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Ashley Kalagian Blunt
A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click…
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Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship - and shows that words can be the most treacherous weapons of…
Kerry Greenwood
Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia’s favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fisher, returns in a case that will test her courage and judgement to the full.
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Dervla McTiernan
Being brilliant has never been this dangerous…
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Oriana Ramunno, Katherine Gregor (trans.)
A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943.
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Richard Osman
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club –
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R.W.R. McDonald
A schoolgirl and her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot…
Michael Bennett
Top of the Lake meets Val McDermid by way of Jane Harper in this brilliantly gripping debut by award-winning New Zealand screenwriter and director, Michael Bennett.
Gabino Iglesias
This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence.
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Holly Throsby
A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley.
Jean Hanff Korelitz,Jean Hanff Korelitz
The autumn’s most thrilling page-turner from the author of The Undoing, the major series on HBO.
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Sarah Bailey
The Dark Lake is a brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last.
Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (trans.)
A propulsive new thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.
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Emma Viskic
An addictive new thriller from multi-award-winning author Emma Viskic.
Peter Temple
Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a…
Nina D. Campbell
An unputdownable feminist revenge thriller from a bold new voice in the genre.
Christian White
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?
Garry Disher
The bookseller favourite, must-read rural crime novel of 2019 now in a new format
Profoundly deaf since early childhood, Caleb has always lived on the outside - watching and picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough or a kiss
Mark Brandi
In the long, hot summer of 1989, Ben and Fab are best friends. Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams…
Stuart Turton
The extraordinary new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award.
Robert Goddard
A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London. Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a…
Erina Reddan
From a Walkley Award-winning journalist comes a gripping, literary crime novel about male power and the secrets that can haunt a family.
Inga Vesper
A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.
Michael Robotham
The bestselling psychological thriller that will break your heart into tiny pieces.
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Vigdis Hjorth
A provocative bestseller from one of Norway’s most highly-regarded novelists.
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Laura Lippman
Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year’s most dangerous leading lady…
Kate Atkinson
To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - lost on the left, found on the right - and the two never…
Leila Slimani
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
Hannelore Cayre
With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France, and an…
Chris Hammer
A powerful and compelling debut Australian crime novel that will suit fans of Peter May, Jane Harper, and Dennis Lehane.
J.P. Pomare
An incredible literary thriller for readers of bestsellers such as Gone Girl, Before I Go To Sleep and Girl on the Train from an exciting new Australian voice.
A. J. Finn
What did she see?
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (trans.)
The internationally bestselling trilogy - reissued to tie in with the long-awaited continuation of one of the major publishing phenomenons of modern times
Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror - the most inventive story you’ll read this year.
Oyinkan Braithwaite
As smart and murderous, My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet -…
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Paula Hawkins
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel…
Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to politics… until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary and treasonous conspiracy.
Gillian Flynn
Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn’t do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of Sharp Objects.
Philip Kerr
Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930’s Berlin. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that…
Raymond Chandler
The definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe.
Melina Marchetta
With its cast of unforgettable characters, social insight and wry wit, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil is an irresistible novel about human identity, lost children and the nature of…
The Ruin is the first in an exciting new crime series featuring DI Cormac Reilly.
Jane Harper
The Dry is the highest selling Australian debut in 2016.
A little girl went missing years ago. That child is you. A dark and gripping debut psychological thriller that won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, previously won by THE…
Tana French
A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable.
Jock Serong
A literary novel about politics and seeking asylum, with the pace and tension of a political thriller. Plus some of the most compelling writing about the sea since Patrick O'Brian.
