Sorted on book title (not in series order)
There are no dead bodies in this story.
Listen, we're kids. Murders don't come our way all that often. This is about a missing violin. Okay, not so exciting, but take it from me, it's a pretty good whodunit all the same.
Angelo Martinelli, also known as The Angel,...Read more
'The Green Mummy' is a tale of missing emeralds, murder, and a mummy.Read more
Set between 1965 and the 1980s, first in the heart of workaday Brisbane and later in the subtropical surroundings of the Gold Coast hinterland, "The Groundsman" is a story of family violence, suppressed sexual tension, rage and greed.
The Nettleton brothers, Mark and Colin,...Read more
Maria, a young student, and her friend Leon lead a life of orderly days and chaotic nights. Both outwardly successful they also both have a tendency towards destructiveness. When Leon is killed by a car, Maria is left with grief and is it possible that Leon could have intended to die?Read more
Whilst Nick spent an afternoon in bed with his neighbour, his son Owen went missing and was never found. Now, ten years later, he has returned from the USA with a desire to assuage his guilt and face up to his past. Little does he realize that his investigations will unleash further...Read more
A tale of murder and miscarriage of justice. This book recounts the infamous 1921 rape and murder of 12 year old Alma Tirtschke. For the first time in Australia, forensic evidence was used to send a man to the gallows, the author attempts to reveal it was the wrong man.Read more
A holiday in Terrigal sounded great to Les Norton, and all he needed to do was look after young Jimmy Rosewater for a week. But young and handsome Jimmy was supposed to be in gaol and, before he knew it, Norton was busy fighting off the usual yobbos. And all the time Les had a feeling Jimmy...Read more
True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his injured mum's primary carer, and he only has two real friends: sporty Kane and feisty Shell, who are both dealing with their own problems.
Gus's life is flipped on its head one day when...Read more
It’s 1968 and times are changing, not always for the better. And especially not for the charred body found buried in the smoking ruins of the Sandpiper reception centre where the local football club has just held its end of year celebrations.
As police officers Lloyd Cole and...Read more
Hagar hesitated. The article, notwithstanding its workmanship, its age, and its historical associations, was worth very little. Had its interest consisted of these merely, she would not have taken the key in pawn. But the row of mysterious figures decided her. Here was a secret, connected...Read more
Sandy McCutcheon reaches into the heart beneath the headlines of people-smuggling, detention centres and the terrible price of freedom. In a marketplace
in Afghanistan, a son watches his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Karim Mazari knows he must flee his homeland if he...Read more
Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before.
The decision of the Victorian government in December 1966...Read more
The Hangman's Knot by Arthur Gask is a riveting tale that delves into the shadowy realms of crime, justice, and moral ambiguity. Set against the backdrop of a small, insular community, the story follows the enigmatic figure of Peter Fenton, a once-reputable architect who returns home to...Read more
When Cassidy Blair takes on another job as a sexual sleuth she never expects to end up in the back of the shaggin' wagon with former pop idol Jason Wilde, but with a feisty enthusiasm, a bit of luck and a grand's worth of quality lingerie, Cassidy's ready for anything.
Determined...Read more
Set in the worlds of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, this book follows the fortunes of a handful of desperate characters whose destinies gradually weave together in a tapestry of passion, envy, betrayal and cruelty.Read more
PI Harry Kenmare is back, with a visceral lust for vengeance.
Sydney’s elite and powerful are awash in corruption, like rats sunning themselves in an open sewer. And so, in these sordid episodes, Harry’s business is as busy as ever.
All the better, then, to finance...Read more
Win Moon, war hero and trained assassin, has seen his fair share of death, but no death has affected him like his mate's, Charlie Soong. When Charlie and his beautiful young daughter are blown to pieces in a Triad hit on a local grocery store, Win is determined to grant Charlie's widow,...Read more
Heart and Soul consists of personal recollections of life in the police force, as told by police men and women, as well as those who have experienced the pain of losing loved ones killed while doing their job.Read more
‘The Heartwood is the core of this district. It always has been so, but it’s still just a building. It’s your family – you and Adam and old Tiger – who animate it, keep the heart beating, so to speak.’
Holding on in Tewinga
In the abandoned railhead town...Read more
No one has less interest in mysteries than Corinna Chapman, who has bread to bake, but they seem to be arising spontaneously in the vicinity of her bakery, Earthly Delights. Between the mouthwatering distractions of loaves and muffins, of Jason her apprentice and Horatio the cat, she's...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
Hugh Walker, 32, a successful lawyer with an attractive girlfriend and executive office view, seemingly has it all. So why does he identify more with his resident cockroach than Atticus Finch, his childhood hero?
Could it be because he is cheating on his girlfriend and...Read more
Captain Shane Schofield and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .
There is no hell like a man-made one.
It is an island that doesn’t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments...Read more
Amber Rojano, a beautiful young Romany gypsy, loved to dance, and it would be fair to say that this is what cost her her life, even though her body was never discovered.
Some years after her mysterious disappearance, Amber’s physically abusive, universally disliked partner, Adam...Read more
You only take the High Wire if you’re desperate – or up to no good.
A notorious unmarked track through outback Australia, the ‘Wire’ crosses slabs of lawless land, body dumping grounds and mobile phone blackspots.
Harvey Buck is certainly desperate. Racing to...Read more
Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price.Determined to regain her independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to save hers....Read more
Angel A’s bold second novel, after Mary Poser, chronicles Australian research student Leonard Lumière’s head-spinning time in Buritaca, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, and a case of parrot-proclaimed divinity. Maria Santos, sixteen and claiming to be a pregnant virgin seeks refuge in Leo’s...Read more
Jay McCaulay was the only witness to a slick and professional assassination. She saw ex-soldier Sol Neill stabbed to death by a small blonde woman, so when a friend of Sol's - Max Blake - is arrested for Sol's murder, she knows she can't stand back and say nothing.
Determined to...Read more
At 10.42 a.m. on 22 October 2003, while diving on the wreck of the SS Yongala on the Great Barrier Reef, an American tourist photographed his new wife for their honeymoon album. Instead the photo would become a vital police exhibit. On the right-hand side of the shot, Tina Watson's body lay...Read more
A perfectly preserved body, covered in Mayan occult tattoos, is discovered embedded in the concrete floor beneath the set of a teen werewolf TV series. The police identify the man as Earl Curtis, a famous director who went missing in 1939 while working on GONE WITH THE WIND. Hired to...Read more