NSW, Diana, an estate agent, finds a body in a four-poster bed in a house she is listing for auction. She thinks it is a body, until it moves. 

The plot accelerates as this intriguing story progresses through to unexpected revelations. The...Read more

Burke's Soldier

Melbourne, 1871: John King is dying far from the deserts he traversed with the legendary Burke and Wills.

Ten years on from that fateful expedition, King is finally ready to tell his story. The young Irishman had already endured the horrors of the Indian Mutiny when he signed...Read more

Playing Dead

Pretending to be dead is one of the more bizarre ways to opt out of society. Despite the obvious risks, a surprising number of people attempt to leave their old life behind by faking suicide. And the results can be unbelievably madcap.

High fliers facing financial ruin,...Read more

Evil Life

The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told.

The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and...Read more

More Crimes for A Summer Christmas

The second collection of stories by Australian writers of crime, mystery and psychic violence, including Alex Juniper, Peter Corris, Claire McNab, Marele Day and Jennifer Rowe.Read more

Done Like A Dinner

Some of Australia's most bizarre crimes had their genesis over a seemingly innocent meal in a city restaurant. This is a collection of the best known, written by two of Australia's leading crime reporters, Jennifer Cooke of The Sydney Morning Herald and Sandra Harvey. Colourful racing...Read more

Davo's Little Something

All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties - the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash...Read more

Murder's Burning

Set in Australia, it's a murder mystery that keeps you on the edge of your set. Excellence Aussie locale plays a strong role in murders committed during massive burnings caused by a draught across the countryside.Read more

Carnies

The small south-west Australian town of Tillbrook has a secret, one that has been kept for over a hundred years; the Dervish Carnival, which has been there for a century, is run by people who are neither human nor animal, but live in the woods and howl at night. But when David Hampden, a...Read more

Dead Witness : Best Australian Mystery Stories

A body in a billabong...

The bridegroom who disappears on his wedding day...

A murderer for all the right reasons...

The Australian thriller tradition is rich and some of the early examples almost completely unknown. This collection, selected by...Read more

Clues from Beyond

Clues From Beyond explores the truth about some intense real-life Australian crimes, through the eyes of a psychic medium as she investigates criminal cases and unsolved murders.Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing...Read more

Anyone Can Murder

When Hubert Carson, the editorial manager of the Herald Newspaper in Auckland, is found dead in his office, the autopsy reveals that it was a blow on the head that killed him, a mild heart attack probably causing him to fall. Carson's fellow employees are not so sure. They knew that the...Read more

The Devil You Know

This 90s thriller romance moves between the boardrooms of Sydney and the "Deliverance" country of the Tasmanian wilderness.

Heroine Brady Martin, twenty-eight and unemployed, ignites a rebellion among th Tasmanian farmers who are being forced off their land by the banks....Read more

Bite of the Lotus

From the bestselling author of 'The Webber Agenda' and 'Worst Nightmares' comes a thrilling thriller set in Washington, Moscow, Sydney, and Hanoi. Set against the backdrop of the US Presidential race and global money laundering, this is the story of a father's relentless pursuit for a...Read more

Blind Justice

On 10 November 1984, Laurie Tanner came home to his farmhouse in rural Victoria and found Jenny, his wife, dead, her hand wrapped around the barrel of a bolt-action rifle. Her death was viewed as suicide. In 1996 Robin Bowles, a Melbourne company director, heard about a special taskforce...Read more

Deathwater

Darkwater is a historic home near Brisbane, still owned by the Forrests, the pioneer family whose founder built it in colonial times. Journalist Bob Slater, who is writing an article about the house and family for a local paper, is killed in a car accident on a...Read more

Copycat

'As he stared down at her, she managed to reach up and scratch his face, feeling the skin slide under her nails, feeling her own skin being greased by a spurt of his blood. Her other hand reached up and found the binoculars around his neck. She thumped them against his head, and thumped...Read more

Bitter Nothings

Half her family have been murdered in their beds. Her father is the prime suspect. And things are about to get a whole lot worse…

Graphic designer Dervla Johns wakes one morning to the news that her father, Warren, is missing and her stepmother and step-siblings were found dead...Read more

Before I Let You Go

Sisters Lexie and Annie haven’t seen each other in years. The path of addiction has taken Annie to some dark places, whilst her older sister Lexie has managed to strive ahead with her medical career and is looking forward to soon tying the knot with her doctor fiancé.  Lexie has had her...Read more

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is investigative journalism at its best and most relevant.

All over Asia, bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact, while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world. Russian gangsters are active in New York, Miami and...Read more

Brothers in Arms

Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park.

Among the dead, a fifteen year old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily-armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash.

Brothers in Arms...Read more

Dark Angels

The streets of Darlinghurst are dangerous. It is 1930 and razor gangs compete for domination of the turf. Leaving home isn’t optional when Gilbert Maggs’ drunken father chases him from the house with a carving knife. He quickly finds that the back streets hold dangers of their own....Read more

Better Dead than Never

Patricia Lunn takes on a hopeless case after an old friend from her days in uniform asks her to dig into a supposedly wrongful conviction of a serial rapist turned killer.

But as she knocks at the doors of the city's most influential people, someone wants her dead before she...Read more

Angel Rock

After a week lost in the Australian outback, thirteen-year-old Tom Ferry makes his way back to Angel Rock. To the horror of everyone in the small town, he is alone. Exhausted and traumatized, he can't remember what happened to Flynn, his little brother. Shortly thereafter, another child of...Read more

Deadly Tide

Her father is accused of murder …Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper of her father’s fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name.His job is to find out the truth …Brisbane cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his last assignment, goes...Read more

Death Among the Dunes

When popular children’s author Micky Douglas takes his niece and nephew for a caravan holiday on Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, he’s expecting nothing more exciting than three weeks of sun, sand and swimming. And he wouldn’t mind getting to know fellow...Read more

Dead Lovely

When Krissie joins her best friend, Sarah, on a walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands, it seems like the peaceful balm they both need. But peace turns to betrayal when Krissie seduces Sarah's husband, Kyle - and it isn't long before betrayal turns to murder . . .Read more

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