GREAT AUSSIE BUSH NOIR CRIME - IF YOU LIKE CHRIS HAMMER, JANE HARPER AND GARRY DISHER, YOU'LL PROBABLY LOVE THE LACONIC QUEENSLANDER, JACK PAIGE.Deep in the Australian outback, Elisabeth Lambert, an acclaimed Hollywood actress, returns unannounced to Gemtown but is brutally murdered in the Sapphire Artesian Resort soon afterwards.Shocked by the death of his childhood sweetheart, Private Investigator Jack Paige, an ex-Special Forces Prosecutor, vows to find ...

GREAT AUSSIE BUSH NOIR CRIME - IF YOU LIKE CHRIS HAMMER, JANE HARPER AND GARRY DISHER,YOU'LL LOVE THIS LACONIC QUEENSLANDER.Private Investigator Jack Paige's return to Gemtown was supposed to be routine. Yet what he finds shocks even this unflappable ex-Special Forces Prosecutor: murder, corruption and entrenched interests trying to shaft him. Yet again !!!Deep in the Australian outback, Elisabeth Lambert, a...

Martin Scarsden returns in the unmissable new thriller from Chris Hammer, bestselling author of Scrublands and Times Crime Book of the Year (2023) Dead Man's Creek.MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM - OR BURY HIM?A bomb at his book launch. Gunfire in his hometown. Someone wants journalist Martin Scarsden dead.Fleeing for his life into the outback, he learns that nowher...

The dark and twisty fourth book in the Joe O'Loughlin series, the inspiration for the major ITV drama The Suspect.Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend - Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. ...

Dunedin's favourite young police officer Sam Shephard is drawn into a perplexing investigation when a series of shipping containers wash up on a sleepy New Zealand beach, and then a body is discovered…'Fast-moving New Zealand procedural … the Edinburgh of the south has never been more deadly' Ian Rankin'If you like taut, pacy thrillers with a wonderful sense of place, this is the book for you' Liam McIlvanney'A sass...

Fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride will devour this dark and disturbing thriller.'Intensely enthralling' OBSERVER'Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic' DAILY MIRROR'A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way'GUARDIAN'If it's real terror yo...

THE COMPLETE NINE-BOOK JOE O'LOUGHLIN SERIES BY MASTER OF SUSPENSE MICHAEL ROBOTHAM. NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING AIDAN TURNER.The SuspectJoseph O'Loughlin appears to have it all, but a perfect life is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit, he embarks upon a search that will take him into the darkest...

A surprise inheritance.A locked cellar.A shocking secret from her family’s past."A deliciously witty and ingenious mystery." Netgalley reviewer.When 30-year-old mystery author Tiggy Jones inherits an old boathouse in England from the grandmother she never knew, her shock turns to excitement.Until she stumbles upon the hidden cellar and can’t find the key.Soon she’s tangled in a despe...

What makes a man turn his back on society? What makes him return?For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce.But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus. Others feared he was a more sinister figure.The truth was that he was neither miraculous nor malevole...

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR LOVE?Kay Schubach almost has it all – a great job, a beautiful apartment, a life of champagne and mixing it with Sydney's A-list, and a steady relationship.By chance she meets handsome and charismatic Simon. He sweeps her off her feet with promises the one thing her younger boyfriend won't give her – a baby. She takes the biggest risk of her life, leaving all certainties behind for love.All too quickly, the romance turns sou...

A bargain set of 3 dark, hard-hitting thrillers.In Stalkers DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenberg is investigating the disappearance of 38 different women. Each one was happy and successful until they vanished without a trace …Touch sees DI Savage and her team struggling with their investigation into a string of horrific attacks on young women. Stopping at just one victim will never be enough for this killer …In Cold Kill DS Laura McGainty is agonising over the link between two...

An open road. A dead cop. A killer in the hills …I flicked on the torch, swept the surrounds. Nothing. Then I directed the beam into the trees on the other side of the road.Up on a high, jutting branch, something moved. It may have been a white face, a pale body, a curved leg. Or it may have been none of those things. Was it human? Too quick for me to tell. A ripple, a blink and it was gone. But it seemed to leave an afterglow, an impression up...