Make-Up For Murder

Image of the book cover for Make-Up For Murder, in which the same nun as the earlier covers is standing in front of another elaborate building, this time it's mauvish with a pale orange sky. Underneath her is a panel with a big old TV camera and lights, with somebody standing behind the side on view of the camera, a lot of makeup brushes and makeup towards the bottom left, and a woman's face, half visible, looking distressed.

Mother Paul, the incomparable nun-detective, is faced with her most perplexing case when a former pupil at her convent school is murdered at their annual reunion.As a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she’s a TV star, the glamorously...Read more

Faculty of Murder

Image of the book cover for Faculty of Murder. This time the nun is, again in full habit, with the cross around her neck and glasses on. She is standing in front of a building with a tower, and the sky is greenish whilst the building is brown. There's the stylised image of a girl with closed eyes and flowing hair in a greenish background at the bottom, looking for all the world like somebody who is floating.

Faculty of Murder is set at Brigid Moore Hall, a girls' hostel in the University of Melbourne, where "freshettes" are shocked by a new arrival, Judith Mornane, who announces that she intends to discover her sister's murderer. Her sister, Maureen, had mysteriously disappeared from the hostel...Read more

Reservation for Murder

The book cover for Reservation for Murder by June Wright - Mother Paul Investigates is made up of a drawing of a nun in full habit, with a cross around her neck. She is wearing glasses and standing between the outline of a convent type building and a wrought iron fence. There's a skull showing behind the fence. The sky is orange, the building teal green and the fence (and the nun's face) are also slightly orange. It's a caricature.

June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention―she has a shrewd grasp of everything that’s...Read more

Gunnawah

Image of the book cover of Gunnawah by Ronni Salt with the multi line tagline of:

It's 1974 in the Riverina.
The weather is hot.
But the body in the Murray River is stone cold ...'

The image is a wide flat river with blue green water reflecting the cloudy sky above. There is a line of Mallee gums on the far bank, and a large bird standing no top of a tree stump in the water.

It's 1974 in the Riverina

The weather is hot

But the body in the Murray River is stone cold . . .

A captivating and compulsive crime thriller about guns, drugs and a young woman dead on the...Read more

Everywhere We Look

The book cover for Every Where We Look by Martine Kropkowski is a view of still water through a tree. There's a young figure standing in the water at the bottom, where the water is reflecting a green sky above. There's a yellow glow in the distance, past a row of trees that is reflected in the rest of the water body.

Three friends travel to Marcoy, a regional town for a weekend away from family life. One year ago, a tragic incident splintered the group, and the women have seen little of each other since.

Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months away, and she hopes...Read more