Murder and Chips
Could someone really have smothered Cody Pyke in the pile of beechwood chips where his garishly clad body was found?Read more
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Crime Fiction
The Murder Club
A dead body. An anonymous letter. This is only the beginning.
‘Not all evil, on the surface, is ugly and menacing. It doesn’t always lurk in city centres after dark. It mows your lawns, frequents your local pub, takes its kids to school and contributes to...Read more
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Murder Comes to U3A
A suspected serial killer stalks the ranks of the local U3A branch.Read more
Murder Down Under
Bony is happy to take on a little informal investigation during his vacation in Western Australia, after a farmer suddenly disappears near a huge wheat field. Despite the lack of evidence, Bony suspects murder--which leads him to uncover some strange goings-on.Read more
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The Murder Exchange
When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson has been guarding is empty--and he wants to know why...Read more
The Murder Farm
In a German village in the aftermath of the Second World War, Old Man Danner, his wife, their daughter, her two children and their new maid all lie dead. They have been brutally murdered with a pickaxe at their remote home, now known as 'The Murder Farm'.Read more
Murder for Treasure
Could the takeover of Rigley's Patent Footbalm by the American Hutstacker Chemical Corporation be scuppered by Mrs Ogomore Davies' parrot finding a body in Panty Harbour?
It looked like it, but banker sleuth Mark Treasure took a different view when a second body was discovered...Read more
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The Murder Game
Set in an eerie mountaintop hotel, isolated by a violent storm. The Murder Game is a witty, fast-moving mystery about an out-of-control game that goes terribly wrong. It was supposed to be fun in the beginning -- but the murder game ends up being played with real bodies.Read more
The Murder of Harriet Krohn
Charlo Torp has problems.
He’s grieving for his late wife, he’s lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control...Read more
Murder Has Your Number
When a body is found in the street near a busy intersection at rush hour, it appears to be a case of hit-and-run-but DI Walter McDumont is not convinced. Who killed Alan Shelgrove? A business associate? A friend? A member of his family?
The case proves to be one of the...Read more
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Murder in Advent
Litchester Cathedral, usually an oasis of cloistered calm, suddenly finds itself at the centre of an acrimonious dispute over the proposed sale of its 1225 copy of the Magna Carta.
Merchant banker Mark Treasure is invited down to sort out the squabbling cathedral chapter. But...Read more
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Murder in Court Three
Farquhar Knox QC heard a creak to his right and swung round, prepared to bully an intruder into going away. But the blustering tirade died on his lips as the sharp point of an arrow pierced his dinner shirt, entered his torso below the ribs and was pushed up until it penetrated his heart...Read more
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Murder in Doubt
No sooner has Oliver Atkinson dropped off the previous ghost hitchhiker than the next one reveals her presence. To make matters worse she’s the spirit of a nine-year-old, with a relaxed attitude towards the truth.
What starts out as a simple task quickly turns into an...Read more
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Murder in Fancy Dress
When a policeman playing an outlaw in a "Wild West" festival in a small New Zealand town is shot by a mentally retarded teenager, Sergeant Arrow and Inspector Peacock investigateRead more
Murder in Lockdown
When Audrey returns to New Zealand during the Covid-19 Pandemic her flight from the USA has a confirmed case of the virus onboard. The Government set out to track all passengers on the flight but Audrey has disappeared into the outskirts of rural Northland.
With a new identity...Read more
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Murder in Mesopotamia
An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq.
It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr....Read more
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Murder in Montparnasse
Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee, to rhyme with briny) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and...Read more
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Murder in Mt Martha
In 1953, a small dog leads his owner to the mutilated, dead body of a young girl. The senseless and brutal homicide not only shakes up the small seaside town of Mt Martha, but also begins an Australia-wide manhunt for the callous murderer. However, the witness testimonies are strangely...Read more
Murder in Mud
Life is about to get muddy.
Oliver Atkinson thought his first ghostly hitchhiker was also his last. Until Angus McMurry arrives.
The grumpy old spirit isn’t leaving until Oliver proves Angus’s great, great grandson innocent of murdering his girlfriend.
Once...Read more
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Murder in Murloo
When a popular young woman is strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo, the residents are sure an itinerant surfer who disappeared after the murder is the killer. However, one year later the surfer is still missing and the killer’s identity remains a mystery.
The...Read more
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Murder in My Backyard
No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge.Read more
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Murder in Paint
The spirit wants her name back. The con artist wants her painting back. And Oliver just wants his life back to normal. Good luck.
Oliver Atkinson’s life is busy. Between trying to write a book, children, and housework he doesn’t have time for the spirit that’s taken up...Read more
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Murder In Paradise
When Mary, a deaf child, is found at the bottom of a cliff in idyllic Kinness, visiting birdwatcher George Palmer-Jones vows to get some answers from the reticent townspeopleRead more
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Murder in Pink
Missing money, a dead body, and a new ghostly hitchhiker.
Oliver Atkinson should be helping plan his fortieth birthday party. Instead he meets Toni, a young woman about to embark on a charity run. When her boyfriend is found murdered and she is the prime suspect, Charlie...Read more
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Murder in Punch Lane
Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a...Read more
Murder in Rockwater
Blurb to come.Read more
Murder in the Cathedral
The indefatigable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to solve what may be her most puzzling murder.
When Phryne Fisher is invited to Bendigo to witness the investiture of her old friend Lionel, who is being made a Bishop, her expectations of the solemn and dignified...Read more
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Murder in the Crooked House
The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in...Read more
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Murder in the Dark
It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being hosted at the Werribee Manor House by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. Phryne is of two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly...Read more
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Murder in the Devil’s Half Acre
Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this Victorian-era mystery with heart.
Trouble’s brewing in the Devil’s Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It’s enough to give a genteel lady a fit...Read more
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