Sorted on book title (not in series order)
November, 1382. The month of the dead. A nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux...
It will be no ordinary journey. An uneasy peace reigns in the savage aftermath of the peasants's revolt. As Hildegard travels alone through the countryside, with only her two hounds...Read more
AMSTERDAM NOIR IN THREE, ICE-COLD INSTALLMENTS ...
Maverick cop Henk van der Pol is thinking about retirement when he finds a woman's body in Amsterdam Harbour. His detective instincts take over, even though it's not his case. But his bigger challenge is deciding who his friends...Read more
After a medical mishap, Dr Vince Hanrahan crashes professionally and personally, is all but struck off, and the Medical Board kicks him all the way down the Princes Highway to be a rural GP. Supervised. On notice. He rents a dump, lives off takeaway, and plans to see out his time before...Read more
Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever.
From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new charac t er, Harry Curry--scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say.
When Harry′s robust advocacy leads to his...Read more
PI Harry Kenmare is a prehistoric private detective in an unfriendly modern world.
His life revolves around drinking, fine food, smoking, and fast women, preferably the ones he has to pay for, in cash. So what better CV for trawling through Sydney's corrupt social and political...Read more
When a red-haired girl's severed head is found in an ancient bog in southeast Galway, it may be an historical relic or the answer to a local mystery. As an archaeologist and a pathologist investigate, they reawaken interest in the two-year-old disappearance of a woman and her young son....Read more
Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year’s Eve hangover. Though it’s the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their...Read more
Gangland killings, drugs, corruption ...
You've read the newspapers, now read the book! - a .22 calibre pistol. Good for a head shot. Nice and neat. Professional!
An acquitted cop-killer is executed in a St Kilda back-street. Another gangland killing, or a rogue...Read more
What happens when a drug dealer is forced to turn detective?
Meet Bill Murdoch, the world's most reluctant private investigator.
Bill Murdoch’s doing just fine, thanks for not asking. He’s dealing drugs for a professional crime...Read more
When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to the only man she knows can help her - his old friend - Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk from her safe that contains extremely sensitive data, and she has seventy-two hours in which to deliver, or her father will die. But...Read more
Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? Anna Simpson insists that her best friend Zach Santisi help her find the culprits. However, Zach must also care for his numerous pets and cope with his dad threatening to sell them if his next report card isn’t better. Just about everyone these...Read more
'Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He was alone, enveloped in the monstrous silence of the desert. Free and alone,...Read more
She lies in an Afghani prison cell, disowned by the CIA and regularly tortured. Seven months into her prison term, a lone operator stages a daring extraction. But who is Decker, the mysterious man behind her rescue?
He claims to represent The Committee, an international group...Read more
After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to interrogate the prime suspect - a silent, inscrutable man found at the scene of the crime, who disappeared without trace 15 years earlier.
But where has he been? Why won't he talk...Read more
An abandoned infant. Three girls stolen in the night. Can one overworked detective find the Christmas connection to save them all?
London, 1999. Short-staffed during Christmas week, Detective Jack Rutherford can’t afford to spend time on the couch with his beloved wife. With a...Read more
Something is very rotten in the state of Tasmania. Brad Finch, the franchise player of the Tassie Devils Football Club, is the victim at the heart of a new murder mystery. Forensic analysis, dogged detective work and inspiration may prove insufficient in the search for the true perpetrators...Read more
The High Commissioner is accused of murder, and in Sydney Scobie Malone is given the job of going to London and bringing him back. At the same time the High Commissioner's murder is being planned, to create discord at the Peace Conference, and anarchy in Saigon.Read more
Cass Lehman has a terrifying ‘gift’... She sees what others can’t...
Cass Lehman had the misfortune of being born into a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents. Her mother sees the future, her grandmother is a healer and Cass has the less sexy...Read more
In an alternate India ruled by corrupt politicians, criminal syndicates and violent mobsters, remorseless contract killer Virat Nariman has been called out to execute a mark in exchange for information on his daughter’s killers.
Anya’s headless body found in a dumpster, drives...Read more
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor...Read more
If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe...Read more
Introducing New Zealand’s Jonah Solomon, a cop In the broody, bloody, and brilliant tradition of Ian Rankin’s Detective Inspector John Rebus
Detective Sergeant Jonah Solomon is used to navigating the ruins of Christchurch, New Zealand, a city nowhere near recovery more than a...Read more
It is 1987 and Peter Clancy, hard-drinking Melbourne Truth journalist, returns to his hometown to settle his mother’s estate. Peter’s two-day visit to Clarke’s Flat stretches to eight as he is unwillingly drawn into the sinister secrets of this outback Queensland town. Peter’s childhood...Read more
In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions...Read more
The execution of a Mexican drug cartel hit man in a Carlton laneway draws Vic Cavalier to Thailand and back to a past he'd rather forget in this tense, action-packed thriller.
Vic Cavalier has certainly had better weeks. His newspaper editor is hell-bent on...Read more
Newly arrived in the country from London, self-centered businesswoman Alison Hope disrupts the quiet life of Detective Inspector Nick Trevellyan of the local Criminal Investigation Division when she becomes the chief suspect in the murder of her former partner.Read more
The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City’s gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack.
DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge but, as his team tries to identify her and...Read more
Home is where the horror is…
Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company.
Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger...Read more
Handstead New Town was a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. As only they could, the Police used it as a penal posting. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead were the Tree Top Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorised their neighbourhood, the town and surrounding districts...Read more
SUPERPOWERS SHOULD NOT BE WASTED ON THE YOUNG
Euphemia Sage watched helplessly as Jane, covered in blood, clutched her precious jewelry and was bundled into the Mercedes. Just a few days earlier she’d discovered that Alison, her mousy receptionist at Sage...Read more