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.

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 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...

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...

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.

A gripping crime thriller set in the stunning Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.Nick Chester is a sergeant for the Havelock police. Life in the remote Marlborough Sounds is paradise—unless you're hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge. Then, remote beauty has its own kind of danger.When two locals vanish and their bodies are found, Chester must confront a chilling possibility: a Pied Piper is at large. As he investigates, he uncovers a web of small-town sec...

Adonis-Tammuz is the name of a Phoenician deity, the Adonis of the Greeks. He was originally a Babylonian sun-god, called Dumuzu, the husband of Ishtar, who corresponds to Aphrodite of the Greeks.This booklet contains one prayer . Yes one prayer but a very powerful prayer or call it an enchantment if you wish that will bring AncientPowerful Magick into your very being that will create circumstances for which you will be granted all that your personal ambitions desire.Money,...

A dark and gripping police procedural set in Fremantle, Australia. When a series of murders target the city's homeless population, Detective Cato Kwong faces a chilling case that hits close to home. Leaving his wife and baby girl, Cato races to stop a killer who's not only taking lives but also drawing closer to Cato himself, one body at a time. As the investigation deepens, a journalist's online game with the killer threatens to expose long-buried secrets and ignite a dea...

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 Sam f...

Everyone knows about Santa’s good and naughty lists,but Carl is sure there’s a third list:the snotty list.It all started with the song “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” One day, when he was at the mall in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with his mom, Carl heard it playing through the speakers and there were the lyrics “he’s gonna find out who’s snotty and nice.”Ten-year-old Carl is determined to prove the existence of the snotty list and realizes he needs to travel to ...

How would ordinary African Christians interpret the figure and book of Job--the quintessential biblical book on suffering--from contexts of extreme poverty, tropical disease, and rampant suffering? How do African Christians culturally understand issues of theodicy and the nature of evil? What role does the devil play in African Pentecostalism? How does the biblical lament empower faith and foster hope for people living with HIV/AIDS? In what way does a theology of (eschatological) hope inf...