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Unnatural exposure (Kay Scarpetta #8)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1997
Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a landfill,…
her body dismembered in the same expert way she'd seen before. And while Scarpetta is investigating, the bold killer contacts her through the Internet, inviting her to download the police photos, and signs off with the chilling name, deadoc. When Scarpetta and her niece discover that the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she died, she realizes that they're up against a killer with access to an incredible arsenal of deadly force -- and now it's directed at her!Blow fly (Kay Scarpetta #12)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2003
Kay Scarpetta's work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end. Fearing that she is about to be…
fired by the governor, and hounded in the media for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief, Scarpetta packs up her belongings and sets out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. However, Scarpetta is soon deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her...Medea's curse (Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist #1)
By Anne Buist. 2015
Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She…
rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn’t want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication.Now she’s being stalked. Anonymous notes, threats, strangers loitering outside her house. A hostile former patient? Or someone connected with a current case? Georgia Latimer - charged with killing her three children. Travis Hardy - deadbeat father of another murdered child, with a second daughter now missing. Maybe the harrassment has something to do with Crown Prosecutor Liam O'Shea - drop-dead sexy, married and trouble in all kinds of ways. Natalie doesn’t know. Question is, will she find out before it’s too late?Hindsight (Cass Lehman #1)
By Melanie Casey. 2013
Cass Lehman has a terrifying 'gift'...The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with…
the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past...but not just any past; she sees death. For years she's hidden herself away in her family home. Now, desperate for a better life, she ventures into sleepy Jewel Bay, only to stumble upon murder and mayhem and a killer at large who's long been lurking in their midst. Taking a chance, Cass volunteers to assist Detective Ed Dyson with the investigation. Will Cass be able to save the latest victim - and herself?Craven (Cass Lehman #2)
By Melanie Casey. 2014
A reluctant psychic, a troubled detective, and a deeply twisted serial killer. Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to…
leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his first victim. With a place of her own and a new job, things are looking up for Cass. But just as she starts to feel settled, Cass is targeted by a deranged stalker. Are the personal attacks linked to a string of unsettling deaths that have left the police stumped? Her ‘gift’ is called on yet again by the one man she vowed she would never contact. Cass and police Detective Ed Dyson are thrown back into each other’s lives but can they overcome their feelings to put an end to the terror? Will her experiences of death reveal the mind of the killer - or is there no such thing as a happy ending?Soon
By Lois Murphy. 2017
An almost deserted town in the middle of nowhere, Nebulah’s days of mining and farming prosperity - if they ever…
truly existed - are long gone. These days even the name on the road sign into town has been removed. Yet for Pete, an ex-policeman, Milly, Li and a small band of others, it’s the only place they have ever felt at home. One winter solstice, a strange residual and mysterious mist arrives, that makes even birds disappear. It is a real and potent force, yet also strangely emblematic of the complacency and unease that afflicts so many of our small towns, and the country that Murphy knows so well. Partly inspired by the true story of Wittenoom, the ill-fated West Australia asbestos town, Soon is the story of the death of a haunted town, and the plight of the people who either won’t, or simply can’t, abandon all they have ever had.Inspector Anders and the blood vendetta (Inspector Anders #3)
By Marshall Browne. 2006
It's autumn in the E.U. and the temperature is falling in more ways than one when Inspector Anders is ordered…
back to Italy. Two right-wing politicians have been murdered with an identical M.O. The Government is screaming: "terrorists." It's a pre-election year and the Prime Minister wants the bemedalled terrorist-hunter on the case. But the Milan cops are hardly welcoming, and the one-legged Anders is unhappy to return. Only the Mafia is delighted. But is it terrorists? Doggedly, Anders begins to peel back layers of falsity, as further high-level killings shock the nation. Swinging between Milan and Verona, locked into one of his exotic hunches, Anders agonises whether he is being sidetracked. The Honoured Society has sworn to kill him on Italian soil, and Anders' greatest challenge is to stay alive.The ghost
By Robert Harris. 2007
Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving - and most controversial - prime minister of the last half century, whose career…
ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in wintry Martha's Vineyard to finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive memoir, for which he accepted one of history's largest cash advances. But the project runs aground when his ghost-writer mysteriously disappears and later washes up, dead, on the island's deserted shore. Lang's new ghost-writer cynical, mercenary, and quick with a line of deadpan humour - is accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities. He flies in to Lang's luxurious estate, but it doesn't take him long to realize he has made a fatal error in judgment. The state of affairs is grim enough when the ghost begins to unearth the bone-chilling circumstances of his predecessor's death. And before long, he discovers that the ex-prime minister is not just a charismatic politician who made a few mistakes. He's a dark, tortured man with haunting secrets in his past; secrets with the power to alter world politics. Secrets with the power to kill.Paving the new road (Rowland Sinclair #4)
By Sulari Gentill. 2012
It's 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Führer, is…
on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not undefended. Old enemies have united to undermine Campbell's ambitions. The clandestine armies of the Establishment have once again mobilised to thwart any friendship with the Third Reich. But when their man in Munich is killed, desperate measures are necessary. Now Rowland Sinclair must travel to Germany to defend Australian democracy from the relentless march of Fascism. Amidst the goosestepping euphoria of a rising Nazi movement, Rowland encounters those who will change the course of history. In a world of spies, murderers and despotic madmen, he can trust no-one but an artist, a poet and a brazen sculptress.A few right thinking men (Rowland Sinclair #1)
By Sulari Gentill. 2010
In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has…
a talent for scandal. Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world... of wealth, culture & impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions & friends...a poet, a painter & a brazen sculptress. Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics... until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary & treasonous conspiracy.Harry Curry: the murder book (Harry Curry #2)
By Stuart Littlemore. 2012
The renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one…
of them in defence of clients charged with murder. Meet the multiple murderer seeking a discounted sentence because he confesses to killings about which the police are clueless. Pity the fisherman who hated the sea, driven to let loose at his landlord with a rifle, plugging him ten times. Throughout these cases and more, the Curry-Engineer relationship waxes and wanes: Harry sells his Erskineville terrace and retreats to a farm on the Far South Coast; Arabella is showered with high-paying civil work and looks set for a life on the District Court bench. Harry's visits to Sydney are few and far between, and Ms Engineer begins to find excuses not to catch the little plane down to Merimbula ...Is it Harry's fate to die an eccentric gentleman farmer? Will Arabella decamp with a suitable Indian boy? Can the pair - ided and abetted by faithful solicitor David Surrey - rediscover the spark that brought them together?The old school (Ned Kelly #1)
By P. M Newton. 2010
Sydney, 1992. Nhu 'Ned' Kelly is a young detective making her way in what was, until recently, the best police…
force money could buy. Now ICAC has the infamous Roger Rogerson in the spotlight, and the old ways are out. Ned's sex and background still make her an outsider in the force, but Sydney is changing, expanding, modernising, and so is the Job.When two bodies are found in the foundations of an old building in Sydney's west, Ned is drawn into the city's past: old rivalries, old secrets and old wrongs. As she works to discover who the bones belong to - and who dumped them there - she begins to uncover secrets that threaten to expose not only the rotten core of the police force, but also the dark mysteries of her own family.Dog soldiers
By Robert Stone. 1974
Converse, a civilian serving in Vietnam plans to send home to his wife a load of heroin. Watching greedily is…
a narcotics agent who wants the dope. What follows is a sequence of horror which drags them into uncontrollable forces.Old scores (Frank Swann #3)
By David Whish-Wilson. 2016
It'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 than his job to find out why.Zero at the bone (Frank Swann #2)
By David Whish-Wilson. 2013
For 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 commemmorate a century and a half since colonisation. But behind the festivities a new kind of land grab is going on, this time for mining leases. The price of gold is up, and few are incorruptible before its lure. When Swann is hired to probe the suicide of a well-regarded geologist, he’s drawn into a mire of vice and fraud that has at its heart a lust for wealth that verges on a disease.Line of sight (Frank Swann #1)
By David Whish-Wilson. 2010
The murder of a brothel madam on a city golf course should be a routine police inquiry. But there's barely…
any investigation at all, and Superintendent Frank Swann thinks he knows why. It's the brave or the foolish who accuse their fellow cops of corruption, and those Swann points the finger at have mates in nearly every stronghold of power in Western Australia - big business, organised crime, the government. The local detectives have always been bent, but heroin is the new drug in town and big money is finding its way into some very respectable hands. Swann might have won the first round by forcing a royal commission, but the judge is an ailing retiree who seems powerless. More alarming still, Swann's teenage daughter has disappeared. And the word on the streets is he's a dead man walking...Miles off course (Rowland Sinclair #3)
By Sulari Gentill. 2012
In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic - Medlow…
Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed. And then Harry Simpson vanishes. Croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned for the High Country where Rowland hunts for Simpson with a determination that is as mysterious as the disappearance itself. Stockmen, gangsters and a belligerent writer all gather to the fray, as the investigation becomes embroiled with a much darker consipiracy.A murder unmentioned (Rowland Sinclair #6)
By Sulari Gentill. 2014
The black sheep of a wealthy 1930s grazier dynasty, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair often takes matters into his own hands.…
When the matter is murder, there are consequences. For nearly fourteen years, Rowland has tried to forget, but now the past has returned. A newly-discovered gun casts light on a family secret long kept... a murder the Sinclairs would prefer stayed unsolved. As old wounds tear open, the dogged loyalty of Rowland's inappropriate companions is all that stands between him and the consequences of a brutal murder... one he simply failed to mention.Give the Devil his due (Rowland Sinclair #7)
By Sulari Gentill. 2015
When Rowland Sinclair is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the…
lives it has claimed, he agrees without caution or reserve.But then people start to die.The body of a journalist covering the race is found in a House of Horrors, an English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations is killed on the race track. and it seems that someone has Rowland in their sights. A strange young reporter preoccupied with black magic, a mysterious vagabond, an up-and-coming actor by the name of Flynn, and ruthless bookmakers all add mayhem to the mix. With danger presenting at every turn, and the brakes long since disengaged, Rowland Sinclair hurtles towards disaster with an artist, a poet and brazen sculptress along for the ride.A decline in prophets (Rowland Sinclair #2)
By Sulari Gentill. 2011
In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt.…
Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania's chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits.The elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension, but civility prevails - until people start to die. Then things get a bit awkward. And Rowland finds himself unwittingly in the centre of it all.