Australian crime fiction & true crime 2018

This I Would Kill For

Anne Buist

Natalie is reluctantly embroiled in a custody dispute where a mother’s claims of child sexual abuse are sustained–but who is the abuser?

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Operation Playboy

Kathryn Bonella

An exhilarating true-crime thriller revealing the exploits of the world’s most audacious drug mules and dealers.

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A Scandal in Bohemia

Gideon Haigh

An unsolved murder takes one of Australia’s foremost writers of non-fiction into the 1930s Bohemian demi-monde, exploring the fate of a talented young woman trying to make her way in…

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Lillian Armfield

Leigh Straw

The fascinating and unknown story of Australia’s first female detective - and a gripping and colourful account of Sydney crime in the 1920s to 1940s

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Live and Let Fry: A Rusty Bore Mystery

Sue Williams

Feisty, forty-something and fearless, Cass Tuplin isn’t exactly the Sherlock Holmes type. Yet as Rusty Bore’s peer-appointed private investigator she just can’t seem to avoid ending up in hot water.

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Retribution

Richard Anderson

A rural crime-novel about finding out how to survive and surviving what you find.

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The Other Wife

Michael Robotham

A secret wife. A secret life. A killer who knows. The new bestseller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until its shocking climax, by multi-million-copy selling…

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The Wolf Hour

Sarah Myles

A gripping thriller set in Africa about a young aid worker in danger and the lengths to which her family will go to save her. Edge-of-your-seat suspense combines with a…

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Dead Heat

Peter Cotton

Detective Darren Glass is back, and the stakes are higher than ever.

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The Cry

Helen FitzGerald,Helen FitzGerald

Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that…

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A Necessary Murder: A Heloise Chancey Mystery

M.J. Tjia

For lovers of flamboyant heroines, mouthy servants and bloody murders, from a Stella Prize shortlisted author.

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Greenlight

Benjamin Stevenson

A nail-biting thriller that turns popular true-crime such as Serial and Making A Murderer on its head, Greenlight will shock with twists and turns you’ll never see coming.

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Loose Units

Paul F. Verhoeven

Part father-son story, part true crime, Loose Units is a race through the underbelly of policing as ex-cop John Verhoeven tells all to his son Paul about the crimes, the…

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Lonely Girl

Lynne Vincent McCarthy

An isolated young woman accidentally runs down and badly hurts a suspected killer. Terrified for her life, she locks him in her basement. And then she decides to keep him…

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