Title: Cop This!Author: Chris NystPages: 444Published Date: 1999Publisher: HarperCollins AustraliaSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIn 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 fight for justice sets two …
Title: The UnbelievedAuthor: Vikki PetraitisPages: 384Published Date: 1 August 2022Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: Stand AloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’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 Pollard moves to the coastal …
Title: The TorrentAuthor: Dinuka McKenziePages: 333Published Date: 2 February 2022Publisher: HarperCollins AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book in the Detective Kate Miles seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIn 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 violent hold-up at a …
Title: The Dark SideAuthor: Barry MorwoodPages: 363Published Date: 1997Publisher: Saga PublishingSeries Details: Stand AloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe three Castle sister, Hilary Erin and Josie know about the dark side.Hilary the successful Gold Coast lawyer, haunted by her client’s savage death.Josie married to the dark side, lives an ongoing nightmare in prosperity.Erin the brilliant artist, …
Title: Gunshot RoadAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 369Published Date: 2010Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 2nd book in the Emily Tempest seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisEmily 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 outback (not to mention throwback) …
Title: Diamond DoveAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 322Published Date: 2006Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 1st book in the Emily Tempest seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’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 crowed. Or a crow …
Title: Canticle CreekAuthor: Adrian HylandPages: 342Published Date: 1 December 2021Publisher: Ultimo PressSeries Details: Stand AloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisWhen 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 from, the truth often …
Title: Darkness For LightAuthor: Emma ViskicPages: 267Published Date: 2 December 2019Publisher: Echo PublishingSeries Details: 3rd book in the Caleb Zelic seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisAfter a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He’s in therapy, reconnecting with the Deaf community, and reconciling with his beloved wife.But he can’t …
Title: Man In the ShadowsAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 194Published Date: 1988Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 11th book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisGareth Greenway wasn’t all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that.What he wasn’t used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him into: neurosurgeons, mental patients, AIDS sufferers, all …
Title: The January ZoneAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 205Published Date: 1987Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 10th book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisPolitician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician’s ‘security consultant’ but the dislikes bombers, hitmen and hate-mailers even …