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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Crimson Lake
Fox, Candice
Paper Book
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time -- that's all it took to ruin Sydney Detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Ted is now a free man -- and public enemy number one. He flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy,...
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Scrublands
Hammer, Chris
Paper Book
A #1 International BestsellerIn an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in...
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The dry
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017WINNER ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017"I devoured it in just over 24 hours ... Spellbinding" Ian Rankin"A breathless pageturner ... A secret on every page" The New York Times "One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Read it!" David BaldacciWHO...
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The lost man
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
'I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!' Liane MoriartyFrom the international bestselling author of The Dry and new novel The Survivors.The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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No country for girls
Styles, Emma
Paper Book
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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...
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Darkness for Light
Viskic, Emma
Paper Book
The third thrilling instalment in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series.
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The wife and the widow
White, Christian
Paper Book
Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, this is a story told from two perspectives. Kate Keddie is devastated when her husband goes missing without a trace. But then she finds out he quit his job months earlier without telling her, and lied about the trip he was...
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