Australian Books

Dead Point by Peter Temple

Title: Dead PointAuthor: Peter TemplePages: 275Published Date: 2000Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 3rd book in the Jack Irish seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisJack Irish – lawyer, gambler and people-finder – is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman …

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Black Tide by Peter Temple

Title: Black TideAuthor: Peter TemplePages: 311Published Date: 1998Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 2nd book in the Jack Irish seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisJack Irish – lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people – is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the son of an old workmate of …

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Bad Debts by Peter Temple

Title: Bad DebtsAuthor: Peter TemplePages: 320Published Date: 1996Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 1st book in the Jack Irish seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThere wasn’t anything the cops could do for you if people wanted to kill you. Not unless there was something you could do for the cops, and then you ended up living in a …

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Wild Place by Christian White

Title: Wild PlaceAuthor: Christian WhitePages: 384Published Date: 26 October 2021Publisher: Affirm PressSeries Details: Stand AloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIn the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic Australian suburb of Camp Hill. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance. When the police won’t …

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Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher

Title: Chain of EvidenceAuthor: Garry DisherPages: 375Published Date: 2007Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 4th book in the Hal Challis / Peninsula seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisTen-year-old Katie Blasko is missing.Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss …

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Snapshot by Garry Disher

Title: SnapshotAuthor: Garry DisherPages: 337Published Date: 2005Publisher: Text PublishingSeries Details: 3rd book in the Hal Challis / Peninsula seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe neat suburban homes of the peninsula seem like an improbable setting for sex parties, blackmail and murder. Winter is closing in on the coastal community of Waterloo, and behind the closed doors …

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Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher

Title: Kittyhawk DownAuthor: Garry DisherPages: 288Published Date: January 2003Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 2nd book in the Hal Challis Peninsula seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisAn unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings.As …

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Before It Breaks by Dave Warner

Title: Before It BreaksAuthor: Dave WarnerPages: 430Published Date: June 2015Publisher: Fremantle PressSeries Details: 2nd book in the Snowy Lane / Dan Clement seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisDetective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town cops. Here, in the …

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Exxxpresso by Dave Warner

Title: ExxxpressoAuthor: Dave WarnerPages: 376Published Date: January 2000Publisher: PicadorSeries Details: Stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisJust out of the big house, Rick is a good natured ex-crim with a plan to franchise a chain of cafés based on a prison theme. To finance his dream, he borrows from a low-life drug dealer and full-time paranoid, …

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City of Light by Dave Warner

Title: City of LightAuthor: Dave WarnerPages: 405Published Date: 1 March 1995Publisher: Fremantle PressSeries Details: 1st book in the Snowy Lane / Dan Clement seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s Synopsis’Jesus Christ. I found one.’ These words are blurted over the phone to Constable Snowy Lane, who is preoccupied with no more than a ham sandwich and getting …

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