Australian Books

Winter Chill by Jon Cleary

Title: Winter ChillAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 296Published Date: 1995Publisher: HarperCollinsSeries Details: 12th book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s Synopsis3.30 a.m. The Sydney monorail performs its endless circuit like a pale metal caterpillar. All for the benefit of one dead passenger. Elsewhere in the city’s bleak midwinter, Darling Harbour buzzes to the sound of …

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I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver

Title: I Shot the DevilAuthor: Ruth McIverPages: 341Published Date: 9 July 2020Publisher: Tinder PressSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisErin Sloane was sixteen when high school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends. They were her friends, too, led by the intense, charismatic Ricky Hell. Five people went into West Cypress Woods the …

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Dark Angel by John Dale

Title: Dark AngelAuthor: John DalePages: 247Published Date: 1996Publisher: Serpents TailSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisJack Buturov is a bouncer in a Sydney casino. He’s in hiding from life, his ex-wife and his chronically ill son. Damian was a rent boy hustler, who got in over his head in some bad political business. Despite …

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Dangerous Deception by Sandy Curtis

Title: Dangerous DeceptionAuthor: Sandy CurtisPages: 297Published Date: 2005Publisher: Macmillan AustraliaSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisProfessor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak. His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is dead and Breeanna is fleeing from someone even …

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Until Death by Sandy Curtis

Title: Until DeathAuthor: Sandy CurtisPages: 288Published Date: 2004Publisher: Macmillan AustraliaSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIs she a killer?Libby Daniels wakes from a drug-induced sleep to see two men crouched over her mother’s battered body. Already in shock, she flees when overhearing the men say, ‘Libby killed her’.His past will put them both in danger …

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Deadly Tide by Sandy Curtis

Title: Deadly TideAuthor: Sandy CurtisPages: 327Published Date: 2003Publisher: Macmillan AustraliaSeries Details: Stand AloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisWhen her father is arrested for murder, Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper of his fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name. Brisbane cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his …

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After the Flood by Dave Warner

Title: After the FloodAuthor: Dave WarnerPages: 261Published Date: 2 August 2022Publisher: Fremantle PressSeries Details: 4th book in the Dan Clement seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisA violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents – the theft of explosives …

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Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath

Title: Kill Your BrotherAuthor: Jack HeathPages: 334Published Date: 30 November 2021Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisWould you kill your brother to save yourself?After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He’s being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep …

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Dilemma by Jon Cleary

Title: DilemmaAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 262Published Date: 1999Publisher: HarperCollinsSeries Details: 16th book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisFrom the award-winning Jon Cleary, a new novel featuring Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, in which the routine arrest of a fugitive leads to disturbing allegations against the Crown Prosecutor, and the abduction of a child model …

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The Greater Good by Tim Ayliffe

Title: The Greater GoodAuthor: Tim AyliffePages: 373Published Date: 23 April 2018Publisher: Simon & SchusterSeries Details: 1st book in the John Bailey seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisBattered war correspondent John Bailey is a man living on the edge. He’s haunted by nightmares of being kidnapped and tortured in Iraq and he’s drinking too much to drown …

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