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May 2008 Crime Fiction

Blood Sunset
Jarad Henry

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Arena )

When the sun lowers itself into the bay and leaves the sky over St Kilda a dark crimson, it's beautiful and threatening at the same time. But the tourists don't see it that way. They only see the pretty colours and the c... More »

A Deadly Business
Lenny Bartulin

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Jack Susko is trying for a quiet life in his second-hand bookshop in downtown Sydney. It’s more tin mine than gold mine, yet it’s his and that’s something. But when a wealthy businessman hires Jack to locate some books f... More »


Black Out
Lisa Unger

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )

No extra details available for this item. Black Out is the exciting new thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth. It is the story of a young woman who escapes her dangerous ... More »

Imprimatur
Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti

$39.95$34.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )

11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes ... More »


Death In Breslau
Marek Krajewski

$29.95$24.95 (Paperback book / Maclehose Press )

Breslau 1933: the mutilated body of a young woman, an aristocrat, is found dead on a train. Scorpions writhe in her slashed stomach, a horrifying image that becomes crucial to the investigation. Inspector Eberhard Mock i... More »

Ritual
Mo Hayder

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand.The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is th... More »


The Case Of The Imaginary Detective
Karen Joy Fowler

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

Everyone turns out to be a writer', Addison said. 'Why? Why must everyone write? Why can't they just read?'



Rima Lanisell is a young woman at a loose end, following the death of her father. Rima has a history of losing ... More »

Orpheus Rising
Colin Bateman

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Headline )

Michael Ryan was the author of a runaway bestseller, Space Coast, but its publication coincided with his wife's murder in a bank raid. Now he's back to face the ghosts of his past.Michael met Claire when she was dragging... More »


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