Darkness for Light (#3 Caleb Zelic) by Emma Viskic

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

The third thrilling instalment in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series. After 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 escape his past.A violent confrontation forces Caleb back into contact with his double-crossing partner, Frankie. When her niece is kidnapped, Frankie and Caleb must work together to save the child's life. But their efforts will risk everything, including their own lives. ...Show more

You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster

$32.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime

He's guarding a deep secret ... But so is she.  A stunning new thriller about the burden of shame from blockbuster author Sara Foster Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished, and Noah Carruso has never forgotten her. She was his first crush, his unrequited love. She was also his brother's gir lfriend.  Tom Carruso hasn't been home in over a decade. He left soon after Lizzie disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's death - intent on telling his side of the story. As the inquest looms, Noah meets Alice Pryce on  holiday. They fall for each other fast and hard, but Noah can't bear to tell Alice his deepest fears. And Alice is equally stricken - she carries a terrible secret of her own. Is the truth worth telling if it will destroy everything?  'Dark, compelling and truly memorable. Foster is one of my favourite writers' DERVLA McTIERNAN, author of The Ruin 'With richly drawn characters and a tight, deftly handled plot, YOU DON'T KNOW ME is a propulsive, dark and mysterious thriller.' Christian White, bestselling author of The Nowhere Child 'This book has it all: a gripping opening, characters I cared deeply for, a compelling mystery and heart-stopping pace. I couldn't put it down. This is Sara Foster's best book yet.' Natasha Lester, bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress Praise for Sara Foster: 'Effortless suspense and dramatic power' Sydney Morning Herald 'An enthralling mystery' Jane Harper, New York Times bestselling author of The Dry ...Show more

The Day The Lies Began by Kylie Kaden

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Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction

It seemed simple at first folding one lie over the next. She had become expert at feathering over the cracks to ensure her life appeared the same. But inside, it didn't feel fixed. It happened the day of the Moon Festival. It could have been left behind, they all could have moved on with their lives. Bu t secrets have a habit of rising to the surface, especially in small towns. Two couples, four ironclad friendships, the perfect coastal holiday town. With salt-stung houses perched like lifeguards overlooking the shore, Lago Point is the scene of postcards, not crime scenes. Wife and mother Abbi, town cop Blake, schoolteacher Hannah and local doctor Will are caught in their own tangled webs of deceit. When the truth washes in to their beachside community, so do the judgements: victim, or vigilante, who will forgive, who will betray? Not all relationships survive. Nor do all residents. ...Show more

The Night Fire (#2 Ballard & Bosch) by Michael Connelly

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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: A\Ballard and Bosch Ser. | Reading Level: 2 Crime

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him to be a homicide detective - new from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly.

The Great Divide by L J M Owen

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime

A city detective hunts a killer through a fog of lies in small town Tasmania.

The Night Fire (#2 Ballard & Bosch) (CD) by Michael Connelly

$49.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved? Audio book read by Christine Lakin and Titus Welliver. ...Show more

Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town. 'Every bit as addictive and suspenseful as The Dark Lake . . . Sarah Bailey's writing is both keenly insightful and wholly engrossing, weaving intriguing and multi -layered plots combined with complicated and compelling characters.' The BooktopianA fifteen-year-old girl has gone missing after a party in the middle of the night. The following morning her boyfriend is found brutally murdered in his home. Was the girl responsible for the murder, or is she also a victim of the killer? But who would want two teenagers dead?The aftermath of a personal tragedy finds police detective Gemma Woodstock in the coastal town of Fairhaven with her son Ben in tow. She has begged to be part of a murder investigation so she can bury herself in work rather than taking the time to grieve and figure out how to handle the next stage of her life - she now has serious family responsibilities she can no longer avoid. But Gemma also has ghosts she must lay to rest.Gemma searches for answers, while navigating her son's grief and trying to overcome the hostility of her new colleagues. As the mystery deepens and old tensions and secrets come to light, Gemma is increasingly haunted by a similar missing persons case she worked on not long before. A case that ended in tragedy and made her question her instincts as a cop. Can she trust herself again? ...Show more

Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald

$19.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgow's worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he's published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men's Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary's care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam's daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice ... with devastating consequences. A heart-pounding, relentless and chilling psychological thriller, rich with deliciously dark and unapologetic humour, Worst Case Scenario is also a perceptive, tragic and hugely relevant book by one of the most exciting names in crime fiction. ...Show more

Dead Man Switch (#1 Billy Walker Mystery) by Tara Moss

$32.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction | Series: A\Billie Walker Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: 2 Crime

Lapse by Sarah Thornton

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction

Former corporate lawyer Clementine Jones is living in self-imposed exile, passing the time by coaching a country-league footy club and trying to forget the past. Now the team is winning, and the pressure is on to take the Cats to their first grand final in over fifty years. When her star player, Clancy Kennedy, quits on the eve of the finals, something doesn't stack up. Clem's a tough negotiator, used to getting her own way--but when she sets out to win Clancy back, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in danger.Solving the mystery could end in Clementine's worst nightmare--the exposure of her shameful secret--but only if she survives to tell the tale. A terrific Australian crime novel!   ...Show more

Many Rivers to Cross (#26 DCI Banks) by Peter Robinson

$32.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

Peter Robinson a "master of the police procedural" (Mail on Sunday) returns with the twenty-sixth instalment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series.   A skinny young boy is found dead--his body carelessly stuffed into a wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was his body discarded, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the Eastvale Estate has seen him before. As the local press seize upon an illegal immigrant angle, and the national media cover the story of another stabbing, there is a less newsworthy death: a middle-aged heroin addict found dead of an overdose in another estate, scheduled for redevelopment. Banks finds the threads of each case seem to be connected to the other, and to the dark side of organized crime in Eastvale. Does another thread link to his friend Zelda, who is coming to terms with her own dark past? The truth may be more complex--or much simpler--than it seems . . . ...Show more

River of Salt by Dave Warner

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man - running a club called the Surf Shack, and playing nights there with his surf music band, The Twang. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel, a matchbook from the Surf Shack on her bedside table. When Blake's friend is arrested for her murder and the local sergeant doesn't want to know, it becomes clear that it is up to Blake - a man who knows about cold-blooded killing - to protect his corner of paradise. Dave Warner takes Australian crime writing to the next level.  ...Show more