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Sanctuary, Garry Disher (#auscrime)

 

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His Favourite Graves, Paul Cleave (#yeahnoir)

 

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Dead Man's Sins, Caimh McDonnell (audio) (Which I'm also listening to)

The Water's Dead, Catherine Lea (#yeahnoir)

Dice,  Claire Baylis (#yeahnoir)

Dark Arena (The Frenchman #2), Jack Beaumont

 

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Dragon's Back, A.C. Edwards

Murder at the Actuary's House, K.T. Bowes (#yeahnoir)

 

 

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BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781761066689
Year of Publication
Series
Book Number (in series)
2
BLURB

Alec de Payns, espionage operative of the Y Division of the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service, is tasked with tracking down an agent of influence sending highly classified material against the Kremlin to embassies all over Europe.

A deadly conspiracy is aligning the West against Russia. But who is behind it? And to what end?

The clues lead to a secret meeting of businessmen, terrorists and mercenaries on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, which de Payns must infiltrate. What he discovers sets off a Europe-wide manhunt in a desperate scramble to prevent an international catastrophe.

Former DGSE spy Jack Beaumont's Dark Arena is another chillingly plausible thriller delivering all the taut plotting, superb action and authentic spycraft that made The Frenchman a critically acclaimed bestseller.

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781922790620
Year of Publication
BLURB

Grace is a thief- a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items-stamps, watches-and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not the life she wants.

Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel's rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different. A normal job. A place to call home.

But someone is looking for Erin. And someone's looking for Grace, too. And they are both, in their own ways, very dangerous men.

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781914585883
Year of Publication
BLURB

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 father accidently burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school.

When high-school student, Ben Connor, is abducted, Logan sees a chance to get his life back on track – to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Ben's safe return.

But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Logan's going to have to make the kind of decision from which there's no coming back … a decision with deadly consequences…

BOOK INFORMATION
Year of Publication
Book Number (in series)
5
BLURB

How far would you go to protect a dead man?

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. However, just because you’re not looking for trouble doesn’t mean trouble isn’t looking for you.

Bunny’s former partner died in the line of duty under dubious circumstances but his murky background has suddenly resurfaced, threatening Bunny’s reputation as well. As if that isn’t enough, a young boy is in danger and a woman from the big fella’s past is trapped in a loveless marriage to a monster. They both need Bunny’s help, but he must get to work fast – it seems someone is trying to frame him for murder …

 

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9780473594749
Year of Publication
Book Number (in series)
1
BLURB

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin—the moko, is worn only by Maori women. So, her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered Huia Coburn, and dumped her body in the volcanic rock pool at the base of Mason’s Rock waterfall has now fallen to DI Nyree Bradshaw.

From the strangely unsympathetic parents, to the belligerent boyfriend on home detention for drugs, it seems everyone has something to hide and no one is telling the truth.

Then Nyree discovers six-year-old diabetic, Lily Holmes is missing, last seen in the victim's care. Now, Nyree must now find the killer to save Lily.

She has already failed her own son. She cannot fail this child.

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781761186950
Year of Publication
BLURB

Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say.

They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls.

Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened.

Only they can say whether crimes have been committed and who should be punished.

How does the jury find?

Dice is a stunning courtroom drama told from the perspective of a diverse group of ordinary people - the jury. How will twelve women and men, aged from eighteen to seventy-two with hugely disparate backgrounds, beliefs and experience, decide whether consent was given or crimes were committed?

How can they possibly arrive at a unanimous verdict? How will justice be properly served?

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9780646859392
Year of Publication
Series
Book Number (in series)
1
BLURB

A woman wants her errant husband tracked, an undocumented Cambodian girl is found dead, the city’s two biggest criminal societies vie for power, a loan shark wants his money back, and a corrupt cop is pulling strings from the shadows. It’s just another day in Hong Kong.

Former cop Galahad Jones’ struggling business as a private investigator was on life-support. With no friends to speak of and a gambling debt that, if called in, could see him floating face down in Hong Kong harbour, things weren’t good.

Reluctantly taking a job to investigate a cheating husband, Galahad is suddenly catapulted into the deadly world of Hong Kong’s criminal underbelly. Conspiracy and betrayal reign as he finds himself in a life and death chase through the mean streets of Kowloon and The Island to bring down a human trafficking ring and, hopefully, keep his head on his shoulders in the process.

With the help of his apprentice, Joey Loh, and mysterious girlfriend Angel Yeung, Galahad must confront his past, Hong Kong triads and official corruption to free the girls and clear his murdered father’s name. Dark forces are arrayed against him and Galahad is never quite sure who is friend and who is foe.

One thing is for certain... Galahad Jones will do whatever it takes, no matter the personal cost.

BOOK INFORMATION
Author
Year of Publication
Book Number (in series)
5
BLURB

An imposition. An insult. And a dead poet.

When the Literary and Historical Society decide to hold their end of year event at Wingate Hall, it's the last thing Emma needs.

With her husband missing in action and the weather worsening, she's forced to face the group alone. They arrive with all their airs and prejudice, a rotten cohort determined to feast on the rumours of her former life.But an unexpected blizzard traps them at the Hall, and one of the guests will not survive the night.

With no way to summon help, and no one able to leave, it seems the killer is still in the house.

Someone disconnected the internet and cut off their remaining communication.

Others are keeping damaging secrets.

One is burning with fury, another plotting revenge.

Three are not who they pretend to be, and one is a stealer of dreams.

Emma must find the killer.Because they haven't finished yet.

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