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Domestic Noir

All Their Sins

How well do you really know your family?

Emma Matheson is a happily married woman—so happy that she's organised a surprise party for her husband on the night of their wedding anniversary.

When Nathan doesn't turn up to the party, Emma knows something...Read more

Big Little Lies

'I guess it started with the mothers.'

'It was all just a terrible misunderstanding.'

'I'll tell you exactly why it happened.'

Pirriwee Public’s annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. Was it...Read more

The Breakdown

As a woman driving alone on a country road at night, Cass isn’t that inclined to get out of her car when she passes what appears to be a motorist with engine trouble.  It’s pouring buckets, and Cass’s cottage is not far away. Finding out the next day that a woman was murdered is a huge...Read more

Broken

ntroduces Mattie Hampton, a woman who has just left her husband but is still desperately trying to find ways to mend her broken marriage. While Jake, Mattie’s husband, gravitates between understanding and frustration, and their two small children try to make sense of the separation, Mattie...Read more

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The Child Next Door

Home alone, keeping an ear out for her baby daughter who is sleeping on the floor above, Kirstie Rawlings is jolted out of her doze at the sound of a cry.  The baby monitor also relays the sound of someone speaking upstairs which results in Kirstie launching into action.  Racing upstairs,...Read more

The Couple Next Door

On the other side of a wall from where a modest dinner party is being held, a sleeping baby is taken from her bed. 

Even sleep deprived new parents should be able to spend a few hours away, with the baby monitor at hand, the doors locked tight – right? Is it an opportunity baby...Read more

Dead in the Water

When Brigitte and her family moved from the city, they were supposed to be happier. And safer. But soon her crime-writer ex-boyfriend turns up in town to promote his new novel, in which a woman is found dead — murdered — in a country lake. Hours later, Brigitte watches the police pull a...Read more

Forgotten

In a single day, a simple mistake will have life-altering consequences for everyone involved.

A moment of distraction, an unlocked car and a missing baby. How on earth could this happen?

All Malia needed was a single litre of milk and now she's surrounded by police...Read more

Fractured

A compelling, emotional debut from a brilliant Australian author that brings to life a new mother’s worst fears.

Tony is worried. His wife, Anna, isn't coping with their newborn. Anna had wanted a child so badly and, when Jack was born, they were both so happy. They’d come home...Read more

The Girl Before

The title alone tells us that someone has died. We know that the girl who came before is going to exert an influence on the present-day protagonist; someone’s footsteps are going to be walked in once again.   So how did the girl before come to her end?

Present day Jane is...Read more

The Guilty Wife

WIFE. MISTRESS. MURDERER.

If you were being framed for murder, how far would you go to clear your name?

The debut psychological thriller that reads as Apple Tree Yardmeets Behind Closed Doors, by way of Double Jeopardy.

I'm not...Read more

Hush Little Baby

Married to a man who has been through it all before, Sally isn't always sure that she is doing this parenting thing right and if she's wrong... well someone will be sure to correct her.  Living with her extrovert husband and his daughter from his first marriage, Sally truly wants to enjoy...Read more

Let Me Lie

The police say it was suicide.
Anna says it was murder.
They're both wrong.

One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come...Read more

The Lone Child

Neve Ayres has always been so careful. Since her mother’s death when Neve was seven, she’s learned to look after herself and to keep her cards close. But now her deliberately constructed world has collapsed: her partner’s left her when she was eight months pregnant. And so, alone with her...Read more

The Lost Swimmer

Rebecca Wilding, an archaeology professor, traces the past for a living.

But suddenly, truth and certainty is turning against her. Rebecca is accused of serious fraud, and worse, she suspects – she knows – that her husband, Stephen, is having an affair.

Desperate...Read more

The Mistake

We all have secrets . . .

Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she adopts out the baby illegally – and tells nobody.

Twenty-five...Read more

The Mother-in-Law

Someone once told me that you have two families in your life - the one you are born into and the one you choose. Yes, you may get to choose your partner, but you don't choose your mother-in-law. The cackling mercenaries of fate determine it all.

From the moment Lucy...Read more

My Husband's Lies

Jen, the much-loved hub of the group, can hardly believe that she now is the mother of three daughters, working a meh career, married to Ian who turns into a total grump when his team doesn’t win.  Handsome Dan is on the uncertain precipice of new fatherhood whilst his girlfriend Geri waits...Read more

A Nearly Normal Family

Every murder case starts with a suspect.
What if the suspect is your daughter? 
Would you believe her, or the evidence against her?

The Father
Believes his daughter has been framed...Read more

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The Neighbours

You’re almost certain your daughter didn’t kill the neighbour. But what if she did?

Richard Wellington is one of the country’s most recognised doctors. A morning TV regular, surgeon to the elite, and scandal-proof despite a malpractice case that should have...Read more

Only Daughter

Home can be the most dangerous place of all...

In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman’s dark past becomes another’s deadly future.

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared.

She’d been enjoying her...Read more

Our House

Bram and Fiona have two terrific kids, and the most gorgeous of London homes.  So pretty from the outside that people stop to take the occasional photo.  So warm and welcoming on the inside that the couple dream of their children bringing up their own families within the same walls. ...Read more

Out of Breath

A compulsive, nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller that takes its readers deep into the heart of a seemingly idyllic intentional community - that proves to be anything but...For readers of Anna Downes' "The Safe Place" and Sarah Bailey's "The Housemate".

Jo Ainsley has been...Read more

The Perfect Couple

There are secrets in every marriage . . . and some are more dangerous than others.

Sarah and Marco Moretti are the perfect couple. Together they have travelled the globe building high-profile careers as archaeologists. Now, at a dig in Florence, they are on the brink of the...Read more

The Secrets in Silence

Tara has lost her voice. She knows there was pain and fear but she cannot remember anything else. Now she can only answer the questions with silence.

Minnie has buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation, keeping her secrets safe and her broken heart...Read more

Still Waters

In the suburbs, a young mother is looking after her two children.  She has been a successful career woman in control of her life, sexually aware and used to attracting any man's undivided attention ... if she wanted to.

But now her control is slipping away.  Motherhood is...Read more