A vigilante with a message. The outsider detective. A cold case they both want solved."One of the best crime mystery books I have read. ★★★★★"Nominated for the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards.Rachael Schlank is a straight-talking detective who's always felt like a fish out of water, bouncing between departments over the years. Now she's finally found a home in Victoria Police's Cold Case Unit.When a vigilante starts targeting hunters, leaving clues about a long-ago col...

Betrayal cannot be buried forever.In the tiny Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, retired Australian cop and Vietnam veteran Pete McAuslan has retreated to his fishing cabin to write his memoirs. In Sydney, his grandson, journalist and trashy true crime author Xander, learns that Pete has taken his own life, begging forgiveness in a suicide note.Arriving in Mole Creek in the aftermath of Pete's death, Xander discovers that his grandfather's laptop is missing. He begins t...

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...

Three housemates – one dead, one missing and one accused of murder.Journalist Olive Groves worked on the “Housemate Homicide” story as a junior reporter and became obsessed with the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property sparking controversy and begging the question – what really happened between the three housemates that night? Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with preco...

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...

**A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER.A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS**During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-profile charity attend a critical meeting at White Ash Ridge, a small hotel nestled in the Australian wilderness.As the temperature rises, a body is found lying in the thick bush, bludgeoned to death.One of the four remaining guests is...

'A true edge-of-your-seat thriller ... A total page-turner' KELLI HAWKINSSomeone knows your secrets. Someone knows your shame. And they won't stay buried for long.A searing, dark and dangerous thriller from an exciting new voiceWhen prison psychologist Dr Laura Fleming is assigned charismatic inmate Justin Jones to assess for parole, alarm bells ring. Working with some of the state...