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Crime Fiction
Gun Control
Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops - former members of the Gun Control Unit -...Read more
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Gun Street Girl
Belfast, 1985, amidst the “Troubles”: Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank and then jump off a nearby cliff?Read more
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Gunpowder Creek
Mum, please. I need your help. I’ve done something stupid… They’re coming for me.’
Friday, one thirty p.m. Emily Barnes is finishing work for the week, ready for a break from her laptop. Then she receives a panicked voicemail from her son Zach, punctuated by a gunshot....Read more
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Guns 'n' Rose
A holiday in Terrigal sounded great to Les Norton, and all he needed to do was look after young Jimmy Rosewater for a week. But young and handsome Jimmy was supposed to be in gaol and, before he knew it, Norton was busy fighting off the usual yobbos. And all the time Les had a feeling Jimmy...Read more
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Gunshine State
Gary Chance is a former Australian army driver, ex-bouncer and thief. His latest job takes him to Surfers Paradise, Queensland, working for aging standover man, Dennis Curry. Curry runs off-site, non-casino poker games, and wants to rob one of his best customers, a high roller called...Read more
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Gunshot Road
Emily Tempest. Small, black, snaky as a taipan's tooth: the woman least likely to pursue a career in policing.
Now, somehow, Emily's become the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) town of Bluebush. Being allergic both to authority and to...Read more
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Gus and The Missing Boy
True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his injured mum's primary carer, and he only has two real friends: sporty Kane and feisty Shell, who are both dealing with their own problems.
Gus's life is flipped on its head one day when...Read more
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Gutted
When the gangland owner of a pit bull that killed a three-year-old girl is found gutted on an Edinburgh hill Gus Dury is asked to investigate, and soon finds himself up to his neck in the warring underworld of the city's sink estates. Amidst illegal dog fights, a missing fifty grand and a...Read more
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Guy Fawkes Night
It’s 1968 and times are changing, not always for the better. And especially not for the charred body found buried in the smoking ruins of the Sandpiper reception centre where the local football club has just held its end of year celebrations.
As police officers Lloyd Cole and...Read more
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Hades
A dark, compelling and original thriller that will have you spellbound from its atmospheric opening pages to its shocking climax. Hades is the debut of a stunning new talent in crime fiction.
Hades Archer, the man they call the Lord of the Underworld, surrounds himself with the...Read more
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Hagar of the Pawnshop
Hagar hesitated. The article, notwithstanding its workmanship, its age, and its historical associations, was worth very little. Had its interest consisted of these merely, she would not have taken the key in pawn. But the row of mysterious figures decided her. Here was a secret, connected...Read more
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The Haha Man
Sandy McCutcheon reaches into the heart beneath the headlines of people-smuggling, detention centres and the terrible price of freedom. In a marketplace
in Afghanistan, a son watches his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Karim Mazari knows he must flee his homeland if he...Read more
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Half Light
Elisabeth is a picture restorer. This gives her the solitude and independence she needs - living and working alone in her flat. Despite her skills and reliability, Elizabeth undercharges for her work - valuing the worth of the paintings rather more than herself. Her ambitions are modest:...Read more
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Half Moon Bay
Ellie Wilding has been running from her past, but when the residents of Half Moon Bay call for help she knows it’s finally time to return home. As an international photojournalist, she’s used to violence in war zones, but she’s shocked when it erupts in the sleepy hamlet on the north coast...Read more
Half Past Dead
Half Past Dead is a brilliant debut, combining a devilish grasp of plot and character with an hilarious comic touch. Ronnie Collins is happily married. But after a bit of harmless office flirtation, she wakes up hungover in a workmate's bed. Then she discovers his bloodstained body on the...Read more
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The Half-Child
Jayne has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town. But Maryanne Delbeck's death is not the only mystery awaiting Jayne among Pattaya's neon signs and go-go bars. While working undercover at the orphanage where Maryanne...Read more
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Halfhead
Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.There are worse things than the death penalty…They call them convicted criminals, surgically mutilated and lobotomized by the State, then sent out to do...Read more
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Halfway House
They’re the housemates from Hell…
When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O’Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders....Read more
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Hallowe'en Party
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub...Read more
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Hamlet, Revenge!
A murder executed during a private performance of Hamlet presents John Appleby of Scotland Yard with more than fifty suspectsRead more
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Hand In Glove
The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever.
Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family...Read more
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A Hand In the Bush
In the heady days of the seventies, and at the tender age of nineteen, Decca Brand experimented with what was on offer - sex, drugs and intrigue. Far too much intrigue, it turns out, and of a sort that spells murder. Fast forward nearly thirty years and Decca is confronted by dangerous...Read more
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The Hand That Trembles
A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while traveling in Bangalore, India. When the rumors reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles...Read more
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Handful
Courage, first love, and a secret worth fighting for.
Spring in suburban Finland. Tuomas Ylivire is on the verge of growing up—and trouble.
With a judo kit, a sharp tongue, and the rule-bending instincts of his legendary detective father, he thinks he’...Read more
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Hands Down
Sid Halley is back and he has a new left hand having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. An ex-jockey trainer friend calls him to ask for his help in finding out who has threatened him but Sid has his own problems of a marital nature, and he puts the friend off for a...Read more
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The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series.
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there...Read more
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The Hanging
On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are...Read more
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