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The Afterlife of Harry Playford

What does a pile of clothes left on a deserted beach tell you? It's a cold midwinter Monday. Seaweed and shells litter the flat expanse of sand. There is a light wind, the sea more disgruntled than choppy, the tide out. And there amongst it, the neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded...Read more

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Blood Root

Lies are poison . . .
. . . but so is truth

Professor Eustacia Rose has been arrested for the possession of poisonous plants without holding the proper licence. Waiting in a grimy police cell, Eustacia's mind starts...Read more

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Carnival of Lies

Venice. Winter, 1539.

When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence – with his life, if necessary. The deadly attack that follows leads to bodies, bloodshed . . . and something far more...Read more

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The Casino

This place is paradise. A gleaming, golden paradise, and mark my words, we intend to keep it that way, by any means possible. You can bet on it.

Detective Lana Cohen thought she had found a slice of peace on the sun-drenched Gold Coast, but her respite is shattered...Read more

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The Couples Retreat

There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who remembers who you used to be.

At a secluded beachfront mansion on Kangaroo Island, three wealthy couples gather for a weekend of partying and luxury indulgence. But beneath the glitter and excess, deep rivalries and explosive...Read more

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Death and the Dancing Girl

In 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, Tom Blake learns his wife is lost in France. She was arrested by the Gestapo but where is she now? More shocking, when last seen, Madeleine was pregnant. Tom returns to a France that has been devastated by war to try and find both his...Read more

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Devil Mountain

A wickedly dark police procedural with a hint of the supernatural, this crime novel is Dinuka McKenzie meets The Bluffs.

When Detective Sergeant Anastasia Brown is sent to investigate a grizzly murder in a small NSW town, she welcomes...Read more

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A Fatal Legacy

There are rules to first dates: don't talk about your ex, do ask lots of questions, always meet in a public place.

Digby Coombe-Watson didn't think they applied to him. He had other worries: how to get rid of his great-grandfather's crumbling property, and whether his family...Read more

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Find Me

THREE YEARS MISSING.

When Pete vanished into the rugged wilderness of Tasmania’s Abel mountains, it only took a few weeks for the official search to be called off. He’d been warned, they said. Mount Mercy takes people.

TWO...Read more

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Freedom

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time

For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society...Read more

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The Ghost Walk

Did anyone know Dr Gabriel Beaufort better than Ruby Rose Gillespie? They were friends at high school. They are secret lovers now. And because he is also the lung-transplant surgeon who saved her life, Ruby will forever be in his debt.

But then the body of Dr Beaufort is found in...Read more

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The Graduate

New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm.

She's too quiet.
She wears too much makeup.
She’s only here because the boss has a thing for Asians. 

But Fei isn’t here to climb the corporate ladder –...Read more

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Hero

DS Lucas Walker is back home in Queensland, following the dramatic fallout from his last case. He is just getting to grips with his new role in the small outback town of Katima, when the body of an unknown young man is found hanging from a tree in the park.

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The Hobart Hotel

Glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive ... the compelling new Tasmanian historical fiction from a bestselling Australian author.

December 1939: The grand opening of Australia's most glamorous and talked about...Read more

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The Jibe

Ella Hampton makes a mayday call from Aurora on the Hauraki Gulf saying her husband has been lost overboard during a jibe (gybe) manoeuvre. A body identified as Dean Hampton washes up with a gash to the head and other injuries. The coroner rules it an accident.

Amy...Read more

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Like, Follow, Die

Corinne Gray’s life is falling apart. When homicide detective Kyle Nazarian unexpectedly knocks on her door on a rainy morning, she knows why. He wants to talk about her son, Ben.

An average teen in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Ben is dating his first girlfriend and trying to find...Read more

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On The Edge

Desperate people do desperate things...

Sixteen years ago, teenage Maddie Marshall's body was found on a desolate beach near her hometown, Carrinya. Vibrant, feisty Maddie was the only daughter of a high-profile politician. The case was the talk of the town but was...Read more

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Prey

On her first day back from maternity leave, Detective Sam Shephard is thrown straight into a cold-case investigation – the unsolved murder of a highly respected Anglican Priest in Dunedin.

The case has been a thorn in the side of the Police hierarchy, and for her boss it' s...Read more

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The Room in the Ground

In a tense return to the Bloodstorm series, past choices come back to haunt those who were wronged—and the ever-blurring lines between good and evil make them question what is right.

Kim Ribbing is a peculiar man—a skilled hacker, but otherwise reticent and fiercely private....Read more

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The Secrets of Strangers

A propulsive thriller about a writer who gets caught up in the case of a missing woman, for fans of Lisa Jewell, Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware.

After suffering a loss, Janine and her husband Kamal need a fresh start. They leave their family and everything they...Read more

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She Walks at Night

Yachiyo Furugami, plagued by episodes of sleepwalking, receives a series of cryptic letters culminating in an ominous warning: 'Walk not at night'.

Then a body is discovered on the grand Furugami estate, decapitated with a centuries-old samurai sword. The police are baffled, so...Read more

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A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage

There’s a dead body in my living room. I’ve not called the police because it was I who stabbed him. Seven times in all. The truth is, it’s surprisingly difficult to dispatch someone with a vegetable knife.

In case you’re wondering, the dead man is not my...Read more

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Sound Mind Dead Body

Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (née de Reve) read from her late husband’s will. One of the houseguests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who has come to the UK as a...Read more

The Writers Retreat

A wickedly twisty and atmospheric thriller set at a writers' retreat in the South of France, The Writers Retreat is Knives Out meets Anna Downes’ The Safe Place...Read more

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