When Roz Chen' s wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh' s death was an accident after all. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard is hoping for a fresh start with a job at a salmon farm. But as allegations of old war crimes surface and Sam is ' promoted' as a special operative against anti-salmon farm activists, he and Roz form an unlikely alliance. Forced to retreat into the unforgiving Tasmanian wilderness, Roz and Sa...

The fifth and thrilling instalment in Alan Carter's Cate Kwong crime series. When Detective Cato Kwong is called to investigate the death of a retiree found murdered in his suburban Australian home, the details are gruesome – the body has been hacked to pieces. Following the trail of clues, the case will take Cato to Timor-Leste to uncover the truth behind this violent crime with some unexpected twists. Except this time, he's not alone. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Ror...

Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of the South Island. As tensions simmer in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working on a cold-case murder and investigating a scandal-plagued religious sect. When local and internat...

The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand' s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer. When a body is discovered suspended in a glacier, detectives Nick Chester and Latifa Rapata are sent to investigate. More victims surface, as does a web of corruption stretching from the international aid industry to the blood-steeped fields of a civil war.

When a series of murders occur, all of the victims homeless, Detective Cato Kwong's happily ever after takes a sour turn. Leaving his new wife and their baby girl at home, Cato cracks on with the case, but he is not the only one engaging with the killer. A journalist thinks it's okay to play cat and mouse with them online. Quite soon, it becomes apparent that these murders are personal – and not only that, but each death is bringing the killer closer to Cato, one body at a time.

Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Jon Doust, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner, and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching crime fiction from some of Australia's finest writers.

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case—the unsolved mystery of a missing 15-year-old girl. But it's midsummer in the city of millionaires and it's not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave and a body, with its throat cut, turns up in the local nightclub. As a series of blunders by Cato's colleague brings the squad under intense scrutiny, Cato's own sympathy for a suspect threatens to derail his case and his care...

The world is in economic meltdown, but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime—or even a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. When Kwong's investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturb...

When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful. The killer is elusive and brutal, and the investigation takes Cato to Shanghai. In a world of spoiled rich kids and cyber dragons, Cato is about to discover a whole lot more about the Chinese acquisition of Australian land—about those who play the game and those who die trying.

Everyone knows about Santa's Good and Naughty Lists but Carl is sure there's a third list: The Snotty List. But how is a 10 year old boy from Scranton, PA going to get to the North Pole to prove its existence? Join Carl as he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. WARNING: This book contains snot. Lots and lots of snot.

Grow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, nature friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot, from small terrace or allotment to smallholding.Learn how to successfully layer root crops, fruit, perennial vegetables and edible shrubs below tree crops, cultivating an edible garden that doesn’t look like a traditional vegetable plot. A forest garden is wildlife friendly, provides nutrient-den...

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