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WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction Short-listed for the the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Named a Best Fiction Book of the Year by...

"No one does suspense better." --Stephen King Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this "razor-sharp and emotionally charged" (Lisa Gardner) psychological thriller, which finally unlocks the secrets of Evie's past. The mystery of Evie Cormac's background has...

From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski. In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to kill her; a prominent businessman...

The acclaimed author of the "tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) Before You Knew My Name returns with a fresh suspense novel about a woman haunted by a serial killer and the ghosts he left behind. Ruth-Ann Baker is a college dropout, a bartender--and an...

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center? CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's...

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Maori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes of New Zealand upends a long-ago murder conviction After the perils of a case that landed much too close to...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. ​ Renée Ballard and the...

Jacquie Pham's transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley's The Guest List with the historical...