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Deadly Australian Women

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...

Meet the women who have murdered - they′ve killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. They include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of society′s disapproval, in others they acted to save themselves from violence.

ISBN: 
9780730493754
Publisher: 
Harper Collins / ABC Books
Year of Publication: 
2013

Three Crooked Kings

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
True Crime

The first of two explosive investigative books – Underbelly meets the narrative storytelling of Chloe Hooper and Helen Garner

In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement. Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s.

ISBN: 
978-0-7022-3891-8
Publisher: 
University of Queensland Press
Year of Publication: 
2013

A Bitter Taste

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Treachery becomes a habit.

London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The parched city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle and there's no end in sight. Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the nadir of investigations: matrimonial.

The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind. A strung-out ghost from Berlin's past turns up on her doorstep: Sonja Kvist's daughter is missing. Despite Berlin's reluctance, Sonja reminds her of an old debt and Berlin agrees to search for the ten year old.

Special Interests: 
Finance
ISBN: 
9781921901188
Location: 
London
Series: 
Catherine Berlin
Publisher: 
Michael Joseph
Year of Publication: 
2013

Blood Witness

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Thriller

ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION PLUNGES HIM INTO THE VIOLENT WORLD OF MELBOURNE'S UNDERBELLY.

Defence laywer Will Harris is reluctantly drawn into a bizarre murder trial. A terminally ill man claims to have witnessed the brutal crime – in a vision.

But the looming trial is more than just a media circus: it's Will's first big case since the tragic death of his fiancée.

With the pressure mounting, Will's loyalties are split when his fiancée's sister is charged with drug trafficking.

ISBN: 
9781921901492
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Will Harris
Publisher: 
Michael Joseph
Year of Publication: 
2013

The Richmond Conspiracy

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Victor Radcliffe, prominent Melbourne businessman, on the committee of the Carlton Football Club, lies murdered in a deserted warehouse—the bayonet wound suggests a trained killer, but Police Inspector James Maclaine, and his smart-taking sidekick Harry Devlin, are having trouble tracking down the killer.

Sub Genre: 
Historical
ISBN: 
9781921922664
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
DI James Maclaine
Publisher: 
Text Publishing
Year of Publication: 
2012

Sufficient Grace

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Wisconsin, part of an isolated religious community. The girls’ lives are ruled by the rhythms of nature — the harsh winters, the hunting seasons, the harvesting of crops — and by their families’ beliefs. Beneath the surface of this closed, frozen world, hidden dangers lurk.

Then Ruth learns that Naomi harbours a terrible secret. She searches for solace in the mysteries of the natural world: broken fawns, migrating birds, and the strange fish deep beneath the ice. Can the girls’ prayers for deliverance be answered?

ISBN: 
9781922070029
Publisher: 
Scribe Publications
Year of Publication: 
2012

The Marmalade Files

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.

When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph one frosty Canberra dawn he knows he′s onto something big. In pursuit of the scoop, Dunkley must negotiate the deadly corridors of power where the minority Toohey Government hangs by a thread - its stricken Foreign Minister on life support, her heart maintained by a single thought. Revenge.

Sub Genre: 
Humour
Politics
ISBN: 
9780732294748
Location: 
Canberra
Series: 
Harry Dunkley
Publisher: 
Harper Collins
Year of Publication: 
2012

The Lost Voice of the Grand Final

Submitted by Karen on

Category: 
Mystery
Author's Home Country: 
Australia

Astrid has to find the Voice of the Coach in time for the Saturday Grand Final. Was the Voice captured in the TV 'Footy' studio? Lost down his throat? Was a Voice Coach any use? What about the Speakeasy? or the Voice-over on the TV Footy panel or on Talk-back? And then there's the Bird Wedding of the Year. Carrot was supposed to be the MC (Master of Ceremonies) As usual, Sleuth Astrid the Mind-Reading Chook, solves the problem.

Sub Genre: 
Childrens
ISBN: 
9780987157539
Series: 
Sleuth Astrid
Year of Publication: 
2013

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