They Kill Without Mercy. Disappear Without Trace.They are The Two.And now the stakes are raised once more for Detective January David.5 lie dead, brutally murdered - the first taken on the night of Halloween and as autumn bleeds into winter more ritualistic murders are discovered.January must battle his demons, for in his mind lies the clue to stopping a ruthless murderer.But his worst nightmares have literally come true when he discovers there's not...

Matthew Liu sees his parents gunned down on a lonely Sydney backstreet. A young woman, the killer, stares him in the face before fleeing the scene. When the police arrive, all they find is the discarded gun. Detective Inspector Paul Harrigan's unit is pitched into a high-profile investigation with little to go on. Who is the young woman? How can she have vanished into thin air? When DC Grace Riordan follows up a connection between one of the victims and a termination clinic, pieces start t...

Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his latest crime scene. He is confronted by a lifeless figure suspended ten feet above a theatre stage, blood pouring from her face into a coffin below. This gruesome execution is the work of an elusive serial killer.Three women from three different London suburbs, each murdered with elaborate and chilling precision. And as Janua...

1974, Oxford. Detective Briony Williams, starting a new job with the Thames Valley police in Oxford, is called to investigate the murder of a 17-year-old girl. Convinced that the girl’s murder is no ordinary domestic crime, Briony delves into the world of the supernatural when she finds a stone carved with an ancient cryptic message clutched in the victim’s hand. The police need solid scientific evidence that will stand up in court, but in order to solve the case Briony must ally herself w...

It is the fierce English summer of 1976 and the Punk movement is on the rise. 'Chaos' is the catch cry down in its heartland at the World's End of London, and Detective Briony Williams wryly observes that though 'they stick pins in themselves, wear leather masks and insult the Queen', most of this is not against the law. But things take a darker turn as a new group calling itself ‘Sudden Deff’ shows signs of wanting to live up to its name. When Briony learns that she and her colleagues hav...

Plymouth, 1967. Schoolgirl Nell Adams, all the newspapers reported, finds murder victim on train. And her photo covers the front pages. So he knew her name and her face. His face, or lack of it, filled her nightmares until she woke screaming ... London, 1971. Nell is a university student in London, trying to put the past behind her. But as a series of murders reveals a killer obsessed with Jack the Ripper, she realises her nightmares might be coming true. Detective Briony Williams, also ju...

Paris has seduced many admirers, but for visiting Australian Ellie Nielsen it's true love. So deep is her infatuation that, if she can't have it all to herself, she'll only be satisfied with buying her own little piece of Paris. The object of her desire seems so simple: the sort of apartment she's seen a thousand times in magazines and books. Something effortlessly charming, and old, and quirky - and expertly decorated. Something exuding character and Parisian chic. Something quintessentia...

Gemma and Kit's childhood was overshadowed by their father's conviction for murdering their mother. Thirty years later he is released from prison, sparking conflict between the sisters, who have different opinions about his guilt. At the same time a series of gruesome incidents involving slashed women's clothing escalates into a serial murder. Both Gemma and Kit become caught up in a terror linked to past secrets. In a gripping climax which threatens their very lives, demons from the past ...

On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated and idiosyncratic community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination. One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. The only survivors of the fire are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter Golden. How could s...