Sorted on book title (not in series order)
A dark story of justice, morality, and murder when a family seeks justice for the unexplained and unexpected death of a loved one. The family is devastated which drives their determination. The police are suspicious but there is no evidence. They are impotent. Set in the wintry, misty city...Read more
You’ve never met a spy like this before!
When the Turkish ambassador crashes his car in central London, the incident launches an unforeseeable series of catastrophic events—and a naked body.
MI6 spy Charles Bishop flies headfirst into intrigue, gun battles and...Read more
How much more can an outback farmer take?
Joe Gillespie has battled seven years of drought and cattle theft. However when he finds his homestead trashed his army training kicks in and he uses every means possible to bring the vandals to justice.
A post Vietnam war...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
Gutsy ghostwriter Roxy Parker is back, and this time it's personal.
Someone is killing best-selling authors—a science-fiction writer has been found violently slashed with an ‘X’, a gardening guru bludgeoned with his own shears, and an erotic novelist poisoned by a juicy, red...Read more
Dylan Harper's career is already in tatters when he arrives home late one night to find someone waiting for him. The Chief of Police has an undercover assignment that needs to be conducted "off the books" and with the utmost secrecy. So Harper heads to the rugged West Coast of New Zealand...Read more
MURDER SIXTIES STYLE It is 1968. The Vietnam War is raging and so is Women’s' Liberation. In Sydney, Australia, university lecturer, peace activist and women’s liberationist Charmaine Shaw is making enemies. Student and admirer Sue English is not one of them. As she listens to Charmaine her...Read more
1839, Melbourne, Australia. A prison hulk appears in Port Phillip Bay leaving her captain and two escaped convicts in its wake. Meanwhile, a forger wanted by the law washes up on the beach with her dead son, a handful of counterfeit sovereigns, and a secret volatile enough to destabilize an...Read more
Sam and Scarlett have been married for a little over a year. Scarlett has recently inherited her fathers multimillion dollar business empire and Sam has retired from being a private detective to help Scarlett run the business. A four day weekend at the Windsor, designed as a ‘getaway’ from...Read more
How far would you go to protect a secret?
How far would you go to expose a lie?
Will Fletcher seems to have it all – perfect job, perfect life. Then in one act of extreme violence, his world is turned upside down.
A bungled assassination attempt on a...Read more
Matt Bullock, an Auckland university student clashes with his flying instructor Jason Collins who tries to hit on Matt's racy girlfriend Fleur Lassiter, resulting in the two men brawling at their aeroclub.
Illegal immigrant Vladimir Zhukov, a ruthless Russian veteran of the...Read more
Silence is safe. Avoidance is comforting. Until it gets you killed.
Mac has spent his life hiding behind his disability. Added to that, he's struggling to find his identity as a freckled redhead in a family of black haired, brown skinned Du Roses.
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Curtis Ryan is ambitious and optimistic, navigating the challenging world of commercial real estate in Sydney. His career has been on a steady upward trajectory, paralleled by a glamorous social lifestyle with his stunning girlfriend.
However, when a pivotal deal collapses,...Read more
A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden's leading film directors. When he discovers the director's glamorous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case.Among the...Read more
Sandy Barrett's hiking escapades were usually uneventful and relaxing, until the day she risked her life saving a trapped seagull and tumbled down a 100 metre cliff. After tree branches miraculously broke her fall, her body lay battered on a rocky ledge. A greater horror lay await to...Read more
Famous crime writer Bella Tyson is hired to co-host a Murder Mystery cruise, on a luxury liner sailing from Southampton to New York. She’s expecting an easy ride; fun and games, surrounded by amateur sleuths and fans of her books, all the while staying in a deluxe cabin and enjoying the spa...Read more
When Detective Matt Allenby arrived in the hamlet of Taylors Crossing in the hills near Perth in Western Australia, to investigate the murder of one of the town's inhabitants, he thought it would be a straightforward case. He didn’t expect the locals to have secrets of their own, which...Read more
An imposition. An insult. And a dead poet.
When the Literary and Historical Society decide to hold their end of year event at Wingate Hall, it's the last thing Emma needs.
With her husband missing in action and the weather worsening, she's forced...Read more
Ambitious criminal defence barrister Robyn Palmer gets her first big break when she's briefed as junior counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Unfortunately, her leader has lecherous designs and their client looks guilty as hell. However, nothing is going to stop her starring in the...Read more
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
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
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
Audrey is a psychopath and a serial killer residing in a small town in rural New Zealand. Audrey's three estranged sisters arrive at Tiromoana for their brother's funeral stirring up a dark family history of murder and deceit. Murder in the Family is the fourth book in the series: The...Read more
When the good-natured Mr Mancini discovers a dead woman in the Winter Garden Glasshouse on a winter’s morning in 1909, he is horrified. Even more so when the brittle-tongued Detective Haynes implies he is a suspect. That same day, when the guest speaker at the book group doesn’t appear,...Read more
As soon as the Flynn brothers lifted their Glocks, Dan was in trouble. Silence descended like a cloak of doom. No confusion crossed his mind... it was clear he would die in the next few seconds. In all his years of facing danger, he often wondered how he would react when faced with imminent...Read more
Audrey owns "The Three Suites" perched high on a rural mountain top in Northland, New Zealand. Her many years of unsuccessful relationships have taken their toll on Audrey both physically and mentally.
Now it is her time to get back at all the men that have done her wrong. ...Read more
Audrey is a psychopath and a serial killer residing in a coastal town in the rural far north of New Zealand.
Audrey discovers a drug cartel is using her Tiromoana Cabin Resort for cocaine trafficking. She appears to be helping the police when the drugs go missing and bodies start...Read more
Audrey continues to operate her rural cabin resort in the far north of New Zealand. A true crime writer, Poppy Perkins, checks into Audrey's resort to research her latest true crime thriller based on the spree of murders that have taken place in the small rural town. When she finds proof...Read more
It was a nice day for a barbeque; a nice day for a family get together. Everyone was there, including dreaded Aunt Val, who, it seemed, enjoyed giving the younger ones a hard time. But when she went to lie down, she didn't get up, and it turned out to be a nice day for a murder. This is a...Read more
Nick and Zac get more than they bargained for when they try to save the dog next door from its brutal owner. But this neighbour has something illicit to hide and he is willing to kill to keep it a secret.
Nick Riley's Ninth Life was Highly Commended in the Young Adult...Read more