Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Romantic comedy meets noir crime novel in this sassy tale of love, disaster, and junk food. Fresh from being dumped and discovering that her ex-boyfriend is a well-known drug dealer, Phoebe has never been lower. Worse still, she's accidentally ended up with some of her ex's merchandise and...Read more
When amateur sleuth Cassidy Blair is given the task of trying out a beauty salon for the dancers at The Pussycat Club, it’s difficult to explain why she finds herself waking up the next morning on a local beach, at sunrise, naked apart from some awkward sunburn, and a pathetic story about a...Read more
The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, featuring four brand-new stories.
The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, Cupid's Bow lips, diamante garters and pearl-handled pistol - is the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth....Read more
'Like always they were asking for something - but this time it was one hundred thousand dollars. Anna Karpis had insured her beautiful legs with the Silver Star Insurance Company, and now she was missing.
'I knew she was dead - I had a leg to prove it. Things get kind of...Read more
The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut in an engrossing tale of murder. In Glasgow, the city with the worst slums in Europe, a city of hard men, powerful villains, bitter victims and cynical policemen, Laidlaw uses unconventional...Read more
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their...Read more
What is the Lake Frome Monster? Why are the aborigines so terrified of it? and what dreadful part did it really play in the sudden death of a former roving reporter?
When inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him.
There is even a...Read more
"Debate rages when Trevor Lamb, convicted five years ago for the brutal murder of his wife, is released with a pardon. Passions run high, especially in Hope's End, the tiny rural backwater that is home to the notorious Lamb clan.
When, twenty-four hours after his release, Trevor...Read more
Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the...Read more
Jack is a federal police agent whose father dies in suspicious circumstances. Michelle is a young medical student full of promise.
When Jack investigates his father’s murder their lives will collide, and their daring adventure to expose the truth will lead to a thundering climax...Read more
Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a seventeen-year-old girl is found dead at a construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished condominium.
Homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton’s new partner Colin Taggert, fresh from the Colorado Springs...Read more
Christian Lang, a famous novelist and television show host, wants to keep secret his affair with the enchanting Sarita, but she has her own reasons for keeping quiet too. Lang finds himself caught up in a sinister love-triangle with Sarita and her psychotic ex-husband. He knows that his...Read more
Four books from the Langton series:
All it took was a lapse…a momentary lapse…to bring Clementine Jones’ world crashing down. Now she’s living like a hermit in small-town Katinga, coaching the local footy club. She’s supposed to be lying low, but here she is, with her team on the cusp of their first premiership in fifty years...Read more
The protagonist of the title is an unsuccessful crime writer who becomes embroiled in a real-life situation when a union organiser from the Phillipines is murdered in Sydney. This is the first novel from the author, who has recently also published an autobiography, TA Map of Days: Life on...Read more
BREAKING: Nuclear weapon detonates over Washington.
BREAKING: London hit, thousands feared dead.
BREAKING: Munich and Scotland hit. World leaders call for calm.
Jon Keller was on a trip to Switzerland...Read more
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool...Read more
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.
Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his...Read more
Joe Panther is a man with many secrets. Dangerous secrets. He is a drug dealer. He is a killer. He is a private investigator. Above all, he is the messiah, fallen on hard times.
When a young woman is found crucified and decapitated in a melbounre inner-city church, the police...Read more
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.
An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well...Read more
The last ditch hidden behind a hedge, is a sheer drop, murderously deep—especially when someone stretches a wire across to trip a horse.
The last to jump is a young stablehand, who is duly crushed beneath several stone of well-groomed mare.
The last straw for...Read more
It's a long time since the infamous corruption Inquiry tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player in the great scandals of his day, the Inquiry has never quite finished. George must seek out survivors to confront the truth about their...Read more
Trust No One.
After acting on false intelligence, officer Paul Tallis shoots a suspected terrorist in a Birmingham shopping centre. Suspended from his job, his career is over.Read more
Senior Nurse Amber leaves her medical clinic in the city following a late shift to grab a quick meal in the new Britomart Mall. Her window-shopping spree takes longer than expected. Hurrying to catch the last ferry to her home in Gulf Harbour, she is blindsided by a shocking turn of events...Read more
Barney Thomson is a restless soul in search of a quiet town in which to settle. He thinks he might just have found it in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae and life can at last bring him some peace. Or, at least, it might have done, but for the dead body at the bottom of the stairs, the ghost...Read more
Newlyweds Lina and Cain don't make it out to their vacation home on gorgeous Lake Tarawera as often as they'd like, so when Cain suggests they rent the property out on weekends, Lina reluctantly agrees. While the home has been special to her family for generations, their neighbors are all...Read more
When the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is—or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for...Read more
Sometimes the only person you can trust is yourself
Her father is missing. Her estranged husband Dennis is his last known contact. The detective on the case is a man she once loved and turned her back on after a tragedy tore them apart.
Ellie...Read more
From the author of What's a Girl Gotta Do? comes the hilarious new adventure of Robin Hudson. On paper at least, things couldn't be better for Robin Hudson, the sassy, young Rita Hayworth-looking, sexy; and opinionated tabloid TV reporter for All News Network. Suddenly successful, she gets...Read more
Detective Alec Probyn has his enemies too. His recent stand on police violence has led to his being suspended from duty.
He has a growing suspicion that a vicious crime is about to be committed. All the more disturbing as the suspect and victim are both members of his own...Read more