After a brutal wildfire tears through the town of Jasper in the Californian sierras, a body is discovered in a shed. It looks like an open-and-shut case of accidental death - until further investigation reveals that the victim was locked in from the outside.
Years after leaving...Read more
Winter Robins is a happy enough child, growing up in the north of England, with parents who love her and the constant companion of a twin brother, but a cold wind blows through when her mother dies. Her father turns to the bottle, her grandmother struggles to cope, and she and her brother...Read more
On the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her campervan further into the wild north, Katy realises she's not as alone as she'd first believed. Soon...Read more
Desperate for reward money – and to rescue his marriage – an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime.
Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Logan's life is falling apart – his ...Read more
A long-haul flight. Two ambitious dance mums. A child in danger.
Bridget and Simone aren’t friends. But their daughters are in the same dance troupe, so they’re flying to Los Angeles for the girls to perform at Disneyland. Simone’s daughter Zahra is indisputably a leader in the...Read more
Nick Greene flees the life he’s known in exchange for peace in his quaint town’s rugged forest park, but when a curious fisherman foils his tranquillity, Nick’s missing persons case turns into a manhunt.
Heading to the neighbouring city of Abercrombie, Nick finds refuge in a...Read more
Seven friends.
One last weekend.
A mansion half in ruins.
No room for lies.
Someone is going to confess.
Because there should have been eight. . . .
They met when they were...Read more
She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assigned to cover her story? Have they started spooling through her social media and pulling out photographs? Constructing a narrative about who she is and what possible reason any person has to...Read more
When brilliant but emotionally-tortured New York journalist Bec Corelli learns her father has died mysteriously on vacation in India, she walks out on her job and heads to Delhi. Pharmaceutical CEO Ernst Reiniger, facing ruin over a failed drug, has hatched a chilling plan to save his 300-...Read more
Four friends.
One tragic death.
20 years of secrets and lies.
One wintery night, when they are young, Anna and her three friends Rudy, Seth, and Dougal are involved in an accident in...Read more
Imogen Maguire is bewildered when in 2018 she is accosted in a Melbourne Street by a mysterious stranger who says her grandfather in New Zealand needs her help. But her grandfather is dead, isn’t he? A former journalist, Imogen decides to investigate and travels to Taranaki where she finds...Read more
"Everything felt wrong, everywhere. The floor was at a weird angle – he took one step and staggered sideways against the wall. Was that shudder the house moving again?"
Zeke has to stay with his aunt and uncle in Lower Hutt after a landslide takes his East Coast home off its...Read more
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After committing an impromptu murder, Paul Barker finds himself trapped in a London apartment house.
Paul meets residents, Mayar and Kim, both of whom have dangerous secrets of their own.
While Paul contrives to conceal the crime and make good his escape, the...Read more
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Sarah’s life is about to be turned upside down. As the blossoming fashion designer’s best friend suddenly disappears, nobody is able or willing to provide any answers. Completely out of her depth she turns to the Neon Lights, an underground resistance group, but will the price for their...Read more
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Following on from 'A Kind of Catharsis' and 'The Push', this book is the end of the trilogy when justice finally prevails. The main character with a new sidekick continue their drug dealing murderous ways until finally their past catches up with them.Read more
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
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In the best traditions of the murder mystery genre, The Death of Father Ryan has all the twists and turns of a page turning whodunnit.
There is the usual gallery of engaging characters we have come to expect from this author. Be it the hasty Police investigator, the diligent...Read more
Becky thought she'd left Zoe and that summer far behind.
Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Becky Chalke and star-dusted Zoe Golden, and what happens after one...Read more
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.
WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?
Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours...Read more
A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992), the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.
Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uehara, ten...Read more
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed....Read more
Paradise has a price. A murder. A disappearance. A sinister network.
Steels Creek is an idyllic retreat in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. It's a place where everyone knows their neighbours and no one locks their doors. Investigative journalist Lars Nilsson who...Read more
In the sleepy town of Gainesville, Cooper Fox is a beloved local figure with a mind clouded by amnesia from a devastating car accident. But a chance encounter with three menacing strangers shatters the image of Cooper as a gentle guy with a foggy past, leaving the town of Gainesville to...Read more
Time for me to go on the prowl again. Oh, the glory of it. Two long months I've waited since Brenda Livingstone's demise. This is what fills my life. Watching, waiting, then partaking in the pleasure of what I have become. A serial killer.
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A second body of a young...Read more
Who tried to kill US President Lyndon Johnson on his 1966 visit to Australia? What links the Prime Minister to a Cold Case murder inquiry? Only one man alive knows the answers… If he can be found.
Among the many news crews covering Johnson’s visit was young TV sound recordist...Read more
A missing girl ... a cold case ... a sister who won’t give up …
'I was there on the day Rebecca disappeared. I watched her hurry away. If I close my eyes I can still see her...'
When Rebecca Bundy fails to return home after the last day of school in 1984 her father...Read more
Bavaria, Germany, 1947
At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents’ cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father’s shame, her mother’s fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh...Read more
When a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption.
As she delves deeper into the case, Lana reluctantly pairs up with Henry Loch, a...Read more
EVERYBODY HAS A COLD BLOODED KILLER IN THEM
A man is found sprawled across his bed naked. And dead. He'd been strangled. Evidence shows he hadn't been alone that night. A suspect is quickly identified but are they really guilty? Or are they just an easy target for those who...Read more
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.
It took her thirty hours to complete online.
Now, she has set up her own private investigation Yanakirri Investigative Services – Confidentiality Guaranteed.
When...Read more