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The biggest omnibus of Australian crime that leaves little to the imagination from Paul B. Kidd - a recognised authority on Australia's serial killers. The Best Of Crime File details over 90 case studies crossing the spectrum of Australian crime - from high profile murder cases to lesser...Read more
Notorious True crime stories, brought together, in this the 3rd volume of tales. Read about Derek Percy, is he the Wanda Beach killer?, who framed the Mickelburgs? and how a jailer broke her convict lover out, so they may be together. These stories and many more.Read more
For Inspector Scobie Malone of the homicide squad, autumn is like any other season - the killing still goes on. In this novel, the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza, are owed money and are hunting down and killing everyone connected to it.Read more
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Two decades after High Court judge Sir Walter Springfellow disappeared, hikers uncover a skeleton wearing his signet ring. When Scobie reopens the inquiry, he finds that Venetia Springfellow has parlayed the fortune her husband left her into an empire her venomous sister-in-law Emma wants...Read more
Two men are killed by cyanide poisoning before Bony comes to Broken Hill to take up the case, and a third dies soon after he arrives. All die in crowded public places, and all are elderly and single. Witnesses recall a woman being near each man before he died, but their descriptions seem to...Read more
When Jay McCaulay wakes up in a strange hotel room in Moscow, drugged and confused, she has no idea how she got there. When she makes it back to the UK, things only get stranger when she discovers that her beloved uncle is missing, and that she was kidnapped when out looking for him. ...Read more
She wouldn’t kill for her big break, but she might just die for it.
Charlotte Ashe is desperate to get out of her light-relief gig as TVWE’s ‘weather babe’. When an elite footballer hands her a scoop that could make her career, she never expects it to lead into...Read more
Two bound Thai prostitutes are thrown into a Northern Territory river teeming with crocodiles. An elderly father and son are chopped to pieces by tomahawk-wielding ferals in Tasmania. A 'brave heart' youth worker is found savagely battered to death in Sydney for no apparent reason,...Read more
Confessions of corrupt policeman Jack Herbert, whose evidence in the Fitzgerald Inquiry was to bring a police force to its knees. Jack Herbert's sensational confessions helped send a police commissioner and a cabinet minister to gaol. They led to the most sweeping shakeout of a police force...Read more
They were tagged Dumb and Dumber by the US media in a story that made headlines – and jokes – around the world. Two Australian boys on a working holiday in the snowfields of the American Rocky Mountains decided to rob a bank. Their plan was so hopelessly inept that although they escaped...Read more
On Saturday morning, December 7, 1963, Eric Lewis called around to his property in Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland, to collect the rent. He was not prepared for the scene that greeted him when he opened the door: his two tenants, George Walker and Kevin Speight, had been violently murdered...Read more
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates the death of a weather forecaster, whom a local doctor has certified died because of a three-day drinking bingeRead more
The Beachy Head Murder by Arthur Gask is a gripping mystery novel that unfolds against the breathtaking backdrop of the iconic Beachy Head cliffs. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows detective Mark Manning as he investigates a perplexing murder that takes place amidst the...Read more
Explores the intricate web of gang warfare and police neglect that resulted in the disappearance and death of gay men in Sydney in the late 1980s. Read more
A brewery executive has gone missing … or has he? Joseph Lucien Abbott – Joe to his mates – is paid by the man’s wife with a beer-sodden cheque to find out the truth.
In doing so he locks horns with dodgy nightclub owners, a toupeed beer baron, and endless assorted ratbags –...Read more
The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day’s work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.
Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he’d end up in a blue-...Read more
Four children by her father.
Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse.
In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the...Read more
From China's western-most province, near its border with Pakistan, comes this deadly ultimatum. In the White House Situation Room, the President and his team dismiss it as one of thousands of threats made against the US every week.
But CIA agent Curtis O'Connor isn't so sure....Read more
It's been a long, hard winter in the small Alaskan town of Lake's Edge - and things are about to get even tougher. Lisa McCall, a young and brilliant research scientist, has disappeared out in the Alaskan wilderness in the middle of a snowstorm. Lisa's sister, Abby - shaken by the news -...Read more
Down and out New York PI John Docker has a past he'd rather forget. So when he finds himself in Berlin in 1948, just after the Russians blockade the city in a move that ultimately sparks the Cold War, it's against his better judgment. Docker is there to track down some stolen treasure - the...Read more
Ted Waite hadn't meant to shoot Arnold Grenfel, it was a reflex action. And now the bank's alarm had gone off, there was not time to take the money. Where could he go? The police were already alerted. A car perhaps, but that was futile. He could not get out of the town, and he'd still got a...Read more
Bindy is the smartest girl at Ashbury High. She ranks in the 99.9th percentile in everything she does (including extra-curricular activities – she is casual Employee of the Month every month at Kmart). She is also the kindest girl at Ashbury High. For example:
• Before each...Read more
'I've cheated, lied and deceived people. I've ruined marriages, ruined lives, ruined relationships, ruined the health of others, not to mention my own.'
What is it really like to live as an undercover cop? Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a...Read more
Patricia Lunn takes on a hopeless case after an old friend from her days in uniform asks her to dig into a supposedly wrongful conviction of a serial rapist turned killer.
But as she knocks at the doors of the city's most influential people, someone wants her dead before she...Read more
Les Norton's apartment block in Randwick was proving to be nothing but trouble, full of mayhem and murder. It seemed the longer he owned it the more money he lost. But while he's trying to solve his financial problems, Les still has time to fight hate-crazed roadies, sort out a drug deal...Read more
The shocking true story of Katherine Knight, a grandmother jailed for the most gruesome crime ever committed in Australia. Knight murdered, skinned and served up her de facto as a meal for his children. She is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to serve out her life in prison.Read more
He's also the owner and sole employee of the Tasmanian Private Investigation Agency and, as his dear old Mother said, 'occasionally his own worst enemy'. That was until Frank meets Joe Shadii, aka 'The Pharaoh'.
Frank is hired by a London based solicitor to find the twin sister...Read more
Sydney, 2018 – Forty girls disappear without a trace. Disgruntled cop, Dan Porter, leads the investigation, and when one is brutally murdered, her killer’s dare him to hunt them down.
A mysterious informant sends Porter to Crooked River, a dusty and hostile...Read more
At the time of the Crimean war, Fanny Davenport is living with her cousins at Darkwater on the edge of Dartmoor. The legendary white bird said to haunt Darkwater as an omen of death means little to her until the strange events following the arrival of two young cousins and the appearance of...Read more