Davitt Awards for Crime Writing 2010 Contenders - Adult Fiction
Pestle & Mortar
$24.95 – Paperback book / Zeus Publications
Annie, an elderly widowed woman, has all her night fears realised when she’s abducted by Adam, a psychotic stalker.
The mind games he plays and his lust for perverted thrills has her living a nightmare, fearing for her... Buy or find out more →
Black Ice
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
It can happen to any family.
Detective Sergeant Jill Jackson is working undercover in Sydney's murky drug world. Living in a run down flat and making unlikely friends Jill sees first hand what devastation the illegal dru... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Child
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
The past is always close behind.
On 11 November 1982, police were called to a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. In the lounge room of an otherwise ordinary brick veneer home, they found a five-year-old boy lying ... Buy or find out more →
Red Queen
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
After two months of isolation in the Australian bush, two brothers discover a new threat – a woman alone.
Shannon and Rohan Scott have retreated to their family’s cabin in the Australian wilderness to escape a virus-ra... Buy or find out more →
Riding High
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
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The Devil's Staircase
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Birlinn Ltd
Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She’s a sheltered girl – gentle and kind – who has spent her teenage years in a fearful bubble. She’s never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within ... Buy or find out more →
The Killing Hands
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
FBI profiler Sophie Anderson is an expert at dealing with gruesome murder cases and psychotic serial killers. Her latest case, however, is like nothing she's ever seen before - the victim has had his throat ripped out, a... Buy or find out more →
Blood Born
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
For pathologist and forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton, the death of a gang rape victim hours before she is due to give evidence at trial is more than only a tragedy. The psychotic Harbourn brothers, the girl's accused ... Buy or find out more →
Pearl In A Cage
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman – foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant – is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek.
The town midwife, Ger... Buy or find out more →
Move To Strike
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Perfect home, perfect family, perfect murder...
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 wif... Buy or find out more →
The Labyrinth Of Drowning
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life has been a gift and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daugh... Buy or find out more →
Too Many Murders
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Once again bestselling author Colleen McCullough proves she is a master of suspense Buy or find out more →
- The world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War persists. On a beautiful spring day in Holloman, Connecticut, twelv...
Dark Country
$22.99 – Paperback book / Headline
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Sharp Shooter
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Introducing Tara Sharp, a fun, feisty, kick-arse crime fighter for fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum.
Tara Sharp should be just another unemployable, twenty-something, ex-private schoolgirl . . . but she has the g... Buy or find out more →
Steel River
$19.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
For Jayne Buchanan, a train ride to the city heralds the beginning of a trip into a sinister and callous world of violence, exploitation and murder. She finds herself stalked, kidnapped and running hard for her life; har... Buy or find out more →
A Beautiful Death
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Fiona McIntosh lives in Adelaide with her husband and two sons. HarperCollins published her first crime novel, Bye Bye Baby, in 2007. A man walking his dog by the River Lea in London makes a grisly discovery and soon DCI... Buy or find out more →
Red Dust
$23.99 – Paperback book / Arena
After the tragic death of her husband in a light-plane accident, Gemma Sinclair is left with the daunting task of managing the vast outback station he's bequeathed her. But she remains haunted by Adam's dying words, not ... Buy or find out more →
The Gene Thieves
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Brilliant‚ lonely genetic scientist Piggy Brown is desperate for a child‚ but he′s in a tricky legal situation. Dancer is a lawyer with his own reasons for wanting to grant Piggy′s dearest wish -- and he can set up Conju... Buy or find out more →
Forbidden Fruit
$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Corinna Chapman returns in her fifth adventure, witty and wise as ever - running rings around the villains, courageous on behalf of the helpless, and committed to the pursuit of baking excellence.
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Siren
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
ENTER A WORLD OF BEAUTY AND DANGER, OF FRENCH CABARET AND TERRIBLE REVENGE
Mak Vanderwall - beautiful, street-wise daughter of a cop, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI - is hired by a widowed mother to track do... Buy or find out more →
Gladiatrix: Kannon Dupree Time Stalker Book One
$20.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
When time travel was invented, everyone thought it would solve their problems.
But for 22-year-old Kannon, it′s about to turn her life upside down.
Left for dead in the Blue Mountains when she was just a baby, Kannon h... Buy or find out more →