Australian crime fiction & true crime from 2021
The Torrent
A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two seemingly unconnected cases that will push a detective to the brink. An atmospheric, compelling new voice in Australian crime...
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The Gallerist
Fake or fortune? The Gallerist is a feel-good cosy crime novel that will take you behind the scenes of the art world.
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Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia's answer to Jack Reacher
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The Cane
Nail-biting, atmospheric, and unputdownable, the brilliant new thriller for fans of Wimmera and The Dry.
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The Way It Is Now
A stunning new standalone crime novel from one of Australia's most revered writers
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Crocodile Tears
The fifth and final instalment in the award-winning Cato Kwong series, Crocodile Tears sees Cato's life on the line and his only hope is someone from his past. But can he trust him?
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The River Mouth
A stunning debut that will keep you guessing till the last chapter
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Canticle Creek
Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same.
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The Russian Wife
Fraud, betrayal and murder, set in the high-stakes world of fine art. 'Barry Maitland is one of Australia's finest crime writers.' - Sunday Tasmanian
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The Hush
Everything can change in a heartbeat ... The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know Me
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The Shadow House
A must-read addictive thriller from international bestselling writer Anna Downes
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Larrimah
A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together.
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The Stoning
A small outback town wakes to a savage murder.
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Wild Place
In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic Australian suburb of Camp Hill. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance
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Treasure and Dirt
An unputdownable standalone thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands.
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Tank Water
A coming-of-age story and crime thriller with a large and gentle heart.
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I Shot the Devil
A dark, twisty thriller of small town buried secrets.
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Sweet Jimmy
Bryan Brown has been telling stories with his distinctive Australian voice on TV and in film for a long time, but this time he's writing crime in his first book.
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The Curlew’s Eye
A psychological thriller and contemporary gothic novel set around an isolated and abandoned ruined homestead in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
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Cutters End
A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterious death on New Year's Eve 1989 leads to a shocking murder investigation 32 years later . . .
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The Man Who Died Twice
The second novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club Series.
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The Final Cut
Can she be saved ... from herself?
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Double Deal
As the ice melts in the Arctic, climate change spurs a new Cold War, and the world's superpowers race to snatch control of the region's vast resources
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The Long Game
A tightly-wound debut crime novel set in Melbourne and surrounds, for fans of Sarah Bailey, Garry Disher and J. M. Green
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The Attack
A boot camp for troubled young men, a hidden identity and murderous pursuit on a remote island: beloved author Catherine Jinks is back with another heart-pounding Australian thriller.
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The Orchard Murders
A novel about revenge, obsession, and the dangerous gullibility of religious fanatics.
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Private Prosecution
A pacy, darkly comic whodunnit with a twist
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Just Murdered: Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Introducing the fabulous Ms Peregrine Fisher, niece of the famous Phryne Fisher, as seen on 7plus and Acorn tv
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A Voice in the Night
A Voice in the Night is an addictive thriller of twists and turns, a gripping and emotionally resonant debut from a striking new voice.
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The Tribute
Meticulously researched, hugely ambitious and superbly crafted, The Tribute is the most outstanding thriller of 2021.
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Mirror Man
The highly anticipated new crime thriller in the DCI Jack Hawksworth series.
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The 22 Murders of Madison May
From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes a mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to...
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The Inheritance
The author of the bestselling The Hunted returns with another unmissable, white-knuckle, gritty urban suspense thriller: think Jack Reacher meets John Wick in a high-octane, high-speed chase on the dark streets of Melbourne.
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CSI Told You Lies
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forensic pathologists, homicide detectives, defence barristers and victims' families in this moving and gripping study of violent crime...
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Still
Still is an evocative, page-turning thriller from a brilliant Australian writer. If you loved The Dry and Scrublands, you will love Still.
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When You Are Mine
For as long as we both shall live? A pulse-racing standalone thriller by the #1 bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, now a major TV series
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The Enemy Within
Like Michael Connelly's Bosch, former war correspondent John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth - and expose a deadly enemy.
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The Girl Remains
A chilling police thriller set in a small coastal town on the Mornington Peninsula, where the discovery of human bones on an isolated beach has reawakened a twenty-year-old cold case...
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The Winter Road: A Killing at Croppa Creek
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller.
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The Others
From the bestselling author of Wimmera and The Rip comes an unforgettable novel that explores the darkness in our world with the light only a child can find.
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Nancy Business
Tippy, Uncle Pike and Devon are back for another camp cozy crime mystery from the award-winning author of The Nancys.
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The Chase
The new novel by New York Times #1 bestselling author Candice Fox is an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Nevada desert.
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The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, which features four brand-new stories.
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Before You Knew My Name
An extraordinary, unputdownable debut novel exploring trauma, connection, and our cultural obsession with dead girls.
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Heiress On Fire
After accidentally blowing up her husband, can Indigo get back on her four-inch heels?
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The Serpent’s Skin
From a Walkley Award-winning journalist comes a gripping, literary crime novel about male power and the secrets that can haunt a family.
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My Best Friend’s Murder
This is The Rumour meets The Holiday, a compulsive thriller with a toxic but layered friendship at its heart that keeps you in the dark until the final few breathless pages . . .
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The Husband Poisoner
Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For readers of compelling history and true crime, from critically acclaimed, award-winning...
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Tell Me Lies
A fast-paced psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Patient.
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The Schoolgirl Strangler
With all the pace of a thriller, Katherine Kovacic recounts this extraordinary, chilling true story - of failed police enquiries, a killer with a Jekyll and Hyde personality, and the families shattered when four innocent lives...
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The Second Son
The breakout blockbuster Australian crime of 2021. Warring families on the streets of Western Sydney, a debt that must be paid in blood, and a love story surviving against the odds.
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Shelter
A spine-tingling psychological thriller where everything is not as it seems, from one of Australia's best writers of suspense.
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Hideout
Timothy Blake, ex-FBI, finds himself at a remote house in rural Texas. The house is occupied by six criminals who believe Blake is their ally. Secretly, he intends to pick them off one by one. But when one of the psychopaths is...
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White Throat
Savvy ex-lawyer Clementine Jones is back in this edge-of-your-seat crime thriller with an environmental twist
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Death in Daylesford
Surrounded by secrets, great and small, the formidable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to vanquish injustice.
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Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award
Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.
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Doom Creek
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of...
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The Survivors
The compelling new novel from Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry.
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Trust
The stunning new novel from the No.1 international bestselling author of Scrublands and 'master of Australian noir' Chris Hammer.
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Shore Leave
It is Fremantle in 1989 and Frank is at home, suffering from an undiagnosed and debilitating illness.
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Over My Dead Body
Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in,...
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The Good Teacher
A good teacher can change lives...
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Electric Blue
The riveting, darkly funny stand-alone sequel to Loose Units.
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