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Crime Fiction

The Benevolent Deception

Air Force One is shot down by insurgents in the frozen deserts of Afghanistan. The U.S. President is discovered dead, the victim of a successful assassination.

Or is he?

This is a question that only Peri Keser, the sole surviving, on-site Secret Service Agent, can...Read more

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Bereft

It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world.

In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn...Read more

The Berlin Conspiracy

A plane hijacking above Los Angeles sets Archer on the trail of a terrorist mastermind. 

The CIA want him. The Germans and Brits want him. But The Division are after him. 

Berlin is in the grip of nationalist uprising against immigrants, and tensions are running...Read more

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The Berlin Cross

Down and out New York PI John Docker has a past he'd rather forget. So when he finds himself in Berlin in 1948, just after the Russians blockade the city in a move that ultimately sparks the Cold War, it's against his better judgment. Docker is there to track down some stolen treasure - the...Read more

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Berlin Game

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once active in the field but now anchored to a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But soon, Samson is confronted with evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues. And to find...Read more

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The Berlin Traitor

July, 1945. The war in Europe is finally over. But Auguste Duchene, who survived occupied Paris at great personal cost, cannot escape his past. He finds himself helping the Allies to pursue a Gestapo war criminal through the ravaged and dangerous streets of Berlin. Duchene soon learns,...Read more

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Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

AKA: 
Death Among Friends and Other Detective Stories

These thirty stories, selected and introduced by Michael Gilbert, are concerned with murder, criminal acts and the law and can be dipped into in any order.

'The Rivals' contains a real puzzle; 'Name of Smith' features a judge's summing-up and a murder; 'The Story of Hermione' has...Read more

Best Left Buried

Matt Latham. Foreign correspondent and part-time spy for Australia’s Secret Intelligence Service. A flawed anti-hero with a heart of gold, plagued by a self-destructive impulse to expose lies and corruption - at any cost.

1986:...Read more

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The Best Man To Die

Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief...Read more

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The Best of Rumpole

Rumpole is everyone's favorite defense barrister: he is a fearless tamer of judges who is kept in order only by She Who Must Be Obeyed. A rumbustious defender of the faith, Rumpole is known, not surprisingly, as something of a character. His exploits at the Old Bailey - and elsewhere - are...Read more

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Best Served Cold

After failed attempts to make a different future, Brad Chen returns to the Australian capital to reprise his role as the city's number one murder investigator. Where others see mere coincidence in the deaths of three friends, Chen soon sees clear and sinister purpose. His efforts to bring...Read more

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The Bethlehem Murders

For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing...Read more

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Betray Me If You Dare

Ted Waite hadn't meant to shoot Arnold Grenfel, it was a reflex action. And now the bank's alarm had gone off, there was not time to take the money. Where could he go? The police were already alerted. A car perhaps, but that was futile. He could not get out of the town, and he'd still got a...Read more

The Betrayal

A gripping novel of one woman’s fight for justice, when the battleground is the police force itself.

Tasmania is in the grip of one of the longest, bleakest winters on record and it’s particularly icy at the Hobart Police Station. Of the many golden rules in policing, one is...Read more

Betrayal

By the prize-winning author of Missing Eva, a dynamic, successful young mother, is forced to reassess her marriage when her husband's apathy can no longer be ignored. Then she discovers he's been having an affair with her young son's day-care teacher and her grief and rage drive her into...Read more

The Betrayal of Bindy MacKenzie

Bindy is the smartest girl at Ashbury High. She ranks in the 99.9th percentile in everything she does (including extra-curricular activities – she is casual Employee of the Month every month at Kmart). She is also the kindest girl at Ashbury High. For example:

• Before each...Read more

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Better Dead

In one of the loveliest bays on the Costa Brava, Ferdy, the charismatic yet mightily unpopular host of Bar Xerxes is found dead.

Out of the many foreigners who had settled in the bay, there were some who missed his light-hearted approach to life yet most were relieved....Read more

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Better Left Dead

DI Nyree Bradshaw and her team have their work cut out for them once again. Local woman Lizzy Bean has been found dead, garrotted with a piece of wire. Lizzy's property, a 1970s beach house overlooking a pristine Northland bay, is overflowing with rubbish. Inside, the house is even worse....Read more

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Better the Blood

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH

Hana Westerman is a tenacious Ma¯ori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a...Read more

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Between

Olly lives with his Mum. When he is grounded and unable to go to soccer camp he keeps running into Mad Martha who wanders the streets with her shopping trolley. He is forbidden to speak with her. Who is she, and what aren't they telling him?Read more

Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold

The death of an unknown American in Stockholm, though tragic, should be an open-and-shut case, a simple suicide. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of corruption, incompetence and violence currently strangling the Stockholm police department, he...Read more

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Fall of the Welfare State 1
Jarnebring & Johansson 4

Between the Devlin And The Deep Blue Seas

Les Norton's apartment block in Randwick was proving to be nothing but trouble, full of mayhem and murder. It seemed the longer he owned it the more money he lost. But while he's trying to solve his financial problems, Les still has time to fight hate-crazed roadies, sort out a drug deal...Read more

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Between the Lies

What would you do if you woke up and didn't know who you were?

Chloe Daniels regains consciousness in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
She doesn't recognise the strangers who call themselves family. She can't even remember her own name...Read more

Between the Windows of the Sea

When Adam hears that his brother Theo is dead, fallen overboard from his fishing vessel and washed ashore on the Bounty Islands, he knows something isn't right. Adam joins forces with Theo's girlfriend, Emma, and what begins as a quest for answers quickly becomes a dive into an icy current...Read more

Between Two Evils

As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still...Read more

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Beverly Hills Browning

'I felt lucky. I was heading for the U.S.A., Hollywood and a million dollars. "Deal the cards, Jesse," I said.'

But not all the cards dealt to Browning turn up trumps. And Richard Browning has a marvellous talent for mucking up even lucky breaks. In fact, he's only really good...Read more

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Beware of the Dog

The woman was dangerous, even over the phone. Cliff Hardy knew he should have listened to his instincts when he first met Paula Wilberforce.

Instead he becomes embroiled in a high-society family full of old rivalries and hatred, his gun is stolen and he is wanted in relation to...Read more

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Beware of the Trains

Gervase Fen, Oxford professor and amateur detective, tackles sixteen baffling cases, including the disappearance of a conductor from his trainRead more

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Beyond Fear

Imagine if your worst fears came true ... again.

At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers.  Her schoolmate Angie was not so lucky...

Now thirty-five, Jodie is a teacher and mother of two - and her past is a horror she...Read more

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