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  • The Secret Poisoner

    A Century of Murder

    by Linda Stratmann ...
    “This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK).Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    by John Berendt ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD

  • Hunter

    A gripping, addictive thriller from Ross Greenwood, author of The Santa Killer, for 2023

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    There’s a killer on the streets, and no one is safe…First there was the drowned man, but maybe his death was an accident?Then there were the decapitated bodies, the burnt girl, the women pursued in the dark. Finally the police have to admit there’s a serial killer on the loose and he seems set on revenge. His name is Abel and his crimes are escalating every day.Dan Flood, Olivia Jones and their ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where The Truth Lies

    A completely gripping crime thriller

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 1 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    The case was closed. Until people started dying…DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then the murders began, in an uncanny echo of his first case.As the death count grows, old records, and bodies, go missing. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where The Dead Fall

    A completely gripping crime thriller

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 2 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    One chance encounter, one murder, will change everything.DI Thomas Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong. Caught in a gruesome motorway incident, one question remains: why did nobody else see what happened?Ridpath’s investigations soon pulls the police force itself into question, and hints at something even more sinister.With Manchester on the brink ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Predator

    The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

    by Maureen Callahan ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Amazon “Best Book of 2019”A Washington Post “10 Books To Read in July”A Los Angeles Times “Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading”A USA Today “20 of the Season’s Hottest New Books”A New York Post “25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now”**A Bustle “The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now”<strong... ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • DS Walker Book 3

    by Patricia Wolf ...
    Series Book 3 - A DS Walker Thriller
    The third instalment in the international #1 bestselling DS Walker series.Praise for the series:'Tense, gripping and atmospheric' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End'Nail-biting thriller!... From the beginning I was hooked! The outback setting provides the perfect backdrop... A thrilling ride that had me holding my breath through its finale. Highly recommended' Reader review, 5 stars ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

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  • Larrimah

    A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other

    by Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson ...
    A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together.Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to write a love letter to a town that looks like this, especially when it's someone else's town. A town ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Body Beneath the Willows

    by Nick Louth ...
    Series Book 9 - DCI Craig Gillard Crime Thrillers
    It’s not only secrets that are buried by the water… A gripping crime thriller from bestseller master Nick LouthOn the tree-lined banks of Surrey’s River Wey, a decaying corpse is dug up by workmen in the middle of an Anglo-Saxon burial site. His modern dental fillings show that this is no Dark Age corpse...DCI Craig Gillard is called in, but the body’s condition makes identification difficult. One ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the Shadows Hide

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 9 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    To love and to cherish, till death did them part...'A brilliant thriller' The SunTwo desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse. After six months of work, the police have nothing and Ridpath is finally called in to investigate. Dubbed the Romeo and Juliet murders by the press, so many questions remain unanswered.Who are they? Why were ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Innocent Die

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 4 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted.A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for DI Ridpath something doesn’t add up.As the evidence starts to unravel, and with few leads, the pressure is on to find answers before the Inquest is closed. Caught between the police, the coroner and a system that ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Fall Down

    by Matthew Condon ...
    Continuing on from the bestselling true crime stories Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers, All Fall Down follows Terry Lewis as he becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police and government goes on. As the Queensland police become more connected with their corrupt colleagues in Sydney, the era of heavy drugs and crime also begins. Tony Murphy and ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Silence Calls

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 3 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Play with fire, and you’re going to get burned. The unputdownable new Ridpath crime thrillerIn Manchester, a block of flats is burning. The only victim is a middle-aged man, sat watching TV. Are the fire and the man's death an accident or is something more frightening at work?Meanwhile, DI Ridpath is back with his wife and enjoying work at the Coroner's Office, his myeloma still in remission. But ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joe Cinque's Consolation

    by Helen Garner ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Bali Undercover

    by Malcolm Scott ...
    In this follow-up to his chart-topping "Bali Raw", Malcolm Scott strips off the island’s sunny veneer to reveal its dark and dirty underbelly, taking the reader where no tourist guide ever will. Take a walk through the night streets of Kuta Beach to meet its wild and willing hookers, its dolled-up trannies and desperate college girls, and discover first hand all the sexy and sleazy secrets that ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • The Plea

    His client is innocent. His wife is guilty.

    by Steve Cavanagh ...
    Series series Eddie Flynn Series
    Your client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.Who would you fight for?*'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin*When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Vanished

    True stories from families of Australian missing persons

    by Nicole Morris ...
    They just vanished … Disappeared. Gone. Lost. No answers. Still missing.Imagine the pain, confusion and emotional roller-coaster that families experience when a loved one goes missing. What would you do? How would your family cope?This is a heart- wrenching collection of true stories told through the eyes of family members who have experienced the trauma of a missing loved one. It follows their ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Secrets We Buried

    A BRAND NEW absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist for 2023

    by Becca Day ...
    'Oh. My. Gosh. I was NOT expecting that!!! I binged this book in a day and a half' Reader review, 5 stars'THIS BOOK!!!! So many twists and turns and an ending that I just did not see coming!' Reader review, 5 stars'Uhm woah?? This was nuts! I could not put this book down' Reader review, 5 starsThe perfect neighbourhood. The perfect friends. The perfect murder.When Frankie move... ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD

  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou ...
    **Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018"You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. No matter how bad you think the Theranos story was, you'll learn that the reality was actually far worse." Bethany McLean, bestselling coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here**In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife

    by Rebecca Hazel ...
    Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all – a loving family and a beautiful home in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. But in the summer of 1982 his wife Lynette disappeared and not long afterwards Dawson married a much younger woman a former student.Less than a decade later this young woman escaped the marriage and went to the police to record her suspicions that Dawson ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • I Let Him Go: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger

    The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger - updated for the 30th anniversary, in memory of James

    by Denise Fergus ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, with an updated chapter from Denise.'I was crying so much I couldn't breathe. The thought of leaving the shopping centre without him was crushing. I knew that walking away from the place where he had gone missing, without any idea where he now was, meant that things were really bad. James had been right by my side and then he was gone forever.'On 12th February 1993, ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • Unanswered Cries

    by Thomas French ...
    The night she was attacked in her Florida home, Karen Gregory let out a scream so piercing that it carried for several blocks. More than a dozen neighbors heard her, but none called the police. By the time her body was discovered, thirty one hours later, the trail was already cold. The detective assigned to solve the murder ran down one blind alley after another, eliminating one suspect after ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pirates and their Survivors

    The story of Somali piracy one hijack at a time

    by Sarah Craze ...
    Piracy is a human drama. Yet never has the outbreak of piracy off the coast of Somalia in 2008 been constructed through the lens of social history. Using the testimony of people involved: pirates, crew, shipowners, government representatives, federal and naval authorities, and observers, this book shows how a Somali pirate attack threw together everyday people, governments and corporations into an ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betrayed

    The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history

    by Sandi Logan ...
    WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023A relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies'In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD