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An Iron Rose

Mac Faraday is a man with a past living a quiet life in the country - until his beloved friend New Lowey is found hanged. Is it suicide?

Faraday won't accept that and starts to ask questions. As Faraday's search begins to uncover chilling secrets, he finds himself thrown back...Read more

Series Name: 
Mac Faraday

An Isolated Incident

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.

Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose...Read more

It Takes a Town

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?
 
Everyone dies famous in a country town, but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star. A celebrity since a television commercial when she was a child, Vanessa is back on the front page for...Read more

Italian Shoes

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago.  Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table.  One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a...Read more

Series Name: 
Fredrik Welin
No in Series: 
1

Jack's Return Home

It’s a rainy night in the mill town of Scunthorpe when a London fixer named Jack Carter steps off a northbound train. He’s left the neon lights and mod lifestyle of Soho behind to come north to his hometown for a funeral—his brother Frank’s. Frank was very drunk when he drove his car off a...Read more

Series Name: 
Jack Carter
No in Series: 
1

The Jaded Kiwi

The summer of 1976 in Auckland, New Zealand. 

There is a severe marijuana drought. 

Two couples; a gynecologist and a physicist, together with a violinist and an actress meet by accident in a pub and help a Maori evade the police. 

A group of Maori...Read more

Series Name: 
Jaded Trilogy
No in Series: 
1

The Jaded Spy

Alexander, the curator, is sent to Auckland to escort Captain James Cook to the Auckland Art Gallery. On opening night, the priceless portrait is stolen. Alexander has to find the painting to save his career but he also has to deal with a Soviet spy whom he has been clandestinely...Read more

Series Name: 
Jaded Trilogy
No in Series: 
2

Jane Blonde Sensational Spylet

Until now, you have been just plain old Janey Brown.  But you are going to grow and grow.  You will be what your parents have not allowed you to be.  It's in your past.  And it's in your future.  There's a whole new part of you just waiting to burst out.

You are JANE BLONDE -...Read more

Series Name: 
Jane Blonde
No in Series: 
1

Jar City

AKA: 
Tainted Blood

When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl’s grave. Inspector Erlendur, who heads the investigation team, discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Erlendur
No in Series: 
3

Jennifer Shot -- The First Shot

Murder, cannibalism, kidnapping and breach of copyright hit the sleepy state of Tasmania.

To make ends meet, law student Jennifer Shot rents rooms to Nathan, Rod and Cindy, two oversexed fellow law students, and a police officer with personal issues. Things start going wrong...Read more

Series Name: 
Jennifer Shot
No in Series: 
1

Jingo

A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing.

A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.

And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime...Read more

Series Name: 
Discworld
Discworld - City Watch
No in Series: 
Discworld - 21
Discworld - City Watch 4

Jinx

One spring morning a woman is found dead in a Brunswick alley adorned with symbols of the occult. Catherine Kint, milliner, gin enthusiast and raconteur, has no reason to be involved until her friend is under investigation. Armed with her sharp wit, a crime scene background and a barman...Read more

Series Name: 
Catherine Kint
No in Series: 
1

Joe Cinque's Consolation

A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW

In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the...Read more

Joe Victim

Sometimes reality can really get in the way of a good story.

Joe Middleton’s story is He doesn’t remember killing anyone, so there’ s no way a jury can convict him of serial murder. He calls himself Joe Victim, trying, as he awaits trial, to convince the psychiatrists that he...Read more

Series Name: 
The Cleaner
No in Series: 
2

Just Play Along

When Andy and Mel's double date turns into a snuff film, Andy fights back, killing one of her attackers, leading to an unwanted aftermath of attention and threats.

Detective Daniel Connor links the attack to the recent discovery of six female bodies found buried in bushland on...Read more

Series Name: 
Andy Knight Series
No in Series: 
1

Justice Denied

Bill Hosking looks back at his career as a criminal barrister in a candid account of his time at the bar. He tells the true story behind some of his most famous cases, including the Hilton bombings, ‘Toecutter’ Jimmy Driscoll’s attempt to avoid prison time, and the Anita Cobby trial....Read more

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main...Read more

Series Name: 
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
No in Series: 
1

Kanaloa's Betrayal

Detectives Reef Kahili and Kalani Rogers get called out to a missing person’s case. Is this a misadventure, misper or murder inquiry? Three friends from childhood are caught in a deadly, emotional battle. Has a love triangle gone wrong? Just how far would it take to push someone who’s been...Read more

Series Name: 
Detective Reef Kahili
No in Series: 
5

Karla's Choice

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war with the Soviets strewn...Read more

Series Name: 
George Smiley

Kataraina

The much-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Auē.

In Auē, eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train...Read more

Series Name: 
Auē
No in Series: 
2
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Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen

Catalina of Spain was betrothed to the English heir, Prince Arthur, when she was only three years so the expectations of a royal life were with her from very early childhood. Read more

Series Name: 
Six Tudor Queens
No in Series: 
1

Katipo Joe: Blitzkrieg

Joseph St George is a young New Zealander, the son of diplomats in 1930s Berlin.

But the Nazis are on the rise and the world is on a spinning path to destruction.

Joe’s world is about to change, violently.

After a narrow escape from Germany with his...Read more

Series Name: 
Katipo Joe
No in Series: 
1

Keep Her Sweet

When Jen and Andeep downsize to a lovely bluestone house in Ballarat, they don't expect to be followed by their spatting twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille. Soon the family is living on top of each other in a tiny house and tensions simmer. As the parents focus increasingly on...Read more

Kickback

Wyatt robs banks, and lifts payrolls. Most men like him are dead or in gaol. But Wyatt stamps a cold, pitiless style on his heists - and makes sure that he never gets caught. Now his funds are low and his luck is running out - until the day Anna Reid explains about the kickback in her...Read more

Series Name: 
Wyatt
No in Series: 
1

The Kill Bill

FAITH, DEATH AND FEROCIOUS POLITICAL SCHEMING


He's the nation's chief law maker. His daughter is fighting for her life in intensive care, a victim of a terrible crime. Will he ignore the prime minister's demands and his own laws to save her?...Read more

Series Name: 
Referendum Series
No in Series: 
0.2

Kill Shot

Some people just work better alone. Wyatt’s one of them. He’s been getting by on nice quiet little burglaries—one-man jobs—when he gets wind of something bigger.

A corporate crook, notorious Ponzi schemer, set to face court and certain jail time. He’s about to skip bail the old...Read more

Series Name: 
Wyatt
No in Series: 
9

Kill Your Husbands

Three couples, friends since the university athletics team, travel to a house in the mountains for an unplugged weekend of drinking and bushwalking. No internet, no phones, no stress. On the first night, the topic of partner-swapping comes up. It's a joke - at first.

Not...Read more

Kill Yours, Kill Mine

AKA: 
Seven Sisters

Mia's grief counselling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers.

Mia has been gathering broken women together for...Read more

Kill Zone

A nuclear device the size of a briefcase has been developed in Pakistan. The scientist responsible has disappeared with it. The CIA believes the target is on US soil.

When the disappearance of the miniaturized nuclear weapon is uncovered a covert division of...Read more

A Killer Harvest

Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken away his biological parents, robbed him of his eyesight, and is the reason his father Logan, the detective who raised him, is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. The suspect, Simon Bowers, is killed by Logan's...Read more

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