The Spite Game

Everyone does bad things when no one is watching

Mercilessly bullied in high school, Ava knows she needs to put the past behind her and move on, but she can’t—not until she’s exacted precise, catastrophic revenge on the people who hurt her the most.

First, she...Read more

Slyboots

An unconventional road trip ends in a terrible crime…

Europe, 1974

Rick Coleman and Emily Sutton make unlikely travelling companions. But when a chance meeting results in a road trip with a...Read more

The Island

It was just supposed to be a family vacation.
A terrible accident changed everything.
You don't know what you're capable of until they come for your family.

After moving from a small country town to Seattle,...Read more

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Death at Booroomba

In 1915, two days before being sent to fight in WWI, Jack O'Rourke dived into Sydney Harbour to save a drowning stranger, Samuel Lomond. Four years later, battle-scarred and weary, Jack returns home only to discover that Samuel has been brutally murdered – and that he's been left his rural...Read more

The Last Secret Agent

This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII.

Born in 1921, Pippa Latour became a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the...Read more

Vanishing Falls

Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She’s also missing. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls…Read more

Ten Months in Laos

An updated edition of Lawyers, Gems and Money. Conroy reveals a tale of corporate crime and deception that proves sometimes fact can be stranger than fiction. Melbourne lawyer Max Green paid the ultimate price for his multi-million dollar fraud when he was murdered, and more recently Kerry...Read more

Little Secrets

What happens when ambition trumps the truth?

A town reeling in the wake of tragedy

An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside.. ...Read more

Dark City

'Silvester is the doyen of Australian true crime. No one else comes close.' Nick McKenzie

From madmen to matriarchs, stooges to heroes, eye-watering bungles to sweet justice - strap yourself in for a masterclass in storytelling from Australia's most formidable crime...Read more

Out of Breath

A compulsive, nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller that takes its readers deep into the heart of a seemingly idyllic intentional community - that proves to be anything but...For readers of Anna Downes' "The Safe Place" and Sarah Bailey's "The Housemate".

Jo Ainsley has been...Read more

The Bunny Club

Evelyn Sinclair, morning television host, is adored by her public but she's on the outer with management at her television station, and unknown to anyone, she is being 'let go'.

She escapes the stress for a weekend in her home in the Southern Highlands, planning to meet a man...Read more

Safe Haven

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. 

It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees,...Read more

The River Blade

The River twists and snakes and encompasses the world, a rain-wet, neon-lit place of eternal night.

For Cass, it’s a place to escape the dull grind of her lonely life, a place where she can run its twisted laneways and live out her violent fantasies. For Detective Poe, it’s a...Read more

A Corpse at the Opera House

The third collection in the Crimes for a Summer Christmas series, featuring stories by 14 Australian writers, including Elizabeth Jolley, Marion Halligan, Peter Corris, Brian Castro, Marele Day and Jean Bedford.

The Lodger

Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic...Read more

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