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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
These new crime reads will have you on the edge of your seat.
Elly Conway
A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains…
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Armando Lucas Correa
Bestselling author Armando Lucas Correa strikes out in a bold new direction with a psychological thriller about a young woman afflicted with 'motion blindness', who becomes convinced that her next-door…
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Candice Fox, James Patterson
In this thrilling follow-up to the international bestseller The Inn, past mistakes come back to haunt the friends and residents of The Inn by the Sea.
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Abby Corson
He’ll do anything to improve your stay. Except keep your secrets.
Jordan Harper
L.A. Confidential for the 21st Century: a gripping, must-read thriller about Hollywood's corrupt factory of dreams and the woman determined to burn it down.
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Claire McNeel
In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval.
Jessica Bull
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth... A Jane Austen-inspired murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett
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Kate Brody
A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession by a striking new talent
Lizzie Pook
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is a mysterious, transporting tale about the unbreakable bond of sisterhood, from the author of the critically acclaimed Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter.
Fiona McIntosh
The heart-stopping new crime thriller in the Detective Jack Hawksworth series by blockbuster author Fiona McIntosh.
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Freida McFadden
From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes another twisty psychological thriller... She'll learn that some secrets are deadly. It's a lesson she'll never forget.
James Patterson
A compulsive and entertaining contemporary mystery featuring a team of unique private investigators - perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Knives Out.
Jack Beaumont
Former DGSE spy Jack Beaumont's Dark Arena is another chillingly plausible thriller delivering all the taut plotting, superb action and authentic spycraft that made The Frenchman a critically acclaimed bestseller.
Hannah Richell
Five old friends reunite for an idyllic glamping holiday on the rugged Cornwall coast, but tensions rise when a storm leaves them stranded and someone goes missing.
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Elizabeth Coleman
A charming and cheeky murder mystery, perfect for fans of Phryne Fisher, The Thursday Murder Club and The Tea Ladies
Jo Dixon
From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a vividly portrayed story that reveals the darkness of greed and desire where people will stop at nothing…
Rebecca Heath
The new exciting thriller by Rebecca Heath, author of The Summer Party. A dark and twisty domestic thriller set in a seemingly idyllic suburban neighbourhood, where family secrets are…
Denise Mina
Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose hellfire and damnation sermons pushed the city of Florence to its breaking point. In Three Fires, Denise Mina brings a modern take…
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Lauren Nossett
A tale of ambition, lies, obsession and murder.
Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (trans.)
From Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino, who has sold over a million copies in Japan, The Final Curtain is the fourth and final instalment in the Detective Kaga series
Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (trans.)
Good father or good assassin? Can he be both?: From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train.
Erina Reddan
What lies behind the walls of The Sanctuary, a secretive and conservative religious community?
It’s been a tough year for Charli Trenthenan: her mother died in a tragic car accident…
Hedley Thomas
If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas takes you behind the scenes with a blow-by-blow account of one…
Nita Prose
A new mess. A new mystery. Molly the maid returns . . .
Adrian Hyland
The new Jesse Redpath crime thriller from the bestselling author of Canticle Creek.
Lindsay Hunter
An unputdownable, unmissable, vicious blade of a novel that peels back the fragile veneer of two suburban families and the deadly secrets roiling between them.
Paul E. Hardisty
A cataclysmic, clarion-call, near-future climate-change thriller from one of the world’s leading environmental scientists…
Patricia Cornwell
In this thrilling new instalment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted…
Louise Penny
The brilliant new Chief Inspector Gamache novel, from multi-million-copy international bestseller and award-winning author Louise Penny. Soon to be a major TV series.
Michael Connelly
From #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband.
Ava Barry
In this heart-pounding tale of deception, a young P.I. must unravel the secrets behind the murder of a Los Angeles heiress's parents.
Dann McDorman
West Heart Kill: An outrageously original murder mystery
Dan Box
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory
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Jake Adelstein
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before.
John Silvester
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of…
James Phelps
Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison.
Benjamin Stevenson
Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.
Val McDermid
The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.
John Grisham
What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert and Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange…
Jo Nesbo
From the internationally best-selling author comes a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel for fans of Stranger Things and IT
Nina Simon
A fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town
Chris Hadfield
From the author of the international bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders comes the supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector known only as 'Grief'.
Maria Lewis
A fast paced, thrilling murder mystery novel, paying homage to slasher films of the 90's, The Graveyard Shift is the perfect Halloween read for fans of Riley Sager and Grady…
Richard Armitage
A spectacular destination thriller with heart, Richard Armitage's debut is 'atmospheric, icily tense ' - The Telegraph
Chris Hammer
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt.
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Peter James
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace books, now a major ITV series.
James Ellroy
Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death.
Sophie Hannah
The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice - puts his little…