Australian crime fiction & true crime 2019
Darkness for Light
All he trusts is betrayal. After heartbreak and trauma, Caleb Zelic is beginning to rebuild his life. He has a new home, a new business and the chance of a happy love life. But people in power have other ideas.
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Peace
A must-read Australian rural crime novel, written by one of the masters of the genre.
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The Great Divide
A city detective hunts a killer through a fog of lies in small town Tasmania.
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Dead Man Switch
Bestselling author Tara Moss returns to crime fiction with a stunning new series, and a stunning new heroine. Meet PI Billie Walker -- smart and sexy, with a dash of Mae West humour, she's a hard-boiled detective with a...
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True West
A fast-paced and unsettling action thriller inspired by historical fact. The book captures Perth's burgeoning Neo-Nazi movement in the late 1980s.
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The Red Hand
The unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple
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Silver
Martin Scarsden returns in the sequel to the bestselling Scrublands.
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Duplicity
When ruthless political operative Jonathan Wolff is assigned the task of overthrowing corrupt Australian Prime Minister Andrew Gerrard in the federal election campaign, no one is safe from the line of fire.
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The Wife and the Widow
Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
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The Operators
The Operators is a thrilling yarn of wit, man bags, and old-fashioned ingenuity in the face of a changing world from master storyteller Barry Heard.
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Good Girl, Bad Girl
The first in an exciting new series featuring forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, from world-renowned author Michael Robotham.
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The Devil’s Grip
From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District's prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil's...
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The Day the Lies Began
Big Little Lies meets The Party. Kylie Kaden is the freshest, new voice in domestic noir.
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Life Sentence: My last eighteen months
In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years' jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made him one of the most infamous...
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Where the Dead Go
Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town.
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The Pretty Girl Killer
The complete true story of one of the world's most horrifying serial killers, who terrorised both Australia and America
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See You at the Toxteth
For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as 'the godfather of Australian fiction', and Cliff Hardy has been Australia's favourite private investigator since he solved his first case in 1980.
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Lapse
Small town secrets and divisions come bubbling to the surface in Sarah Thornton's gripping debut crime novel.
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Snake Island
Reading like a morality tale Western but in a starkly beautiful Australian setting, Snake Island is a propulsive literary thriller written with great clarity and power.
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State of Fear
Catching the world's most wanted terrorist was supposed to be someone else's job...
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Bowraville
From the creator of the Walkley Award-winning podcast comes the story of a small Australian town, the murders of three children and a desperate fight for justice.
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Shoot Through
Stella Hardy, the wisecracking social worker, is back to tackle crooked private contractors, an exotic cattle scam, and a delicious Mushroom Jalfrezi.
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A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case
On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy.
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Devil’s Lair
For readers of The Dark Lake and The Dry, comes this taut psychological suspense set in a dramatic Tasmanian landscape from bestselling author Sarah Barrie.
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Mandatory Murder
A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town
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The Autumn Murders
The series that began with The Holiday Murders and The Port Fairy Murders now continues with The Autumn Murders ...
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The Nancys
A schoolgirl and her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot...
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From the Shadows
A stunning, atmospheric police procedural set against the grit of Inverness and the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands, this is the first book in the DI Monica Kennedy series. Detective Inspector Monica Kennedy stands by the...
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The Accusation
A powerful exploration of the fragility of trust and the loss of innocence, from the author of The Golden Child and The Mistake.
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Two men claim to have escaped the murderous clutches of a serial killer. But each says he's the victim and the other man is the murderer. It'll take everything small-town police sergeant Chandler Jenkins has to discover the truth...
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River of Salt
Former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel. When...
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The Suicide Bride
From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters.
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Eight Lives
A smart, sophisticated thriller that explores power, class and prejudice, Eight Lives will keep you engrossed until the last page.
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Hunter
Timothy Blake returns, with an insatiable appetite, in the thrillingly addictive sequel to Hangman.
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Hiding to Nothing
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Death on the Derwent
Don't fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail.
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Half Moon Lake
Inspired by a real case, Half Moon Lake is a captivating historical novel set in America's Deep South about a lost boy - and the two mothers who both seek to claim him.
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Comeback
Knockabout Melbourne taxi-driver Jack van Duyn is back in action, taking on crooked property developers while being stalked by a deranged figure from his past.
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Promised Land
Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath. Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely figure of John Pettigrew, a failing London publisher...
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Gone by Midnight
Ex-cop Ted Conkaffey is slowly rebuilding his life in Crimson Lake, and getting to know his three-year-old daughter, Lillian. But when he and his PI partner Amanda take on the case of a boy who seems to have literally disappeared...
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Bye Bye Baby
There is a killer on the loose. Scotland Yard's brightest talent is chosen to head up the high-profile taskforce, a DCI who must confront his own past as the body count rises. There are few leads, and Jack Hawksworth can only fall...
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All the Tears in China (Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 9)
The new book in The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries.
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The Ink Stain (The Monsarrat Series Book 4)
Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top - to the office of the governor - and threaten the colony's fundamental rights to freedom of speech.
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The Night Dragon
The Night Dragon is the fifth volume in Matthew Condon's chronicle of Queensland crime and corruption in the 20th Century.
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Southern Justice
Who really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail.
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Painting in the Shadows (An Alex Clayton Art Mystery)
When a gallery becomes a dangerous place, art dealer Alex Clayton must find the hidden meaning.
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