The Mouth
A short novel for young teenagers. This is the horrifying story of a girl haunted by the spirit of her friend who died tragically after becoming obsessed with her science teacher.Read more
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Move to Strike
Doctor Jeffrey Logan, daytime TV's most loved psychologist, has a top-rating talk show seen around the world - his picture perfect life completed by his talented lawyer wife, Stephanie Tyler, their 16-year-old daughter, Chelsea, and 13-year-old son, J.T.
But this image of...Read more
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Mr Big
The true and never before told story of Lennie McPherson - the Mr Big of Sydney crime - reveals a world of violence, police corruption, drugs, prostitution, murder and greed.
When Nellie McPherson reached her eightieth year, her clan got together to give the sprightly...Read more
Mr Sin
He was known as "Mr Sin", yet despite his involvement in illegal gambling, sly grog, prostitution and money laundering for nearly sixty years, Abe Saffron faught the nick name most of his adult life. He spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on defamation suits trying to disprove what...Read more
Mrs Kelly
Ellen Kelly was born during the troubles in Ireland. When she arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. When she died at the age of 91 in 1923, having outlived seven of her 12...Read more
Mrs Mort's Madness
Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero, Dr Claude Tozer, scandalised Sydney. Dorothy's respectable husband was devastated. Following a trial that mesmerised the...Read more
Muck-Up Day
People who claim most accidents happen in the home have forgotten what school is like. Take it from me, most of them make the average suburban house seem about as dangerous as a padded cell. It's a miracle there aren't more deaths and disasters. At my school, Paradise Park, accidents happen...Read more
Mud Crab Boogie
Do the Mud Crab Boogie! Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on TV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville 'Nizegy' Nixon. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to drive the...Read more
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The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
How did a father with no criminal history come to be on trial for the brutal murder of his wife? All marriages have their secrets. Things started to unravel for Gerard Baden-Clay the night his wife Allison vanished. Within days everything private would become public. Behind the façade of...Read more
Murder Among the Roses
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
Murder at Home
Into this fourth anthology, crime-writer Stephen Knight has lured 13 crime and literary writers, offering as irresistible bait the chance to bring the complications of violent death back to where it belongs - at home.
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- Home on the Range - ...Read more
A Murder at Malabar Hill
A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.
Introducing Miss Perveen Mistry, the star of an outstanding new crime series. This courageous, likeable and determined...Read more
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Murder at Myall Creek
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it
In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in...Read more
Murder at Random
Undercover agent Denise Cleever faces a daunting assignment - infiltrate the shadowy terrorist group who has found a unique method to produce widespread panic. How? By paying amateur contract killers a considerable bounty for every successful murder at random.
The method of...Read more
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Murder at the Cookout
Blurb to come.Read more
Murder at the Fortnight
This darkly hilarious tale of murder and mayhem set squarely under the bright lights of the show business world introduces Stella Pentangeli, "Lady Showbiz Detective," and Inspector Ng, a taciturn Chinese cop. The story explores the themes of winning, losing, and recovering fame and the...Read more
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Murder Brief
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
Murder by Manuscript
All internationally renowned "lady showbiz detective" Stella Pentangeli wants, is to solve a simple literary riddle: did William Shakespeare belong to a blood-thirsty 17th century cult which resurrected dead people? All enigmatic and brilliant Investigator Ng wants, is to find out why a...Read more
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Murder by the Book
Publishing company, Berry & Michaels, is celebrating its recent takeover by a UK-based conglomerate, and the arrival of its new English managing director. But, strangely, some of the staff don't seem to be in a party mood.Read more
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Murder Down Under
Bony is happy to take on a little informal investigation during his vacation in Western Australia, after a farmer suddenly disappears near a huge wheat field. Despite the lack of evidence, Bony suspects murder--which leads him to uncover some strange goings-on.Read more
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The Murder Game
Set in an eerie mountaintop hotel, isolated by a violent storm. The Murder Game is a witty, fast-moving mystery about an out-of-control game that goes terribly wrong. It was supposed to be fun in the beginning -- but the murder game ends up being played with real bodies.Read more
Murder in Mississippi
When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered – and what was more, the killer was black.
At first the murder seemed...Read more
Murder in Montparnasse
Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee, to rhyme with briny) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and...Read more
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Murder in Mt Martha
In 1953, a small dog leads his owner to the mutilated, dead body of a young girl. The senseless and brutal homicide not only shakes up the small seaside town of Mt Martha, but also begins an Australia-wide manhunt for the callous murderer. However, the witness testimonies are strangely...Read more
Murder in Murloo
When a popular young woman is strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo, the residents are sure an itinerant surfer who disappeared after the murder is the killer. However, one year later the surfer is still missing and the killer’s identity remains a mystery.
The...Read more
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Murder in Paris
A glamorous historical mystery of murder, fashion, food, secrets, and danger in 1930s Paris.
The inimitable Charlotte 'Charlie' James returns in her second exciting mystery.
At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Ritz, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets...Read more
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Murder in Punch Lane
Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a...Read more
Murder in Rockwater
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Murder in the Cathedral
The indefatigable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to solve what may be her most puzzling murder.
When Phryne Fisher is invited to Bendigo to witness the investiture of her old friend Lionel, who is being made a Bishop, her expectations of the solemn and dignified...Read more
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