The Blue Bar

On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession.

After years of dancing in Mumbai’s bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So...Read more

A Touch of Crazy

Murder or suicide? Alex’s freedom depends on the answer and time is running out.

Devastated by her husband’s so-called ‘suicide’, Alex insists someone had murdered him. Her doctor and the police think she’s crazy and send her to a psychiatric clinic. Drugged to...Read more

The Tea Ladies

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...

Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman believed to be in...Read more

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.

All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation...Read more

Woman, Missing

She's the one to turn to when you need saving. But first she has to save herself...

Lou Alcott is turning over a new leaf as a private investigator. Formerly police, she was forced to resign when she attacked a domestic violence perpetrator. She's always vowed to be...Read more

Black Silk and Sympathy

A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But...Read more

Killed At The Whim Of A Hat

When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city for a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she expects much in her life to change. Quiet will replace quick, and, surely, crime will give way to calm. There goes the career, then.Not a chance. No sooner has she settled than a...Read more

Deadly Pursuits

An honourable murderer, if you will… The police force of Abbots Hill, Helenborough, have two seemingly separate, and frustratingly unsolvable, cases on their hands. DCI Roy Kennet has left no stone unturned in the investigation of a series of unusual break-ins in which...Read more

Background for Murder

Dr. Maurice Royd, the head of a psychiatric hospital, is found slumped over his desk with his skull caved in.

But a lack of hard evidence leaves the local police stumped.

The difficulty is that there are too many people who could have murdered Dr. Royd, too many people...Read more

The Photograph

In a quiet Sydney suburb, soon-to-be-married Sonny Day sets off on his bike to catch the train to work. He never makes it to the station. After his fiancée Chrys reports him missing, DI India Hargreaves launches a low-key investigation.

Weeks later, a man’s body is found,...Read more

Death of a Foreign Gentleman

Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock .

Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German...Read more

Treachery in Bordeaux

An immersion in French countryside and gourmet attitude with two amateur sleuths gumshoeing around Bordeaux wine country. In modern-day Bordeaux, there are few wine estates still within the city limits.Read more

Tin Men

She thought she knew her father. But what she doesn’t know could fill a morgue…

Ex-MI5 agent Chrissy Livingstone grieves over her dad's sudden death. While she cleans out his old things, she discovers something she can't explain: seven photos of schoolboys with the year 1987...Read more

Savage Point

A killer is watching... A bride's wedding ends in tragedy when her matron of honour is brutally murdered. Detective Inspector Ian Anderson leads the investigation. He will need all his skills to find the killer whose identity and trademarks are as mysterious as the motive behind the crime....Read more

Bliss It Was

The novel is set largely on Waiheke Island, off the coast of Auckland City, Aotearoa New Zealand. The central character is a man with a secret past, who interrupts a home invasion and becomes embroiled in a series of events which lead to his prosecution for multiple murders.

He...Read more

Written in Dead Wax

He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detective” and some people take this more literally than others.

Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to...Read more

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The Other Half

You know how they live. This is how they die...

Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel...Read more

A Certain Malice

You can run from anything... but your fears.

When Sergeant Cam Fraser thinks the gang who murdered his wife and son are targeting his daughter, he relocates to the other side of Australia, not expecting trouble in the small country town where he was raised. But a violent,...Read more

The Ice Cage

If you liked Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, Henning Mankell’s Wallander series or Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole, you might also like Magnus Sandberg, a Londoner returning to Scandinavia to bury his estranged father, only to discover that he has been murdered. Tracking down the killer, Magnus is...Read more

A Lovely Way to Burn

It doesn't look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural...Read more

Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute

When freelance journalist Scout Davis learns that a dangerous American cult has moved to Australia, her investigative antenna start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs, bizarre sexual practices and deadly doomsday preaching, and what she finds is every parent's...Read more

Take Down

Glitz, Glamour, and Deadly Decisions
Every decision has a consequence. Some can be deadly...

Lily Cartwright has been trained to obey and protect her criminal father, but deep inside her anger grows. The chains of duty shatter when she learns of her father's plans to...Read more

Island of Secrets

What if an insane billionaire decides there are too many people in our world; what will he do? What is his answer? To kill millions for the greater good through the invention of a spectacular killing machine! How will he do this? By manipulating local cultural concepts to gain privacy for...Read more

Chloe - Lost Girl

A missing student. A gunned-down detective. A woman in fear for her life. All three are connected. 

Detective Inspector Carl Sant and his team get on the case. But what links the disappearance of a university student, the death of an off-duty police sergeant, and a professor...Read more

Wake

Mina McCreery's sister Evelyn disappeared nineteen years ago. Her life has been defined by the intense public interest in the case. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, she lives alone on her family's destocked sheep farm.

When Lane, a private investigator, approaches her with...Read more

Reservation for Murder

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.Read more

Present Tense

What if justice isn't enough?

Schalk Lourens got out his phone and started filming, something Pieterse taught him years ago. Keep a record. Do it yourself, boykie, every time. That way you can be sure. Cover your arse. Don't trust any of them.

Schalk began...Read more

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Medea's Curse

Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn’t want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication. Now...Read more

The Chinese Proverb

Army veteran Hunter Grant thought he had left war behind in Afghanistan – a conflict that left him with physical and psychological scars. But finding an unconscious girl in the Northland bush and gradually untangling her story involves him in a war of a different kind in his own country.Read more

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