Australian Books

Crook As Rookwood by Chris Nyst

Title: Crook As RookwoodAuthor: Chris NystPages: 458Published Date: 2005Publisher: HarperCollins AustraliaSeries Details: stand alone Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis Eddie Moran had been sticking grasshoppers down Slick’s shirt since she was ten years old and as she looked at him now, with his bird’s nest haircut and his stupid glasses, she couldn’t think …

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Gone by Chris Nyst

Title: GoneAuthor: Chris NystPages: 406Published Date: 2000Publisher: Harper Collins AustraliaSeries Details: stand alone Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis On a hazy summer’s morning in 1965, nine-year-old Michael McCabe and his four-year-old sister, Catherine, kiss their mother goodbye and set off to the beach. They never return. As a junior police constable, Bill Keliher …

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Cop This! by Chris Nyst

Title: Cop This!Author: Chris NystPages: 444Published Date: 1999Publisher: HarperCollins AustraliaSeries Details: stand alone Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis In 1969 a home-made bomb explodes in the sleazy heart of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, killing eleven people, and igniting a controversy that could threaten the government itself. When small-time criminal Johnny Arnold is charged, his …

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The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis

Title: The UnbelievedAuthor: Vikki PetraitisPages: 384Published Date: 1 August 2022Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: Stand Alone Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis ‘So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?’ Jane’s voice took on an indignant pitch. ‘Girls lie sometimes.’ I nodded. ‘And rapists lie all the time.’ When Senior Detective Antigone …

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The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie

Title: The TorrentAuthor: Dinuka McKenziePages: 333Published Date: 2 February 2022Publisher: HarperCollins AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book in the Detective Kate Miles series Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis In Northern New South Wales, heavily pregnant and a week away from maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is exhausted and counting down the days. But a …

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Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland

Title: Gunshot RoadAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 369Published Date: 2010Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 2nd book in the Emily Tempest series Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis Emily Tempest. Small, black, snaky as a taipan’s tooth: the woman least likely to pursue a career in policing. Now, somehow, Emily’s become the aboriginal Community Police Officer for the …

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Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland

Title: Diamond DoveAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 322Published Date: 2006Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 1st book in the Emily Tempest series Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis “I parked my little white ute on the outskirts of the camp and sat there, looking out at the scatter of corrugated iron hovels. Somewhere in the distance a cock …

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Canticle Creek by Adrian Hyland

Title: Canticle CreekAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 342Published Date: 1 December 2021Publisher: Ultimo PressSeries Details: Stand Alone Buy A Hardcopy Buy eBook Publisher’s Synopsis When Adam Lawson’s wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s body, the whole town assumes it’s an open and shut case. But Jesse Redpath isn’t from Canticle Creek. Where she comes …

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