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Australia

Crooked

Money couldn’t buy a better police force . . .Corruption, prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims. It's all in a day's work.Set against the backdrop of the Askin government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick Reilly, Lennie McPherson...Read more

Crooks Like Us

Riveting stories and extraordinary images from Sydney's mysterious and chilling underworld in the early 20th century.

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The Cross

An Inner City community is under threat from the developers and their crooked friends. One woman leads the battle against them, a battle fought in nightclubs and council chambers, in hotel rooms and high on rooftops. A thriller, a love story, a tale of the city...Read more

Cross Off

PETER CORRIS BLOWS THE LID OFF WITNESS PROTECTION
It's not easy making people disappear, but if Luke Dunlop screws up, someone dies.
In Witness Protection there's no margin for error....
Every case is a matter of life and death.

Ava Belfante just...Read more

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The Crossing

Redemption is born of guilt, and weighs heavy on even the strongest man.

Traumatised by the disappearance of his daughter Claire, Taylor Bridges' marriage breaks down, and he exiles himself to Glorys Crossing in Tasmania. Taylor is the only ranger in this isolated town...Read more

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Crossing the Line

War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-ups within Australia's most secretive and elite military unit, the SAS, reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. He and Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only...Read more

Crossing the Lines

A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. He, too, is an author. Edward is in love with a woman, Willow, who's married to a man Edward loathes, and who loathes him, but he and Willow stay close friends. She's an artist. As Madeleine develops the plot, Edward attends a gallery show where a scummy critic is flung down a flight of fire stairs...murdered.Read more

Crosskill

Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature.

Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt’s...Read more

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Crosstown Traffic

Twelve Australian writers respond to the challenge of creating a hybrid crime story. Murder, mayhem, and malice intercept with science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, fairy tale, and romance writing to create an unholy miasma, the likes of which you have never encountered before. Expect...Read more

The Crowned Skull

• TRILOGY - Three of British-Australian author Fergus Hume's mysteries are in this Kindle book: The Crowned Skull & The Silent House & The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 

The Crowned Skull 
A classic murder mystery involving the occult. Sir Hannibal Trevick, a...Read more

Crows Nest

Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. Her first house call is to nearby Crows Nest to assess the children of Sandra Kirby, which results in her getting both her new boss and a local detective...Read more

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Crucifixion Creek

A meth-addicted biker shoots a woman during a police siege. An elderly couple commit suicide on the terrace of their favorite café. An unidentified white male is stabbed to death in the street.

For Sydney homicide detective Harry Belltree, not long out of the military and a...Read more

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The Cryptic Clue

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series, a runaway bestseller of the year. Available for pre-order now!

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty...Read more

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Cuckoo

Story of Raymond Edmunds, a convicted rapist and double murderer who was active in Victoria, Australia from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Edmunds was dubbed "Mr Stinky" by a newspaper editor due to his offensive body odour which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure...Read more

The Curer of Souls

In London in 1865 Lydia Frankland finds a love letter written twenty years earlier by her late stepmother, Jane, to a natural historian at Port Arthur, Louis Lempriere. In the letter Jane confesses she is in love with Louis.

Lydia is horrified at her stepmother's apparent...Read more

The Curse of the Golden Yo-Yo

Meet Cornelia Finnigan, the loudest, loveliest and luckiest PI around.

With a swagger, a smile and a slash of lipstick she takes on the mystery of a torched Ferrari, investigates the case of the poisoned Pekinese puppies and stumbles into the world of missing persons, drug deals...Read more

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Cut Out the Middleman

Nick Adamson only planned on being in Thailand for a week. But a week later he is running a beach bar, selling drugs to tourists, falling out with the police, falling in love with a hot blonde, and dueling with an out-of-control, drug lord.

Cut Out the Middleman follows...Read more

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Cutler

Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a Taiwanese distant water fishing vessel, Cutler realises that the apparent murder he' s investigating points to a slew of much darker crimes.Read more

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Cutters End

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterious death on New Year’s Eve 1989 leads to a shocking murder investigation 32 years later...

A desert highway. A remote town. A murder that won’t stay hidden....Read more

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The Cutting

Nullin's newest residents, masseuse Heidi Go and her screenwriter husband Beckett, have traded Sydney's fast lane for a fresh start in a picturesque little coastal town. Knowing what to expect from a sea change, they look forward to making the acquaintance of the odd local character. Or...Read more

The Cutting Room

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing photographs during a house clearance he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them.

Driven to discover whether the images represent a real event or...Read more

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Cutting the Cord

Amira Knox is an assassin. Her targets: affluent Europeans. Her commander: the Authenticity Movement. Her weakness: emotion.

Amira has been loyal to the secret terrorist group the Authenticity Movement for as long as she can remember. Adopted by the leader of the movement as an...Read more

Cyanide Games

How far would you go to save a friend?

When Melissa Cheung’s husband is arrested in China for corruption, her first call is to Peter Tanner.

As a criminal defence barrister, Tanner often crosses paths with some of the most evil but wealthy members of...Read more

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Cyanide and Poppies

Melbourne, the spring of 1923.

When reporter Edward Bain is found dead in his office at
The Argus newspaper, Eleanor Jones realises that this is murder.
Eleanor, no longer a nurse, now writes film reviews for the newspaper, but she still knows the signs of...Read more

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D-E-D Dead!

In D-E-D DEAD!, Geoffrey McGeachin's riotous adventure thriller, Alby Murdoch – international photographer and Australian special agent – ducks bullets and bombs from Bondi to Bali and back  as he attempts to unravel a a lethal web of high-level dodgy dealings...

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Daddy Cool

Who can ever truly know their parents?

He was a glamorous heart-throb, a famous American singer performing at the Academy Awards in front of Betty Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Clarke Cable and other stars. In the 1930s, his records were outselling Bing Crosby's.

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Dance with the Devil

In the eye of a storm, as Dr Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them.

Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, has stumbled onto her isolated farm in the O’Connor Valley, with no clue to the...Read more

Dangerous

This adventure thriller explores the complex love-hate relationship between flamboyant combat photographer Sean Ryan and idealistic war correspondent Hugh Webb. The relationship endures over three decades, in Vietnam, El Salvador and Bosnia.Read more

Dangerous Deception

Some secrets are worth dying to protect …

Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak.
His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is killed, and...Read more

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