Double Imperative

When Jenny McCarthy, a research assistant for a Federal Cabinet Minister is murdered, her husband, Terry, is wrongly imprisoned for the crime. Destiny intervenes and Terry escapes. Whilst on the run he tracks down the leader of the prosecution team, Nicole Evans. He desperately needs to...Read more

Dangerous

This adventure thriller explores the complex love-hate relationship between flamboyant combat photographer Sean Ryan and idealistic war correspondent Hugh Webb. The relationship endures over three decades, in Vietnam, El Salvador and Bosnia.Read more

Blood Secret

Nothing ever happens in Haven Bay, which is why Rennie Carter – a woman who has been on the run for most of her life – stayed there longer than she should.

However, that illusion of security is broken one night when Max Tully, the man she loves and the reason she stayed,...Read more

Francis Thompson - A Ripper Suspect

This book solves the Jack the Ripper murders. Within is the culmination of twenty years research around the globe. It presents new evidence that, on the night that the Ripper killed his victim, Thompson could look down, from his room; to the passage that led to hers. Inside is proof that...Read more

Aladdin in London

In no way do I wish to force your inclinations, my dear Hilda, said Lord Kenny, taking up his favourite position on the hearthrug. I simply point out to you that Sir Richard is rich and Mr. Dacre is poor. Your common sense should tell you which to choose.Read more

Murder at Broken Ridge

Welcome to Broken Ridge, NSW, a town with a past that nobody could be proud of.

This story of an unsolved murder in rural New South Wales is a perfect mystery that will keep you guessing all the way through and then drop your jaw with a truly shocking twist at the end....Read more

Detainee 002, The Case of David Hicks

In a remote American military base at Guantanamo Bay, 385 enemy combatants sit waiting for their day in court. Among them is David Hicks, who was detained for five years until the March 2007 hearing where he pleaded guilty to the charge of providing material support for terrorism."Detainee...Read more

The Burning

The flames consumed everything. They licked the weatherboard walls of Peter Halliday’s shed and nibbled at the timber lining boards stacked in the rafters. They blackened and eroded the kiln-dried hardwood studs that formed the skeleton of the walls. They lapped at the pools of oil on the...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

Deathwatch

Written by the author of "Venom", this is a novel set at the end of 1941 on the South Pacific island of Santa Maria, which is still a tranquil idyll in the midst of a world broken by the drunken brawling of its most disreputable citizen, Patrick Corrigan.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

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

Five Oranges

Frankie Canyon is happy with his quiet life in Glasgow, watching the Discovery Channel and going to the pub. He once helped his brother anny save his bar from the money-grabbing mafia of Saigon and that was enough excitement to last him a lifetime. So when Danny invites Frankie and his wife...Read more

Hell Has Harbour Views

Hugh Walker, 32, a successful lawyer with an attractive girlfriend and executive office view, seemingly has it all. So why does he identify more with his resident cockroach than Atticus Finch, his childhood hero?

Could it be because he is cheating on his girlfriend and...Read more

A Thousand Mettle Folds - Cut I: The Fall

1888. Unstoppable, the killer searches for the perfect victim, using each corpse as a means to find the next. As the killer has done for years. For centuries...

CUT I: THE FALL How can you outrun death? How can you convince your hunters of your innocence? How can you run when...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

Dirty Girl

Mostly it only took a trumped up charge to ruin a reputation and silence a person, but sometimes the rat pack that ruled Perth in the 1970’s would have to resort to murder. 

Not the back room, needle in the arm, overdose kind of murder that could so easily be written off, nor...Read more

A Traitor in London

A murder in the quiet English village of Chippingholt is only the first in a series of trials that will shape the lives of Brenda Scarse and her lover Harold Burton. Who is the mysterious stranger, so closely resembling Brenda's father, who was seen near the scene of the crime? And why does...Read more

Dead Regular

A murder mystery set in Brisbane, Australia: Catching a serial killer won't be easy when nobody suspects murder...

One thing is stopping Jono from loving his job as a paramedic. It’s not the blood and gore, nor the vomiting drunks, not even the seemingly endless rolling shifts...Read more

Befriend and Betray

The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day’s work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.

Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he’d end up in a blue-...Read more

Harem

Set in the worlds of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, this book follows the fortunes of a handful of desperate characters whose destinies gradually weave together in a tapestry of passion, envy, betrayal and cruelty.Read more

Faces in the Rain

Wealthy drug-company mogul Duncan Hamilton is on the run - wanted for the murder of a high class Polynesian hooker. Her funeral, on a wet winter's day, is the beginning of his quest for the real killer. Hamilton's transformation from fugitive to hunter sends him on a dangerous trail from...Read more

A Quality of Light

Vera Sculthorpe subsidises her pension by fortune-telling at a city tearoom. When one of her regular customers is stalked by a young man, she has the misfortune of 'seeing' his deeds.

In another part of Brisbane, a young police photographer, Senior Constable Kerry Harmer...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

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

Dangerous Deception

Some secrets are worth dying to protect …

Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak.
His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is killed, and...Read more

A Woman's Burden

"A Woman's Burden: A Novel" by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction likely written in the late 19th century. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime. The...Read more

The Wild Heart

When you fall in love you lay yourself open to a whole set of unknowns.

But when the man you fall in love with turns out to be a former member of a loyalist paramilitary gang in Northern Ireland, who turned informer leading to the gang being disbanded and most of his former...Read more

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