Australian Books

Wrack by James Bradley

Title: WrackAuthor: James BradleyPages: 341Published Date: 1 January 1998Publisher: Vintage AustraliaSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisArchaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of the discovery of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man …

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Eden by Dorothy Johnston

Title: EdenAuthor: Dorothy JohnstonPages: 224Published Date: 11 September 2007Publisher: Wakefield PressSeries Details: 3rd book in the Sandra Mahoney seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisUnexpectedly alone in the summer holidays, security consultant Sandra Mahoney mulls over an undignified photograph that has been published in The Canberra Times. When a lobby group asks her to investigate a company …

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Prima Facie by Suzie Miller

Title: Prima FacieAuthor: Suzie MillerPages: 350Published Date: 26 September 2023Publisher: Picador AustraliaSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisTessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. The law is a game and …

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Last Survivor by Tony Park

Title: Last SurvivorAuthor: Tony ParkPages: 416Published Date: 30 June 2020Publisher: Pan Macmillan AustraliaSeries Details: 4th book in the Sonja Kurtz seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisGREED.Joanne Flack is on the run – suspected of stealing a rare African plant thought to be extinct and worth millions of dollars.DANGER.Sonja Kurtz is hired by the CIA to hunt …

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Opal by Patricia Wolf

Title: OpalAuthor: Patricia WolfPages: 384Published Date: 30 September 2024Publisher: Echo PublishingSeries Details: 3rd book in the DS Lucas Walker seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisA notorious unmarked track through outback Australia, the ‘Wire’ crosses slabs of lawless land, body-dumping grounds and mobile-phone blackspots.Harvey Buck is certainly desperate. Racing to be with his dying girlfriend, he encounters …

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The Wild Date Palm by Diane Armstrong

Title: The Wild Date PalmAuthor: Diane ArmstrongPages: 415Published Date: 1 April 2024Publisher: HQ FictionSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisDuring a train journey across Turkey’s Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny.Convinced that …

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The Cull by Tony Park

Title: The CullAuthor: Tony ParkPages: 432Published Date: 26 September 2017Publisher: Pan Macmillan AustraliaSeries Details: 3rd book in the Sonja Kurtz seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisOne mission … countless enemies.Former mercenary Sonja Kurtz is hired by business tycoon Julianne Clyde-Smith to head an elite squad. Their aim: to take down Africa’s top poaching kingpins and stop …

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The Cryptic Clue by Amanda Hampson

Title: The Cryptic ClueAuthor: Amanda HampsonPages: 336Published Date: 3 April 2024Publisher: VikingSeries Details: 2nd book in the Tea Ladies Mystery seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIn ZigZag Lane, in the heart of Sydney’s rag-trade district, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene find themselves in hot water. Having already solved a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting …

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The Valley by Chris Hammer

Title: The ValleyAuthor: Chris HammerPages: 464Published Date: 1 October 2024Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 4th book in the Nell Buchanan & Ivan Lucic seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisNell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back – as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet.A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, …

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A High Tide Murder by Emily George

Title: A High Tide MurderAuthor: Emily GeorgePages: 305Published Date: 20 February 2024Publisher: KensingtonSeries Details: 2nd book in the Cannabis Cafe Mysteries seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisWhat a long, strange trip it’s been for Chloe. After her dream of becoming a Parisian pastry chef—and a wife—crashed and burned, she returned home to the seaside town of …

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