The Second Cut

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead....Read more

The Push

The Push, a sequel to A Kind of Catharsis introduces Sarah, a film maker who along with her policewoman friend, Barbara, work together to expose the underbelly of the cocaine trade in Invercargill. The mood is set when Sarah watches drug smuggling in the bleak early...Read more

Death on Gokumon Island

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger – with his last words,...Read more

Ace Post Mortem Twist

Is Cassidy Turpin a crooked cop?

When Tomcat’s secret crush is arrested for murdering a co-worker, Ella and Tom only have 24 hours to clear Cassidy’s name before she is shipped off to the notorious Nottingham prison.
But with Tomcat determined to call the shots, will...Read more

Faculty of Murder

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

Good News Bad News

Intrepid investigative journalist Scout Davis has given herself a holiday, but when Hermione Longfellow floats towards her in the supermarket, wanting to engage her services, she stops to listen.

Most people in Byron Bay are aware of the eccentric Anemone sisters. Always...Read more

Last Ferry To Gulf Harbour

Senior Nurse Amber leaves her medical clinic in the city following a late shift to grab a quick meal in the new Britomart Mall. Her window-shopping spree takes longer than expected. Hurrying to catch the last ferry to her home in Gulf Harbour, she is blindsided by a shocking turn of events...Read more

One Single Thing

Journalist Hope Barber disappears two weeks after returning to New Zealand from an assignment in Pakistan, leaving her front door open and her bag and phone inside. The police are tight-lipped about their reluctance to act, and Hunter Grant and Dao agree to help Hope’s brother Noah find her...Read more

Dead and Gone

There's nothing more dangerous than revenge.

Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub's landlord and Judi's...Read more

Deadly Intent

It is October 1923. What looks like a routine report, on the heavy rains battering Melbourne, becomes another case of murder for The Argus’s celebrated crime reporter, Reggie da Costa, devotee of fashionable suits and flamboyant automobiles. A flooded basement hides a ghastly secret: the...Read more

Death Holds the Key

When loathed landholder Fred O' Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help from a mysterious wanderer to solve the case. And it' s one where everyone, including his family, has a motive and a secret to keep.Read more

Trouble Brewing in Harrogate

This beer festival’s going off with a bang …

A call from an old colleague has DI Adams off her patch and out of her depth, investigating a mysterious new beer with unexpected side effects. Side effects far more dangerous than a simple hangover.

Deadly brewers...Read more

The Pale Criminal

In the sweltering summer heat wave of 1938, the German people anxiously await the outcome of the Munich conference, wondering whether Hitler will plunge Europe into another war. Meanwhile, private investigator Bernie Gunther has taken on two cases involving blackmail. The first victim is a...Read more

Child of the State

"He’s first, you're next." 

That's the message someone scribbled on a photo of Stacy May Charms' six-year-old son, two days before her release from prison. 

Stacy knows why. She doesn't know who. 

And she's not waiting around to find out. Her plan is...Read more

Death by Tradition

Must DI Joe Horseman sacrifice his chance at love to catch a killer?

Only 5 more days… Horseman can’t wait for Melissa, his American girlfriend, to join him in Fiji. This time, he wants love to last.

So, when a young activist is murdered at Tanoa in the remote...Read more

Retribution

What was Lucy hiding? Why has she no family or friends? As the number of suspects mounts up, Archie begins to conclude that the real answer lies in Lucy’s dark and mysterious past, and that the murderer may be just a little too close for comfort....Read more

Dust Off the Bones

In 1890, estranged brothers Tommy and Billy McBride are living far apart in Queensland, each dealing with the trauma that destroyed their family in different ways. Now 21, Billy bottles his guilt and justifies his past crimes while attempting to revive his father’s former cattle run and...Read more

Return to Blood

After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she...Read more

Examining the Corpse

Seventy year-old ex art thief, con man, and now a successful writer Giovanni Rex is completing the second of three novels. Somehow he has managed to stay in Venice, but Venice is a lonely place when all you can think about is the past. After ten years in prison that past is catching up with...Read more

Call to Arms

A $20 million gold bullion heist executed with military precision. 

A Special Tactics team is decimated and the streets of downtown Wellington are left littered with dead bodies. A disgraced spy known as The Pastor is caught out in a weapons deal with a ruthless Somali warlord...Read more

Yours Until Death

It was at their 'torture chamber', a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encountered the gang's pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar's bicycle had been stolen and not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. But a preliminary brush with such...Read more

Girls Who Lie

When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation.

PAPERBACK STAR PICK in THE TIMES CRIME CLUB

When...Read more

Death in a Lonely Place

In a quiet village, a storm is brewing. Detective Jake Jackson left London for a quiet life in Caelum Parvum. The idyllic country village offers the peace he craves—tending to his chickens, swimming in his lake, and spending long, lazy evenings with his new love, Livia. It’s the perfect...Read more

Salvation of a Saint

When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to Ayane being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away?

As Tokyo police...Read more

The Bookshop Detectives: Tea and Cake and Death

When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn’t warn us about was the murders . . .

The Bookshop Detectives are on the case!

In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff...Read more

Hat Dance

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Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's first and only female police detective, will risk a dance with the devil to catch an arsonist and find a missing girl. But the music comes with a price no honest cop can afford to pay.

By coincidence at the same restaurant as Acapulco's popular mayor,...Read more

Dead Man's Shadow

1890, Stoke Newington

A new church is being built…

Although quite beautiful, it does not sit well with older members of the community, whoare all members of the Church of England.

The pastor, Tristan King, insists on calling the lord, ‘my...Read more

Too Easy

Wisecracking social worker Stella Hardy returns, and this time she’s battling outlaw bikie gangs, corrupt cops, and a powerful hunger for pani puri.

On a stormy Halloween night, Stella gets a call from her best friend, Detective Phuong Nguyen. Phuong has a problem. Or rather...Read more

Falling Towards England

'When we got off the ship in Southampton in that allegedly mild January of 1962 I had nothing to declare at customs except goose-pimples under my white nylon drip-dry shirt.'

In the first volume of "Unreliable Memoirs," we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney...Read more

Cyber Count

Has cyber-crime escalated to murder?

Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O'Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague's teenage son goes...Read more

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