Outback Noir

Read on if you like your crime fiction with an Australian twist.

Updated January 3, 2024
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Wake
Burr, Shelley
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE DEBUT CRIME ACWA NED KELLY AWARD 2023WINNER OF THE ABIA'S MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEBUT FICTION INDIE BOOK AWARD 2023'Politically savvy, cleverly plotted . . . the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of...
Lowbridge
Campbell, Lucy.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury.    1987: It's late...
When we fall
Clifford, Aoife
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2023 ACWA Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Davitt Award 'It isn't strangers you need to worry about here. Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. Every victim, every ...
Crimson lake
Fox, Candice
Paper Book
'One of the best crime thrillers of the year' LEE CHILD 'A masterful novel' HARLAN COBEN 'A bright new star' JAMES PATTERSON 12.46- Thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 12.47- Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside...
Scrublands
Hammer, Chris
Paper Book
Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia.
The dry
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." --Stephen King NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up...You'll...
The lost man
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." --Stephen King Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harper...
Stone Town
Hickey, Margaret
Paper Book
With its gold-rush history long in the past, Stone Town has seen better days. And it's now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons . . . When three teenagers stumble upon a body in dense bushland one rainy Friday night, Senior Sergeant Mark Ariti's hopes for a...
Madukka the River Serpent
Janson, Julie.
Paper Book
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services. It took her thirty hours to complete online. Now, she has set up her own private investigation service: Yanakirri Investigative...
An isolated incident
Maguire, Emily
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 NED KELLY AWARDS"Forebodingly rhythmic ... a harrowing, fascinating, compelling work" The AustralianWhen 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee,...

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The roadhouse
McGinnis, Kerry
Paper Book
A Hasty Homecoming When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately leaves Melbourne to fly home to the remote family roadhouse east of Alice Springs. It has been years since her last visit and her relationship with her mother, Molly...
Bloodwood Creek
McGinnis, Kerry.
Paper Book
'There's a killer roaming the roads and you're out here on your own, picking up strangers ...' When Emily's beautiful cousin Aspen goes missing somewhere in the Outback, no one seems to take it seriously, not even the police. After all, Aspen has a history of drug use and a...
The bluffs
Perry, Kyle
Paper Book
LONGLISTED - ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year SHORTLISTED - Indie Book of the Year - Debut Fiction SHORTLISTED - Dymocks Book of the Year 'Tense, atmospheric and unsettling, this book will stay with you long after you turn the...
Heist
Schofield, Robert.
Paper Book
Stolen gold, murderous bikers, and crooked cops are just the beginning of Gareth Ford's troubles in an action-packed debut crime novel set in Australia Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to...
No country for girls
Styles, Emma
Paper Book
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. 'An unrelenting page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'A triumph' THE i 'The real star is the desolate Outback' THE TIMES ...
No trace
Trant, Michael.
Paper Book
From the author of WILD DOGS comes an electrifying combination of outback action thriller and the classic locked room mystery. 'Did you have to kill them all?' It's the question Gabe Ahern has been running from since he bust open a major criminal...
Darkness for light
Viskic, Emma
Ebook
The wife and the widow
White, Christian
Paper Book

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