The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt

I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's a joke in there somewhere, about ending two men's lives.'

Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things - back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate - but she fled that life and moved home to Australia...Read more

Southern Aurora

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows small-town life is unforgiving if you're from the other side of the tracks.

"We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes...Read more

Murder in Punch Lane

Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a...Read more

The Birds of Gondwanaland

It's 1962, and all is not as it should be in this sleepy rural town. An elderly war widow wakes up to discover the naked body of a young man in the uppermost boughs of her Macrocarpa tree.

It's up to Senior Constable Elspeth Belfry and her lieutenant, Caddie, to solve the...Read more

The Gallows Bird

London 1838: The cast-out child of an aristocratic mother, Hannah 'Birdie' Bird is a laundry maid with a hidden past and a suspicion that the wealthy family she serves is hers.

Longing for beauty and liberation, Birdie risks everything to change her circumstances. She falls into...Read more

A Pack of Bloody Animals

‘The verdict in the Walsh Street trial was all four not guilty. Repeat not guilty. All units are warned - keep yourselves under control.'

Radio newsflash message to all State police

The killings called ‘Walsh Street’ arose when police and...Read more

The Dead City Rollers

Alistair didn’t know it yet, but in six days time he’d be putting both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth and putting his thumb on the trigger…

Burdened down with a bag of pot and a lot of guilt over the person he killed, Alistair needs to escape. He wants out from the turf war...Read more

Into the Fog

How could police lose three children? Three missing children. A wild storm. A long way from home. Melbourne journalist Georgie Harvey is on hand when three children disappear from a police-run camp in the Dandenong Ranges. When Daylesford cop John Franklin hears the news, he is on...Read more

Walking Towards Thunder

Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims of abuse within the church. He had been at the coalface...Read more

Angel of Death

The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know...

This is the story of 'Pretty' Dulcie Markham, a key figure of the underworld of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, who, according to one crime reporter, 'saw more violence and death than...Read more

Isobar Precinct

A chain of events sparked by a murder in a cemetery sends tattoo artist Lestari Cassidy into the orbit of an unpredictable drug.

Its connection to several deaths amongst the local transient community, along with the uncovering of illegal clinical trials in the 1980s, sends her...Read more

The Madison Gap

You think you know someone. You accept that because you are siblings, raised in the same house in the same town by the same parents, you share a common view of the world, live by an identical set of values. But what if you are wrong?

In Sydney, 2017, in the laid-back suburb of...Read more

No Country for Girls

'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle . . .'

Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever....Read more

Tranquil Bay

Emily, eight months pregnant, and her partner Cam return to Tranquil Bay, a small seaside town in New Zealand, to attend her dad’s 60th birthday bash. She hasn’t been back home since the tragic death of her younger sister Sarah ten years earlier.

The town and old friends she’s...Read more

Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.'

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.

At six years old, Terry was told by his...Read more

Whiskey Lima Golf

Crippled in a war not of his making and returned home broken and scorned by some, Tom Yelich stumbles into an undercover world of shadows, where the worlds intelligence agencies vie for supremacy in the deadly Great Game being played on the streets of Wellington.

Can Tom stop an...Read more

The Registrar

Dedicated and ambitious, Emma Swann is about to start a gruelling year as a surgical registrar at the prestigious Mount teaching hospital. She's excited to join her adored older brother Andy in pursuing the same career as their father, an eminent surgeon who made his name at The Mount....Read more

The Democracy Game

Populist political parties are increasing their influence across the world. It couldn’t happen in New Zealand, could it?

Journalist Grace Marks is investigating two unrelated stories – New Zealand’s alt-right, and the emergence of a new organisation, ProtectNZ. When she finds ‘...Read more

The Fall Between

On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough . . . It will be another two hours before rigor mortis sets in. Until then, the slim fingers will float below the water’s surface, gently bobbing, beckoning Detective Giles to come and find her.

Detective Rebecca...Read more

Double Jeopardy

Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yesterday once more. But first, Frank's got a...Read more

Find Us

There is a small yellow backpack – contents strewn around it, abandoned on a suburban footpath. There are the tracks of tyres coming to an end at a crippled stop sign.

Anyone walking past can feel the prickle on the back of their necks that tells them something happened a...Read more

The Games We Play

A phantom in the shadows, moving beneath the shroud of London’s night, David prowls the desolate park. Unaware of danger, his victims fall into his trap with cold precision, solidifying his grim reputation as the ‘London Strangler’.Read more

Kiss of Death

It’s 1918, in a Wellington that few people would recognise today, and two major events are about to the signing of the Armistice to end World War I, and the soldier-borne plague we now call the Spanish flu. Into this comes Wellington's only female lawyer, leading her group of Sapphist...Read more

Burning Mountain

Five went up. Only four came down . . .

In April 2006, fifteen-year-old Oliver went hiking to the lookout on Burning Mountain - and vanished without trace.

His schoolfriends – Bob, Bell, Phil and Paul – were the last ones to see him on the...Read more

Killer

When John McCarter, hitman, learns he has terminal cancer and mere weeks to live he decides to leave his life of crime. A ruthless killer, he now faces his own mortality and time is running short. But as McCarter’s skills are needed to avert a gangland war he struggles to cut ties with the...Read more

A Few Days in the Dark

Tim's stuff is disappearing and not just little stuff - things like his wardrobe and clothes. When he and his best mate set up a sting to catch the thieves, he is amazed to discover it's his parents!Read more

Miscarriage of Murder

Max Friteau stands to inherit a fortune one day from his late father — but only if he abides by the terms in his will.

Robert Friteau, a rich Belgian merchant living in the Friteau family home of Château Granbois, was violently anti-British.

Many years ago during the...Read more

Ghost Money

Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of the unstable government scrambling to gain the upper hand. Missing in the chaos is businessmen Charles Avery. Hired to find him is Vietnamese Australian ex-cop Max Quinlan. But Avery has made...Read more

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