A gripping novel tracing the life of Aboriginal boxer and journalist Charlie Thomas from highly successful Australian writer Peter Corris.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Charlie Thomas, born in a humpy camp in the 1920s, learns to fight early. He fights in the backblocks of Queensland during the Depression, and in the Middle East and the Pacific in World War Two.Charlie Thomas, decorated veteran, fights on in the cities and the ...

New beginnings always come with old secrets.It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now that she’s free, she’s ready for a fresh start. So, when shegets a job at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart, she’s dead seton making sure no one learns about her awful past.Mabel has spent her life at Sunnyside—first as an evacuee during theBlitz, and now as the home’s oldest resident. She’s held the secrets o...

ONE DAY. ONE TRAGEDY. THREE STORIES. WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?Eighteen-year-old Janie White has the world and a bright future ahead of her. She’s about to leave behind her small seaside town, the only home she’s ever known, to embark on a book publishing career in London and couldn’t be more excited. Even though she’ll miss her dad and friends, she can’t wait to start her life.She’s cycling home after her last early-dawn swim in the bay when the peaceful stillnes...

What's the first rule when staying at your best friend's house for the week? Don't fall for her older brother.I never paid much attention to my best friend’s older brother until he refused to kiss me. After that humiliating day, I promised myself that Liam Turner would regret ever making me feel less than worthy.But then I got stuck spending the week at his house.So to make the best of the situation, I made plans to find my next summer boyfriend and...

From the bestselling author of I Died on a Tuesday comes an explosive new thriller about the ties—and lies—that bind us.Two sisters bound by a secret that could tear them apart . . .Rosy is the responsible one, well-behaved and organized. Amy is the free spirit, always breaking the rules. But despite their differences, they can never be apart.Because only they know what happened that day and one wrong move could de...

In this gripping novel from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer Peter Corris, Cliff Hardy's reluctant status as 'security consultant' to a politician takes him to Washington DC where the threats are real and the rules are different.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Politician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician's 'security consultant' but he...

'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Gareth Greenway wasn't all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. What he wasn't used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him into: neurosurgeons, mental patients, AIDS sufferers, all negotiating a landscape of dreams and delusions. An old friend of Hardy's ends up dead while Hardy chases the shadows, catching some, losing others.The accompanying stories find Hardy on more familiar ground. When organised crime, ...

An unexpected obituary takes Cliff Hardy on a trip down memory lane to a case he's been trying to forget for twenty years: oil, fraud, boxing, racing - and murder.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'One case still haunts HardyLegendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colourful characters, an...

A missing teenager, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. Can Cliff Hardy find out what's really going on?'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Will one man's loss be Hardy's gain?'I'd read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the way you do with news stories.'A missing girl, drugs, yach...

The story of Cliff Hardy's very first case.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Divorce cases are part of a private investigator's bread and butter, and Cliff Hardy has had his share. This case, though, has a lot more than matrimonial squabbles - add in some perjury, fraud and murder to the mix. Crooked cops, lawyers and a call girl complete the collection, all making for a tough, and dangerous, puzzle for Hardy to try to solve while keeping...

How does a simple car accident suddenly become a murder?'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'When Todd Barnes, war veteran and popular drinking mate, leaves Cliff Hardy a tidy sum to find out who killed him, Hardy can hardly refuse - and he needs the money. Todd's widow and some of his cronies are not always cooperative, however, and it's hard to tell friends from enemies, especially when it comes to the mysterious Kevin O'Fearna, known as O...

A heart-stopping psychological thriller about a woman running from the aftermath of a gruesome family tragedy--and also from the truth about her part in it. For fans of Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell.You can run away from your life . . . but you can't hide from murder.Nancy's mother and stepfather have been brutally killed. After a trial that gripped the nation, her stepbrother ha...