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Still murder
By Finola Moorhead. 1990
In love and in war there is killing, but is it still murder? A nosy nun discovers a body in…
a park. There is an immediate police cover-up. A Vietnam veteran spies on his old sweetheart. A man tries to rape his wife’s lover. A woman disappears from a loony bin with the help of a street-wise kid (who may be a figment of her imagination).What is Detective Senior Constable Margot Gorman to make of all this? 'Still murder' is a literary mystery which asks the big questions about men and women, sex and honour, mateship and madness.The quest for K (Mike Yeadings #4)
By Clare Curzon. 1986
Paula Musto had long promised herself a special holiday on Crete. Sharing her dead father's fascination with the Minoan past,…
she was forced back into the present by her package holiday companions, some of whom proved to be more than they at first seemed. And one at least was deadly. Unaware of their designs, she became dangerously enmeshed, and when their party returned to Heathrow Paula was not in it.The Oxford book of English detective stories
By Patricia Craig. 1992
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers thirty-three engrossing tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre…
to the present day. All the giants of English mystery are here - Sherlock Holmes, indefatigably tracking the details of the theft of Colonel Ross's prize horse, Silver Blaze, and the murder of its trainer. In "The Oracle of the Dog," G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown sits calmly in his study, solving at a distance the perplexing murder of Colonel Druce: was it the foreign Dr. Valentine, the foppish lawyer Traill, or Floyd, the exuberant American secretary? P.D. James sends Chief Superintendent Dalgliesh on the trail of a mysterious death from some seventy years before--a case with a final, darkly ironic twist. And Robert Barnard grimly lampoons English academe in "The Oxford Way of Death."Killed at the whim of a hat (Jimm Juree #1)
By Colin Cotterill. 2011
Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over…
until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.The people of this parish (People of this parish)
By Nicola Thorne. 1991
Eliza Woodville's aristocratic but impoverished family is trying to marry her off to a rich man, but she dreads this…
thought and is more attracted to local trader Ryder Yetman. Their passion changes forever the fortunes of their respective families. By Nicola Thorne writing as Rosemary EllerbeckHouse rules
By Jodi Picoult. 2010
Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself to others,…
and like many children with Asperger's, Jacob has an obsessive focus on one subject-in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do - and he's usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. Reluctance to make eye contact, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate gestures, all these can look a lot like guilt. Suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder. House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, and at the extremes of love and loyalty a family must call upon to help each other overcome impossible circumstances.The shape of dread (Sharon McCone ; #9)
By Marcia Muller. 1992
Sharon McCone, private eye, reopens a 2-year-old 'no-body' case - the murder of a rising comedienne. The trial is long…
cold, and a black youth faces the death penalty, but when McCone discovers a corpse, it is just the first of a series of revelations. Contains coarse language.The secret familiar: (confessions of an Inquisitor's spy)
By Catherine Jinks. 2006
Helie is a former spy of the famous fourteenth-century inquisitor Bernard Gui. Now he is living under an alias, trying…
to forget his past life of deception and intrigue. But a chance meeting once more brings him to the notice of the Inquisition; he is obliged to infiltrate a new heretical group, and find out what happened to the last spy sent to do so. Was he murdered or did he flee? Helie soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous conspiracy involving outlawed beliefs and human remains. The trouble is he no longer has the stomach for such an investigation - because his heart is beginning to betray him.Golden hope
By Johanna Nicholls. 2016
New year's Day 1901 sees the birth of Australia as a nation, eager to claim her place on the world…
stage. Clytie Hart, a daring equestrienne, travels with her mother and her circus family through the back roads of rural Victoria. Wildebrands Circus has seen better days and when they are persuaded to perform at Hufnung, a small, forgotten town in the Gold Triangle, Clytie's life is changed forever.The outlander
By Gil Adamson. 2008
In 1903, a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the icy western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Her name…
is Mary Boulton. Bloodhounds track her through the trees. She is nineteen years old. Half mad. Already a widow - by her own hand. Pursued by two relentless and vengeful brothers, Mary is forced to flee ever deeper into the mountains and away from civilisation, into the darkness of her own memory. Along the way, she meets a collection of rogues, guardian angels and eccentrics, who offer support, only to reveal that they too have their own demons raging inside. As Mary is plunged further away from civilisation, her path from retribution to redemption slowly unfurls.A fatal tide
By Steve Sailah. 2014
It is 1915 and Thomas Clare rues the day he and his best friend Snow went to war to solve…
the murder of his father. The only clues - a hidden wartime document and the imprint of an army boot on the victim’s face - have led the pair from the safety of Queensland to the blood-soaked hills of Gallipoli. Now not only are Thomas’s enemies on every side - from the Turkish troops bearing down on the Anzac lines, to the cold-blooded killer in his own trench - but as far away as London and Berlin. For, unbeknown to Thomas, the path to murder began thirteen years earlier in Africa with the execution of Breaker Morant - and a secret that could change the course of history...Why mermaids sing (Sebastian St. Cyr #3)
By C. S Harris. 2008
In 1811, murder has jarred London's elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places,…
their bodies mutilated and strange objects stuffed into their mouths. Although Sebastian St. Cyr is distracted by his seemingly doomed relationship with actress Kat Boleyn, the oddness of these murders nags at him-and he becomes determined to track down the assassin, even at the risk of his own life.What angels fear (Sebastian St. Cyr #1)
By C. S Harris. 2008
It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young…
woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A duelling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars. Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an agent during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian's heart years ago. In Sebastian's world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian's own salvation.When gods die (Sebastian St. Cyr #2)
By C. S Harris. 2008
In 1811, on a summer evening at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, the beautiful young wife of an ageing marquis…
is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent himself. Around her neck lies an ancient bluestone-and-silver necklace that legend credits with mysterious powers. Sebastian is lured into a dangerous investigation of the marchioness's death which appears to be mysteriously linked to the dark past of his own family. With the aid of his lover - Kat Boleyn, a beautiful actress hiding secrets of her own - and his new servant, Tom, a reformed pickpocket, Sebastian follows a twisted trail that leads from the luxurious wealth of Brighton palace to the most depraved London slums. And when one murder is followed by another, he confronts an insidious conspiracy that imperils those nearest to him even as it threatens to bring down the monarchy.True history of the Kelly gang
By Peter Carey. 2000
Exploration of the life and times of Australia's most enduring folk legend, Ned Kelly and his gang. Using Ned Kelly…
himself as the powerful narrator of this novel, written for a daughter he will never see, this is a heart-rending story of a young boy growing up in grinding poverty and of a young man defiantly resisting the wealth and power of those who wish to destroy him. It is a novel evocative of time and place and of the class-ridden society that was colonial Victoria in the 1870s.Falconer's crusade (Medieval Oxford Mystery series #1)
By Ian Morson. 1996
Set in Oxford University in 1264, this murder-mystery follows Regent Master William Falconer, a progressive teacher and amateur detective, as…
he tries to solve the murder of a local servant girl. His students are under suspicion and Falconer is drawn into a world of heresy, magic and violence.Silent on the moor (Lady Julia Grey #3)
By Deanna Raybourn. 2009
In Grimsgrave Hall, enigmatic Nicholas Brisbane has inherited a ruined estate, replete with uncanny tenants and one unwanted houseguest: Lady…
Julia Grey. Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the mouldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family: the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their secrets close. Lady Allenby and her daughters, dependent upon Brisbane and devastated by their fall in society, seem adrift on the moor winds, powerless to change their fortunes. But poison does not discriminate between classes...A mystery unfolds from the rotten heart of Grimsgrave, one Lady Julia may have to solve alone, as Brisbane appears inextricably tangled in its heinous twists and turns. But blood will out, and before spring touches the craggy northern landscape, Lady Julia will have uncovered a Gypsy witch, a dark rider and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil.The operators
By Barry Heard. 2019
Sophisticated computer hacking told the syndicate everything about Wally. Everything but why it would be a big mistake to kidnap…
him. Retired farmer Wally Flannagan is on a pilgrimage to Indonesia to witness the once-in-a-lifetime blooming of a rare flower. His holiday soon goes awry when he finds himself the target of kidnapping with the goal of extortion. Yet these plans, as alarming as they are for Wally, are little more than a diverting pastime for this criminal syndicate. They are organised, powerful, and ruthless. Yet there's one thing they don't know about Wally. He's a Pig. What's a Pig? Read on.Undara
By Annie Seaton. 2019
When entomologist Emlyn Rees arrives at Hidden Valley she wants nothing more than to escape her marriage breakdown by burying…
herself in the research team's hunt for new species of insects in the depts of the dramataic Undara lava tubes. However, little does she suspect she will be the key to solving a mystery that's more than one hundred years old. Travis Carlyle is initially resistant to letting some city folks tramp over his cattle station, but soon the researcher's findings and a growing friendship with Emlyn bring opportunities to turn around his struggling farm. With a broken marriage behind him and children to care for, Travis needs to plan for the future and this could be his family's best chance. But when things start going wrong for the farm and around the dig site, Emlyn and Travis are at a loss to understand why. Are they cursed with bad luck, or is there a more sinister force at play? Are the tall tales of enigmatic stockman Bluey turning true? As the unseen saboteur grows bolder, Emlyn and Travis are caught in a race against time to save the station... and their lives.Cry of the firebird
By T. M Clark. 2019
Consultant with the World Health Organisation, South African born Doctor Lily Winters has been in the thick of some of…
the worst humanitarian disasters across the globe. But when she's posted back to South Africa following the suspicious death of an ex-colleague, she faces the biggest medical mystery she's ever seen. The resettled Platfontein San People population is exhibiting a higher than average HIV epidemic, and their people are dying. The cases Lily takes over are baffling and despite her best efforts, the medicine doesn't seem to be helping. To save this unique community, Lily and a policeman from the Kalahari, Piet Kleinman, join forces to trace the origins of the epidemic and uncover the truth. Their search drags them into the dangerous world of a corrupt industry driven by profit while the authorities meant to protect their community turn a blind eye. In a race against time Lily and Piet will put not only their careers but their lives on the line..