They broke free from their workstations and ran giggling down the factory hallways, stopping only to scraw crude missives on the walls. Transcribed here for your amusement, the most original voices in crime fiction from around the world offers you 27 tales of revulsion, heartbreak and...Read more
Suppose you come to pick up your daughter from her job - and find that no one has heard of her and she's never worked there. If she hasn't been working all day, what has she been doing?
Tim Blake's teenage daughter Sydney is staying with him while she works a summer job at a...Read more
Suddenly, Robbie Mikkelson has a problem.
A dream-state called prexing is zapping him across time and space. Is he a school kid on Earth? Or is he thousands of years in the future, on a giant spaceship called Deepwater?
Deepwater is on a course to nowhere. Robbie must...Read more
Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life: the party that led to the sudden, shocking disappearance of a young woman. Only he and Bob, an old acquaintance, know what really happened and they have resolved to keep it that way. But one rainy night, years later, Bob...Read more
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a...Read more
The first Black Beacon Book of Mystery brings you original and reprinted tales from locked-room mysteries and armchair detective puzzles to noir adventures and police investigations. It includes a brilliant Sherlock Holmes pastiche and the second Oscar Tremont novella. This is the perfect...Read more
Imagine if your worst fears came true ... again.
At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers. Her schoolmate Angie was not so lucky...
Now thirty-five, Jodie is a teacher and mother of two - and her past is a horror she...Read more
BUSINESS ICON MURDERED ON MANLY FERRY
When Martin Stream, successful Australian business icon is murdered one morning on a Manly ferry on his way to work, local detective inspectors Georgia Show and Stephen French step in to solve the case.
Martin, married with three...Read more
Goldsmith and Templewood investigate the background of a man, whom they think may be a Nazi war criminal, and plot his deathRead more
Who killed the most unpleasant woman on Bagalow Beach?
What is the deathly secret of the skeleton buried in the garden?
How did a dead man come to sit on a plane beside a harmless-looking professor and his wife?...Read more
AMSTERDAM AIRPORT HAS DISAPPEARED
BLACKMAIL
The mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF - an Irish terrorist group who want to force Britain’s hand.
SUBTERFUGE
The Dutch call in Detective Lieutenant van Effen - feared interrogator and...Read more
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective’s quest for vengeance against her father’s killer in a Colorado mountain town
A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview...Read more
The Ultimate Life? Or the Ultimate Lie?
Alice Parker’s zest for life is contagious. When she’s not working in her father’s bar in London, she’s out partying with her friends. Some might say she is having too much fun.Read more
Six international artists are invited to a residency in southern Spain. What could possibly go wrong?
Writer’s block and paintings of oranges.
Love, lust, revenge.
A sculptor left for dead on the side of a mountain.Read more
Honest and engaging, this memoir reveals the remarkable rise through police ranks of Australia's first female chief commissioner. A police officer for more than 35 years, Christine Nixon shares the pressures of a life in the public eye and coping with difficult aspects of the job, such as...Read more
I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford, and so begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by the world's best living crime writer, Ruth Rendell. It was clear both to Wexford and Burden that Tom Peterlee was not killed for £360, but various people...Read more
Story of Raymond Edmunds, a convicted rapist and double murderer who was active in Victoria, Australia from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Edmunds was dubbed "Mr Stinky" by a newspaper editor due to his offensive body odour which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure...Read more
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires
‘It’s not a race.’ Scott Morrison, 10 March 2021, on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull,...Read more
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In Act Of God, Charles Templeton has written the story of men and women trapped in a terrifying moral dilemma. A novel of extraordinary skill and authority, the plot is ingenious, the suspense electric and the characters are brilliantly drawn. Precisely authenticated details move the reader...Read more
Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.
Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband's business to her sister's friends, to her fellow teachers. If only those around her could live up to her high...Read more
The ruthless and inquisitive Sergeant Harry Harker investigates the claims of a witness with a shameful past that a woman's fatal fall was no accidentRead more
They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press. They misused intelligence services, defied the United Nations, antagonised Indonesia and bribed poverty stricken Pacific states. They closed Australia...Read more
A beautiful New Zealand summer. An ugly past that won’t stay buried. Paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman has reluctantly returned to Auckland from London. Calm, rational and in control, she loves delicately repairing her small patients’ wounds. Tragically, wounds sometimes made by the...Read more
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
Bad things happen. Everybody dies. But the girl in the red dress kicks against the pricks. Four merciless and compelling stories by emerging writers from Canada, the UK, and USA.
From behind the wheel of her father's lovingly restored Barracuda, a waitress will protect her baby...Read more
As a woman driving alone on a country road at night, Cass isn’t that inclined to get out of her car when she passes what appears to be a motorist with engine trouble. It’s pouring buckets, and Cass’s cottage is not far away. Finding out the next day that a woman was murdered is a huge...Read more
Karen can't go on pulling stick-ups forever, but her ex-boyfriend Rossi gets out of prison any day now and she needs the money to keep Anna out of his hands.
This new guy she's met, Ray, just might be able to help her out, but he wants out of the kidnap game now the Slavs are...Read more
Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read.
From day one of her wildly unconventional...Read more
The Driver:
Ahead he could see only the stretch of unending road, on either side brown-scorched plains of dirt and scrub, above it all a soaring blue sky and blinding sun. Desolation that looked, to him, a hell of a lot like freedom. He wasn’t playing by anyone’s rules anymore....Read more