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Second Sight

A fugitive in the present. A runaway in the past.

Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she’s on the ‘wrong side’ – defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by...Read more

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Second Strike

In the early hours of October 13, 2002, Australian spy Alan McQueen is jolted awake by a phone call and told to immediately head to Bali, where more than 200 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts. Assigned to keep an eye on the forensics teams working the bomb site, Mac learns...Read more

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The Secret Adversary

The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other.

The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who were friends before the war, run...Read more

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Secret Asset

When Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings are taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss, Charles Wetherby, immediately puts a surveillance operation into place. An attack seems...Read more

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The Secret of Father Brown

Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown...Read more

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The Secret Generations

Set in the years between 1909 and 1935, this multi-generational thriller focuses on the Railtons, an aristocratic English family of soldiers, diplomats, and civil servants who turn their talents and patriotism to the practice of international espionageRead more

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The Secret House Of Death

Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight, telling everyone a cockamamie story about him being a central heating salesman. Still, it's a shock when she's found shot dead, covered by the equally dead body of...Read more

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The Secret of Terror Castle

Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators' new detective agency. But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the...Read more

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The Secret of the Garden

'Anyone with money is a god, anywhere.  Here, you may be the biggest, vilest, ugliest, moste diseased blackguard in the state, but if there's cash behind you, you're respected.' John Archibald Cups is a bitter young man.  Falsely accused of embezzlement by his banking employers, he's turned...Read more

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A Secret to the Grave

A suicide.

A secret.

To the grave.

That was the promise that ten girls made many years ago, and now the time has come when they will be forced to make a choice. Keep the secret and lose their lives, or reveal it and risk the lives of others....Read more

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Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics

Starting with William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction—Poe’s Dupin stories, Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie’s The Murder of Roger...Read more

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The Secrets in Silence

Tara has lost her voice. She knows there was pain and fear but she cannot remember anything else. Now she can only answer the questions with silence.

Minnie has buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation, keeping her secrets safe and her broken heart...Read more

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The Secrets She Keeps

Everyone has an idea of what their perfect life is. For Agatha, it's Meghan Shaughnessy's.

These two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common - a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear.

Both will risk...Read more

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The Secrets of Strangers

A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for five strangers whose paths cross in a London café - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple...Read more

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Secrets Of The Jury Room

Lawyers and judges speak platitudes about the wisdom and commonsense and community values juries bring to bear, but its clear from Malcolm Knoxs recent experience of a long jury trial that this is a legal fiction. He found chillingly apposite an old legal adage: you'd love to be in front of...Read more

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The Seducer

This postmodernist Norwegian novel, an international bestseller and winner of Scandinavia's top literary award, will have readers on the edge of their seats, as Jan Kjærstad waves his magic adventure wand and seduces all. Protagonist Jonas Wargerand is a successful TV documentary producer...Read more

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The Seduction of Power

From the tiny Italian village of Montebello, to the leafy Melbourne surburb of Toorak, a war of honour, greed, crime, vendettas and merciless codes is fought in the name of La Famiglia.Read more

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See What You Made Me Do

A searing investigation that challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse

Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question:...Read more

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See You At The Toxteth

A selection of stories featuring Australia's favourite PI, plus unpublished writing by Peter Corris on crime.

For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as 'the godfather of Australian crime fiction', and Cliff Hardy has been Australia's favourite private investigator since...Read more

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See You In September

Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just words, uttered casually by a young woman in a hurry. And then she'd gone.

It was supposed to be a short trip - a break in New Zealand before her best friend's wedding. But...Read more

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Seeking Whom He May Devour

Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his...Read more

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Self's Punishment

Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. several incidents of computer-hacking at a chemicals company, he finds himself dealing with an...Read more

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Semana Santa

Semana Santa (Holy Week) fills the streets with gawking tourists and thousands upon thousands of hooded penitents. The week gets off to a grisly start, though, with the most unholy discovery of a double murder. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez is only supposed to observe the subsequent...Read more

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The Semantics of Murder

Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalytic practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a...Read more

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Sensitive New Age Spy

All Alby wants is a decent coffee and a day off.  But there's a hijacked tanker with a deadly cargo in Sydney Harbour, and bullets are flying on board a US Navy cruiser.  Three sailors are dead and a Seahawk chopper is missing.  

Who's behind the mayhem?  Why is the government...Read more

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Sentenced to Life: Poems

In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator)—including "Japanese Maple," which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim—Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty....Read more

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Sepulchre

One girl in the past, one girl in the present.

A Parisian debutante accompanies her brother for a stay in the countryside of uncertain duration.  Leonie loves her brother Anatole but is certainly not blind to the freely available sins easily accessed by a young man in such a...Read more

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The Serbian Dane

LISE CARLSEN:  A successful journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marriage.

PER TOFTLUND:  A crack member of Denmark's secret service, a lone wolf:  unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work.

VUK:  a highly skilled political...Read more

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