Publisher’s SynopsisIt began as a routine investigation into a supposed drowning.But Cliff Hardy, private detective, soon found himself literally fighting for his life in the murky, violent underworld of Bondi.The truth about John Singer, black marketeer and poker machine king, is out there somewhere – amidst the drug addicts and prostitutes and alcoholics. Hardy’s job …
Publisher’s SynopsisCaleb Zelic can’t hear you. But he can see everything.The pulsating follow-up thriller to the acclaimed Resurrection Bay.Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours.But when a young woman …
Title: The Marvellous BoyAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 176Published Date: 1982Publisher: Pan AustraliaSeries Details: 3rd book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisFor Hardy, big money and big problems seem to go together. And Lady Catherine Chatterton has plenty of both.Widowed, Lady Catherine presides over the crumbling Chatterton fortunes. Blowzy, boozy Bettina is her only …
Title: True WestAuthor: David Whish-WilsonPages: 255Published Date: 2019Publisher: Fremantle PressSeries Details: 1st book in the Lee Southern seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisWestern Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, 17-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose.Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists …
Title: White MeatAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 198Published Date: 1981Publisher: FawcettSeries Details: 2nd book in the Frank Swann seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisHe needs a nice smooth job, something to pay the bills – and keep his glass filled.But smooth this one isn’t. Ted Tarleton is a very rich bookie whose beautiful, spoiled daughter, Noni, is missing. …
Keep abreast of the newest crime book releases from your favourite best-selling authors and discover new and emerging authors. Listed below are the new Australian crime fiction novels that were released in 2020. Wherever possible the exact release date is included with the publisher details. We have also included the synopsis that was supplied by …
Publisher’s SynopsisIt’s the early 1980s: the heady days of excess, dirty secrets and personal favours. Former detective Frank Swann is still in disgrace, working as a low-rent PI. But when he’s offered a security job by the premier’s fixer, it soon becomes clear that someone is bugging the premier’s phone – and it may cost Swann more …
Publisher’s Synopsis”The villain was in custody as they say, but villains were coming out of the woodwork and the past was sending out tentacles which were winding around the necks of people living and dying in the present. It’s a dying trade I’m in.”Meet Cliff Hardy. Smoker, drinker, ex-boxer. And private investigator.When the wealthy Bryn …
Publisher’s Synopsis1961, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in a tiny coastal Australian town. The ghosts of the past still haunt him, but otherwise Coral …
Publisher’s SynopsisFor ex-detective Frank Swann, being on the outside of Western Australia’s police force is the only way to get justice done.Perth in 1979 is a city of celebration and corruption. There are street parties, official glad-handing – even a royal visit – to commemorate a century and a half since colonisation.But behind the festivities …