The national bestseller: John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita.On 4 February 1986, John Cobby’s life imploded.He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: ‘The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.’ As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five me...

They call her 'the gangbuster'.The police force can be a tough place for a woman, but Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace rose to the top with grace, humour and an iconic sense of style. In her incredible 36-year career with NSW Police, Wallace took on murderers and drug suppliers, and dismantled the state's most nefarious gangs.Tenacious, perceptive and sharp, Wallace commanded a range of police crime squads, bringing order to the wild west of 1990s C...

WINNER OF THE 2018 BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY. Includes Josh Malerman's 'House of the Head' as seen in Creepshow. An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre, including Josh Malerman, Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood and Christopher Golden. FEAR COMES IN MANY FORMS The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of nineteen brand-new stories. In ...

An action-packed prequel to the new IllFonic video game PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS – revealing deeply buried secrets in the battle between the ultimate hunters and their human prey.This official prequel novel leads into the new PlayStation®4 video game from IllFonic. PREDATOR: STALKING SHADOWS is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity. U.S. Marine Scott Devlin takes on a new assignment that begins with the clean-up of a Los An...

The official novelization of the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie with a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker.For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies.When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal Hunters' return to earth, only a ragtag crew of ...

Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It’s addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly disfigured and lucky to be alive. Who was behind such a violent and calculated attack? What did they want? And why was the parcel addressed to his girlfriend?Suspicion immediately falls...

A gripping story of bikies, feuds and a deadly clash of clansSydney has been the scene of the bloodiest gang war in living memory. There have been at least 20 people murdered, including innocent bystanders, women and a number of high-profile crime figures.The Daily Telegraph crime writers Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan have been at the forefront of every one of the hits, documenting the carnage in their newspaper columns, podcasts, Foxtel documentary, video series an...

The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history’s cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men’s souls like pawns in chess …The poison apples of AegleThe human sacrifice on CreteThe beautiful predator of PalermoThe damned souls on PovegliaThe evil artefact at Koy...

An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre.Twenty-one brand-new stories of the ominous and terrifying from some of the horror genre's most talented writers. In 'The Dead Thing' Paul Tremblay draws us into the world of a neglected teenage girl and her younger brother and the evil that lurks at the heart of their family. In Gemma Files' 'Bulb' a woman calls in to a podcast to tell the terrifying story of why she has escaped o...

"… how do you describe that moment when the lights go out in someone's eyes and the darkness takes over? They become something you can't reason with, something whose conscience you can't appeal to—like a shark or a machine. They look human, but they're not. Not in the sense that the majority of us understand, anyway. They have no moral code. They become less than human—inadequate, incomplete. And that incompleteness can make them dangerous, even deadly."When Ruth Gemmill's younger ...

When Ruth Gemmill’s younger brother Alex fails to return her calls, she sets off to check up on him. Unable to find him in Greenwell, the town where he has been living and teaching, she begins her tentative enquiries. She soon discovers the locals to be frustratingly unhelpful, while the eerie town holds more questions than clues. Why are the police so uncooperative? Why is Greenwell so dark and lonely? And who is the “grey man” the schoolchildren saw Alex with not long before he went miss...

Preparing for Retirement Can Be as Challenging as Mountain Climbing.But Did You Know the Descent Has More Potential for Danger?While you'd never attempt climbing Mount Rainier without adequate training and an experienced escort, most try to navigate retirement planning alone or with amateurs. Without the proper preparation, those years after age sixty-five can be just as hazardous as the trip down the highest summit in Washington state....