Outback Noir

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

Updated January 3, 2024
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Wake : a novel
Burr, Shelley
Paper Book
"Politically savvy, cleverly plotted...the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive."--New York Times Book Review For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in...
Crimson Lake : a novel
Fox, Candice
Paper Book
How do you move on when the world won't let you? 12:46: Claire Bingleystands alone at a bus stop 12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 12:52: The girl is missing . . . Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time--that's all it took to ruin...
Scrublands
Hammer, Chris
Paper Book
In this searing, "indisputable page-turner" (Associated Press), a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act--in the vein of The Dry and Where the Crawdads Sing. In Riversend, an isolated Australian community...
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...
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...
Darkness for light
Viskic, Emma
Paper Book
The third book in Emma Viskic's pulsating Caleb Zelic series, perfect for fans of Jane Harper Caleb Zelic can't hear you. But he can see everything.   After a lifetime of bad decisions PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, his...
The wife and the widow
White, Christian
Paper Book
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow...

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