Crime Fiction

Handstead New Town was a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. As only they could, the Police used it as a penal posting. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead were the Tree Top Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorised their neighbourhood, the town and surrounding districts...Read more

In the middle of the night in a remote part of Western Australia's goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried.

Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is...Read more

This intriguing story of murder and deception is set in the lush jungle of New Guinea, during the political turmoil of the late 1960s. The local hotel is where the lives of eight unlikely people intertwine to form a tangled web of intrigue and lies. Four young women. a member of the IRA and...Read more

Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation, including a dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from the "other side"; a haunted house; a chilling seance; an elderly lady's hold over a young man; and a mysterious SOS.

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In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam...Read more

Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband and left with a four-year-old daughter to support. She finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. She falls under the house's eerie, yet strangely comforting spell, and discovers within herself not only the ability to...Read more

Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set...Read more

Alex Rommel, a debonair Charleston playboy, is skeptical about online dating.  When he encounters an old college buddy by chance, he learns his friend has found love over the internet.  Tormented by demons from his past, a contentious land deal, the memories of the woman he loved, and his...Read more

As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, keeps her beloved horse in the hallway, and carries a grumpy, talking cockatoo called Homer on her shoulder. But the island house holds as many secrets as it does animals, and the truth behind Idie...Read more

Sue Halliday was two weeks old when she first appeared in Festival TV's "The House That Jack Built," and spent the next sixteen years as part of the cast of that long-running serial. Known and adored nationwide, she has everything going for her--until she becomes infatuated with a fellow...Read more

The House with the High Wall is a gripping mystery novel that takes readers on a journey into the heart of a secluded mansion hiding dark secrets. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows detective Mark Manning as he is called upon to investigate a series of mysterious occurrences...Read more

She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house.

When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has...Read more

Three housemates.
One dead, one missing and one accused of murder.

Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade.

Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became...Read more

Andy Saunders knows how to survive. He survived all alone in Los Angeles as a teenager, and he survived in foreign combat zones as a soldier. He survived homelessness on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, an unforgiving desert metropolis that is the fifth-largest city in the nation....Read more