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She Lied First
Sisters make the best flatmates ... except when they are both keeping terrible secrets.
The stunning new standalone psychological thriller from the author of the popular Detective Kate Miles series.
The dream apartment. The start of a grand adventure. And two lives that are about to unravel.
Devika is living her best life, moving out of home in her final year of university. Close to the beach and away from her mother. Independent and self-sufficient, just like Kalyani. There's just one awful secret that Kal can never find out about.
Kalyani has it made. A new job. A unit she can afford, and her little sister as her roomie. She's finally achieved the life she's always wanted. Except for the one big thing she's yet to confide in Devi. A truth that gets harder to reveal the longer she waits.
When their lives are torn apart by betrayal, and Kal refuses to forgive her sister, Devi must peel back everything she thought she knew to rediscover Kalyani, lie by lie and secret by secret.
Just Like the Night
When is it time to stop protecting family, and time to start running …
Out on parole after serving over eight years in prison, Sera Olin can't shake her past. As a child travelling around America, her charismatic father introduced her to a life of crime, easy cons and fixed card games before they escaped to Australia to go straight -- but walking the line isn't that easy for Sera. As she tries to settle into an honest life in Sydney all she wants is to see her estranged daughter, Lena. But Lena is grown up now, and involved with people far worse than Sera understands.
When Sera is drawn further into the pit of Lena's choices, she is forced to confront the possibility that a mother's sacrifice might not be enough.
Set in the bleak underbelly of Sydney, Just Like the Night is a gripping exploration of loneliness, conscience, and the ties that bind.
In My Next Life
Leah’s life is unravelling.
Recently fired from her job in the art world, estranged from her ex-husband (for sleeping with her best friend), and facing a custody battle, she’s struggling to prove she’s stable. Then there’s four-year-old Chloe, who has never called Leah ‘mum’. Instead, Chloe speaks with haunting precision of a life she has never lived: a house with a yellow door, a backyard swing, and a horse named Patches. When a news report revisits the disappearance of a mother and child from the coastal town of Denmark, Western Australia five years ago, Leah is chilled to the core. Chloe’s ‘memories’ mirror the cold case with eerie precision.
Driven to debunk the impossible, Leah takes Chloe to the remote shores, only to find a community suspended in grief and suspicion. As she draws closer to the missing woman’s husband—a man still living under a cloud of local blame—Leah’s own grip on reality is called into question. But as Chloe begins to recognise the hidden corners of a house she has never entered, the past presses dangerously into the present. Beneath the town’s picturesque surface lie betrayals that someone is still desperate to protect, and the closer Leah gets to the truth, the real question isn’t whether Chloe lived another life, it’s what or who really ended it.
Leah ignores the dangers to expose the culprit, but will it be too late to reunite with her daughter in this life?
In Plain Sight
Identical twin sisters with a secret they’re working hard to protect.
A sex-crimes detective returning to her home town and a past she’d hoped would remain buried.
And a case that doesn’t want to be solved.
The photos found on a USB are clear proof of a crime, and Detective Lara Wilton hopes she can wrap it up and get back to her life in the city. But the girls in the photos, now on the cusp of eighteen, are spinning an elaborate web of secrets, lies and manipulation. And the case will go nowhere without their cooperation.
De'Ath Takes a Holiday
‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker
This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula).
The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick to death of it, and so to soothe his sickened soul, the Comte De’Ath decides to take a trip. From psychoanalysis in Vienna to blood transfusions in London, the Comte learns that a holiday is as good as a change. On the way, he meets the Queen, brings her husband back to life, helps win the Second Matabele War, matches wits with the Elephant Man, inspires Henry Ford to pursue the American Dream, almost solves the crisis in the Middle East and even falls in love. Will he become mortal again in time for his funeral in Carfax Abbey? Ah – but what a fine book this would be if we gave away the end of the story in the blurb.
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