Title: Helga’s WebAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 288Published Date: 1970Publisher: Harper Collins AustraliaSeries Details: 2nd book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisSet in Sydney, Australia, where a young girl is involved in blackmail, Detective-Sergeant Malone reaches Helga too late to warn her about her dangerous game. She has already received her final pay-off.My Review of …
Title: The Low RoadAuthor: Chris WomersleyPages: 280Published Date: 2007Publisher: Scribe PublicationsSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisA young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a doctor who …
Title: The High CommissionerAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 256Published Date: 1966Publisher: Harper Collins AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe High Commissioner is accused of murder, and in Sydney Scobie Malone is given the job of going to London and bringing him back. At the same time the High Commissioner’s murder …
Title: Vale Byron BayAuthor: Wayne GroganPages: 312Published Date: 2006Publisher: Brandl & SchlesingerSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe publisher of Vale Byron Bay doesn’t provide a short summary of the book – instead it contains the following tribute.’Wayne Grogan’s sentences open like flowers and snap shut like switchknives. In his power-driven language he prtrays …
Title: BanjawarnAuthor: Josh KempPages: 416Published Date: 7 February 2022Publisher: UAW PublishingSeries Details: stand alone (debut)Buy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisGarreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off …
Title: Cutters EndAuthor: Margaret HickeyPages: 352Published Date: 17 August 2021Publisher: Bantam AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book in the Inspector Mark Ariti seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisA desert highway. A remote town. A murder that won’t stay hidden.New Year’s Eve, 1989. Eighteen-year-old Ingrid Mathers is hitchhiking her way to Alice Springs. Bored, hungover and separated from her …
Title: Junkie PilgrimAuthor: Wayne GroganPages: 253Published Date: 2003Publisher: Brandl & SchlesingerSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThis is a raw tale of addiction, corruption and murder that moves between the dark underside of Sydney’s waterfront and the alleyways of Kings Cross.My Review of Junkie Pilgrim by Wayne GroganThe streets of Sydney’s Kings Cross have …
Title: Lying Beside youAuthor: Michael RobothamPages: 390Published Date: 23 June 2022Publisher: ScribnerSeries Details: 3rd book in the Cyrus Haven seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisTwenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer.Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric …
Title: No Way BackAuthor: J.R. CarrollPages: 244Published Date: 1992Publisher: Pan MacmillanSeries Details: 1st book in the Dennis Gatz seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisHis fellow cops say he’s trigger-happy.His ex-wife says he’s unstable.His new lover says he’s obsessive.His superiors say he’s off the case and under investigation.His world is coming apart…He’s a cop on the trail …
Title: Sweet JimmyAuthor: Bryan BrownPages: 296Published Date: 3 September 2021Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisPhil and Sweet Jimmy are cousins. Phil grows orchids . . . spider orchids . . . learnt about them in the nick. Jimmy likes orchids, too, but there are other things he likes even more …