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  • The Ink Black Heart

    Cormoran Strike, Book 6

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Book 6 - Strike
    When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.Robin decides that the agency ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Desperation in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 55)

    by J. D. Robb ...
    Book 55 - In Death
    The Sunday Times bestselling series is back with a gripping new thriller that pits homicide detective Eve Dallas against a conspiracy of exploitation and evil...Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, disappeared walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania.Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood.Lt. Eve Dallas ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • No Plan B

    by Lee Child, Andrew Child ...
    Book 27 - Jack Reacher
    The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

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  • Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 56)

    by J. D. Robb ...
    Book 56 - In Death
    The Sunday Times bestselling series is back. Eve Dallas is investigating the murder of a much-loved actor at a glittering party. The spotlight has never been brighter. Or deadlier... ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD $15.99 AUD

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  • The Call

    A nail-biting, unputdownable thriller

    by P.D. Viner ...
    ‘Holy hell, this book was intense…it kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book.’ Reader Review‘Ben, I need you. Help me.’‘PLEASE HELP ME!’‘It was an accident…but there’s so much blood…’In a frantic late-night phone call, Ben learns his wife, Mia, has killed a man. And she needs his help.When Ben arrives at Mia’s ho... ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clive Cussler's Hellburner

    by Mike Maden ...
    Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must track down a criminal dynasty and a nuclear torpedo - before World War III is unleashed . . .THE LATEST RIP-ROARING THRILL-RIDE FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER__________When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crew member in the process, he's determined to get revenge ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Cuckoo's Calling

    Cormoran Strike Book 1

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Book 1 - Strike
    'The Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place' VAL MCDERMID-----Now a major BBC drama: The Strike seriesWhen a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.Strike is a war ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Her Final Hour (Detective Mark Turpin crime thriller series, book 2)

    A rural crime thriller

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Book 2 - Detective Mark Turpin
    What if the perfect friend was hiding a deadly secret?When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning’s training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core.Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter and the perfect fiancée.However as Detective Mark Turpin delves into the girl’s fateful last hours, he discovers a past full of ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Little Brother

    The BRAND NEW unputdownable, page-turning psychological thriller from Diane Saxon for 2022

    by Diane Saxon ...
    Two siblings, both missing for 20 years turn up within one day of each other. One dead. One alive.It was an ordinary school day, the day I lost my little brother.One moment he was on the roundabout and then was gone. Gone. Missing.They all blamed me. I was in charge. Even though I was only ten years old.They sent me away. The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing.I tried to move on.It’s ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fire Killer

    The BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from Ross Greenwood for 2022

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Book 5 - The DI Barton Series
    **'**A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E JamesThe BRAND NEW thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood!When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime.As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Boy (Detective Mark Turpin crime thriller series, book 3)

    A page-turning crime thriller

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Book 3 - Detective Mark Turpin
    Run. Don’t look back.When a young teenager is stabbed to death at a busy fairground, Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of finding the boy’s killer.But this was no random murder.Mark knows the victim, and the man who ordered his death.As he sifts through the young victim’s final days, he uncovers a powerful crime syndicate that will do anything to protect its interests.Then t... ... Read more

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  • A Silent Truth

    A Detective Mark Turpin murder mystery

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Book 4 - Detective Mark Turpin
    When the body of a young woman is found by the side of a quiet country road, police first suspect a hit and run.Then a darker side to the victim is uncovered – a dangerous addiction that led to her violent death.With little sympathy from a local population, Detective Mark Turpin faces a daunting task to track down her killer.When a second victim dies after a ferocious attack, Mark realises someone ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • None the Wiser (Detective Mark Turpin crime thriller series, book 1)

    A Detective Mark Turpin murder mystery

    by Rachel Amphlett ...
    Book 1 - Detective Mark Turpin
    What if some secrets were never meant to stay buried?When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and leaves no trace behind.After a second priest is killed, his broken body ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six Graves

    An absolutely heart-pounding and addictive crime thriller

    by Angela Marsons ...
    Book 16 - Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller Series
    It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl’s mother looked down at her sleeping child and pulled the trigger?   When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • The Offside Coroner

    by Paul Austin Ardoin ...
    Book 8 - Fenway Stevenson Mysteries
    A fancy dinner date with her boyfriend turns into County Coroner Fenway Stevenson’s worst nightmare. Sucked into investigating a world-famous soccer star accused of infidelity, Fenway finds herself with a major conflict of interest when the head coach of the team is found with his head bashed in. Soon, the whole team is engulfed in a sex scandal. Fenway is kicked off the case while still trying to ... Read more

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  • Better Off Dead

    (Jack Reacher 26)

    by Lee Child, Andrew Child ...
    Book 26 - Jack Reacher
    Reacher never backs down from a problem.And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems.Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Investigator

    by John Sandford ...
    Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford.By twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action than most law enforcement professionals. Working a desk job for US Senator Christopher Colles, she’s bored and ready to quit. But when her skills catch Colles’ attention, ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

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  • The Katharina Code

    You loved Wallander, now meet Wisting.

    by Jørn Lier Horst ...
    Translated by Anne Bruce ...
    Book 1 - Wisting
    THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLERYou loved Wallander, now meet Wisting . . .'Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas' NEW YORK TIMES___________Katharina went missing twenty-four years ago.Each year on the anniversary of her disappearance Chief Inspector William Wisting visits her husband, th... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Company of Strangers

    by Robert Wilson ...
    Stunning European-based thriller from an acclaimed young British author: ‘A class act’ – Sunday Times; ‘First in a field of one’ – Literary ReviewLisbon 1944. In the torrid summer heat, as the streets of the capital seethe with spies and informers, the endgame of the Intelligence war is being silently fought.Andrea Aspinall, mathematician and spy, enters this sophisticated world through a wealthy ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dream Town

    by David Baldacci ...
    Book 3 - Aloysius Archer
    It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her.A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Die Trying

    (Jack Reacher 2)

    by Lee Child ...
    Book 2 - Jack Reacher
    'Cunning, explosive . . . A thumping good read.' Time OutJack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere.A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm.And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach.Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • The Carmarthen Murders

    The start of a dark, edge-of-your-seat crime mystery series from John Nicholl for 2022

    by John Nicholl ...
    Book 1 - Carmarthen Crime
    One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel’s inquiries lead him to the graves of five young women - each of whom looks just like Emma.With a serial killer on the loose and his latest victim ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Troubled Blood

    Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Book 5 - Strike
    Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian'Magnificent' Sunday Times'Finely honed, superbly constructed' Daily Mail'Terrific' Daily ExpressPrivate Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help findin... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • Alone in the Woods

    A completely gripping crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat

    by Charly Cox ...
    Book 3 - Detective Alyssa Wyatt
    ‘Make sure you have nothing else to do when starting this book. You will NOT be able to put it down!!' Reader ReviewThe parents are dead. The girls are hiding. The killer is still inside the house.Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone call from their teenage daughter Addis, and her best friend Emerson, ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus