'tense and compelling' – Garry Disher'The Strip is an eye-popping, nightmarish miasma that sets a new bar for Australian crime. A total triumph in every respect.' – Chris FlynnWhen a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption.As she delves deeper into the case, Lana reluctantly pairs up wit...

Shortlisted for the Prestigious Ned Kelly AwardNEW EDITION contains bonus material: four collected short stories + a new story written entirely for this edition.Four days to locate the killer.Four days to take revenge.Four days to find redemption.Jim Harris is a hard-drinking Australian detective on his way to a nervous breakdown. Every day, he works alongside corrupt police and dangerous crooks. That is, until a brutal murder case unr...

A Gripping Thriller Shortlisted for the Prestigious Ned Kelly AwardNEW EDITION contains bonus material: a new afterword, an extended interview with Iain Ryan about the writing of the novel, 3 deleted scenes, and a previously unpublished TV script adapted from the book.In the heart of small-town Australia, a killer lurks in the shadows. When local girl Maya Kibby is found murdered, the once-quiet college town of Gatton, Queensland, is plunge...

"One of Australia's most interesting next-gen crime writers."SYDNEY MORNING HERALD"Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian."PETER DOYLEAn ex-con circles back to L.A. and knows it is a mistake. Elsewhere, in Vegas, a restless kid buys a mysterious, stolen guitar. Two characters, worlds apart, but drawn together by the same buried history. Spread across...

Corrupt cops, powerful criminals. A PI caught in the middle. The Gold Coast's darkest hour.In the midst of a violent crime wave, Detective Bruno Karras (The Strip) investigates the disappearance of a wealthy family, confronting corruption within his own ranks. Political operative Mark Nichols arrives, tasked with reviving the troubled Fantasyland theme park amidst suspicious delays. Caught between ruthless gangsters and corrupt officials, PI Amy Owens navigates a w...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime FictionJack Harris, the disgraced son of Australia's most powerful business tycoon, has just been exiled to Byron Bay as a junior journalist at his father's smallest regional newspaper, The Beacon. His arrival coincides with the disappearance of the newspaper's editor, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, while out on his morning surf. When Patrick's body is discovered in the ocean, with a severed leg, it app...

When overworked forensic pathologist Nicola Fox arrives for a long-overdue break at her holiday house in Brunswick Heads, on the NSW north coast, she's shocked to discover someone sunbaking on one of the sun lounges in her backyard. And that the sunbaker has been dead for some time.Rumours soon emerge that the sunbaker took more than a few dark secrets to his grave, secrets many people - and especially the police - were keen to bury. When the arse-covering and finger-pointing begin...

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...

Kit McCarthy hasn't seen her identical twin sister, Billie, in more than a decade.The sisters don't see eye to eye, which is understandable, considering Kit's a police officer and Billie followed their violent father into a life of crime.Kit is no angel. Burnt out by years working in child protection, she has been accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a violent drunk. Kit has just been ordered to take time off work when she gets a frantic message from Billie, te...

SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth – and expose a deadly enemy.Shortlisted for the 2022 Danger Prize.Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Award.'He heard a voice, someone calling out in the distance, followed by a loud fluttering of birds. Bailey looked up just in time to see a body falling from the ...

"A rising star of crime fiction" Sunday Times"Outback noir has a new star" The TimesLocated off the coast of South Australia, Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring deadly great white sharks and forgotten shipwrecks.Over the centuries the Islanders have cultivated a sense of self-sufficiency, independence and resilience. But times are changing: multimillionaires from the mainlan...

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES'S. R. White is the real deal' CHRIS HAMMERDeep in the Australian wilderness, a famed sinkhole renowned as a stunning freediving spot attracts people from all over the world. But there's a dark, puzzling mystery when a local sports hero - and the glamorous face of a high-adrenaline video channel - is found dead far beneath the surface.Despite diving the sinkhole hundreds of times, his lifeless b...