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Clear to the Horizon
By Dave Warner. 1983
In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others…
are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case. Clear to the Horizon is a nail-biting Aussie-style thriller, based on one of the great unsolved crimes in Western Australia's recent history. Its twists and turns will keep you guessing to the end. Dave Warner's Before It Breaks (Fremantle Press) won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction in 2016. This novel brilliantly combines the sleuthing skills of two of Warner's best-known characters and looks at how unsolved crimes can continue to haunt communities long after the fact. The book references the Claremont serial killings, Western Australia's most notorious cold-case. It's a case that real-life investigators recently made a giant leap forward on: arresting a man for the murders of two women. Warner's work has strong support from newspapers like the Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald and Weekend Australian and reviews of his last book were syndicated to newspapers across the nation. Warner is a known musician with an existing fan base and is likely to feature on local NSW and WA radio.Riddle Gully Secrets
By Jen Banyard. 2016
Just when famed youth reporter Pollo di Nozi thinks she’ll never find another news story she stumbles upon not one,…
but two very surprising secrets. With hidden treasure, cunning crooks, mistaken identities and mysterious disappearances, unravelling them may be Pollo’s greatest challenge yet.Lily in the Mirror
By Paula Hayes. 2016
Lily loves all things dark and mysterious, so when she discovers a magic mirror in a locked room it's like…
a dream come true. Or is it ... Lily now has a new friend who desperately needs her help. But she's also got an older brother who really needs to get a life. Lily will require all eleven fingers, plus a hefty slice of Grandad's chocolate ganache cake, to fix a long-forgotten tragedy that's very close to home.Reunion at Cardwell Ranch & The Masked Man
By B. J. Daniels. 2016
New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels continues her acclaimed Cardwell Ranch series! The last of his clan to come…
home to Big Sky, Montana, Laramie Cardwell wasn't planning to spend the holidays chasing an elusive cat burglar. He's stunned to discover that the masked, black-clad figure he tackles to the snowy ground is a woman. After a distracting and sizzling kiss, she flees Laramie, who's knocked senseless by the culprit. Even though he manages to hold on to the stash in the melee, the sexy thief single-handedly steals Laramie's heart! Now he'll move any mountain to capture the mystery woman whose kiss still smolders on his lips. In reader favorite The Masked Man, a fling with a handsome stranger has Jill Lawson now being framed for murder. Establishing her innocence could be harder than Jill imagined, especially when she is distracted by a mystery man's kisses-kisses suspiciously similar to investigator Mac Cooper's. But was Mac set up, just as Jill was? In a race against time and a cunning adversary, can Mac and Jill unmask the real killer before it is too late?The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Vs. Dracula
By Titan Books. 2012
After a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers -- only the dead captain, drained…
of blood -- a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one man can save the city: the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes.Candy Man
By John Holt, Jennifer Moesa. 2015
Ik heet Daniels, Jack Daniels, net zoals de whisky. Ik ben een privédetective. En ik kan het niet helpen om…
mijn neus in andermans zaken te steken. Het is wat ik doe. Het went. Het wordt bijna een manier van leven. Na een tijdje voelt het natuurlijk aan, automatisch, net als ademhalen, of eten, hoewel lang niet zo plezierig. Het is een gewoonte waar ik niet mee kan stoppen. Ik kan het niet helpen. Maar soms kan het u in problemen brengen.....City of Light: The city rocks while heads will roll (Dave Warner crime)
By Dave Warner. 1995
Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of making the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible…
phone call that signals the beginning of a series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake the city to its foundations ... ‘Gruesome' has taken another victim and the whole population is riveted by the emergence of the dark side of the City of Light.Bad Seed (Cato Kwong)
By Alan Carter. 2015
When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to…
recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful. The killer is elusive and brutal, and the investigation takes Cato to Shanghai. In a world of spoiled rich kids and cyber dragons, Cato is about to discover a whole lot more about the Chinese acquisition of Australian land—about those who play the game and those who die trying.White Knuckle Ride
By Alan Carter. 2011
Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Jon Doust, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner,…
and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching crime fiction from some of Australia's finest writers.Black Light
By K. A. Bedford. 2015
This charmingly spooky novel is set in Pelican River, southwest of Perth, in the 1920s. With all the charm and…
coziness of a BBC TV period drama, the story plays out in the aftermath of the First World War. It is centered around the eccentric and newly widowed Ruth, her butler Rutherford, and her aunt Julia, together with Ruth's inventor neighbor Gordon and his raft of hounds, and the elusive and sinister demon, Mr. Nor. Humor abounds and the characters explore the new ideas in science and physics of the era, as well as the development of science fiction itself, with cameos by the likes of Mr. H. G. Wells. This supernatural crime mystery also bears the traces of the effect of war on a nation and its people.Before It Breaks
By Dave Warner. 2015
Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome, the tropical town where he grew up, licking his wounds from a…
busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town, inexperienced cops. But stagnation and lethargy soon give way to a case with urgent purpose. On the edge of the desert, a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. And he is only the first. The connection between the victims is elusive, but Clement must pursue it as a decades-old mystery begins to unravel and a monster cyclone brews on the horizon.Sweet One
By Peter Docker. 2014
When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter…
of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of Western Australia to cover his death. But Izzy is about to learn that for every action there is an equal and bloody reaction. On the trail of the vigilantes, she finds herself embedded in a secret war that is finally, irrevocably, going to explode to the surface.Cover Your Assets (Tucker Sinclair #2)
By Patricia Smiley. 2005
Tucker Sinclair's life has returned to normal after her first misadventure with murder in FALSE PROFITS. But that's about to…
change when her old college flame, Evan Brice, strolls back into her life after a 10-year estrangement that began when he dumped Tucker to marry her closest friend. Evan is now a successful Hollywood agent who has acquired many mistresses and a love affair with drugs. When Evan is found brutally murdered, the police quickly close in on the victim's widow, who turns to ex-best friend Tucker for help. Soon, Tucker runs afoul of the detective in charge of the case and finds herself at odds with a biker gang and a narcissistic soap opera star in a race to sort the innocent from the guilty.Mystery at Riddle Gully
By Jen Banyard. 2012
Pollo di Nozi, a reporter-in-training, has a nose for news. Weird things are happening in Riddle Gully and Pollo smells…
a major scoop. With Shorn Connery, her sheepish sidekick, Pollo is determined to track down the truth. But is Will, the new boy in town, conspiring with the pushy mayor, the Graffiti Kid, and a strange Transylvanian to send her sniffing up the wrong trail? Suspensful and humerous, this book unravels the mysteries of Riddle Gully.How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety…
deposit boxes and 12 hostages being follow by the San Francisco Police vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge? The police are stumped so a specialist in impossible crimes, Captain Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Holmes, is sent to San Francisco to solve the crime. With the clock ticking, Noonan will have to unravel how the bus was able to disappear - and why there are still hostages if the money has already been stolen and the bank robbers have vanished. Ride along with Captain Heinz Noonan, the nation's foremost impossible crime sleuth, and see if you can solve the crime as fast as he does!Nasty Girls: Femme Fatale, The Crack Cocaine Diet, Honor Bar, Dear Penthouse Forum
By Laura Lippman. 2006
Meet some of the most dangerous women master of psychological suspense Laura Lippman has ever created in works so dark…
that her husband observed that most of her short stories center on betrayals between men and women. These stories include a senior citizen porn star (“Femme Fatale”); two twenty-somethings deranged by calorie deprivation (“The Crack Cocaine Diet”); a petulant tourist deceived by love in Dublin (“Honor Bar”); and a mysterious Good Samaritan-hobbyist (“Dear Penthouse Forum” (A First Draft)). Available singly or as a collection.The Reborn: Rhona Macleod Book 7
By Lin Anderson. 2010
The clown suddenly appeared beside a group of kids at the candy floss van, bringing Kira to an abrupt halt.…
Then it began. The rapid heartbeat, the burst of perspiration, the gasping breath. The baby lurched inside her, as though sharing her panic. When the body of a pregnant teenager is found in a Hall of Mirrors with the full-term foetus surgically removed, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to assist the police. Suspicion falls on Jeff Coulter, a psychotic inmate at a nearby hospital whose hobby is making Reborns - chillingly realistic baby dolls intended for bereaved parents or those unable to conceive. But how could he have orchestrated the murder from a secure mental facility?The investigation leads to a group of teenage girls who seem to have all got pregnant at the same time. Then a Reborn doll is discovered near the crime scene and a second girl from the group is found dead. Creepy, compelling and heart-stoppingly tense, THE REBORN is Lin Anderson's most powerful novel yet.Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (Matthew Hope #12)
By Ed Mcbain. 1996
What's cuddly, cute, and the object of a high-stakes court battle? It's Gladly, the cross-eyed teddy bear brainchild of slightly…
cross-eyed beauty Lainie Cummins, Matthew Hope's client and the litigant in a trademark dispute with toy company tycoons. Matthew is certain he can win the case--until someone murders one of the key players. Popular mystery writer Ed McBain is back with his latest hero, Matthew Hope.In Too Deep: A gripping, page-turning crime thriller
By Bea Davenport. 2013
'A tense and suspenseful debut.' --Margaret Murphy...The window's so small I can't see what happens next. But what I do…
know is that Kim is dead. And I know this, too that I helped to kill her. Kim, my lovely, only, best friend.Five years ago Maura fled life in Dowerby and took on a new identity, desperately trying to piece her life back together and escape the dark clouds that plagued her past. But then a reporter tracks her down, and persuades her to tell her story, putting her own life in danger once again.Layer upon layer of violence and deceit make up the full picture for Maura to see and the reporter to reveal. Hidden secrets are uncovered that have been left to settle, for far too long. But in life some things can't be left unsaid, and eventually the truth will out. Whatever the consequences.A gripping thriller perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Mark Edwards and B A ParisForcing Amaryllis
By Louise Ure. 2005
From a gripping new author comes the haunting story of Calla Gentry, a trial consultant determined to discover the truth…
about her sister's brutal rape. A trial consultant in Tucson, Arizona, Calla Gentry devotes her time and energy to victims in civil cases rather than criminal trials. The rape and near murder of her sister Amaryllis has done much more than affect Calla's career; she hides behind locked doors and jumps at shadows, a veritable victim by proxy after Amaryllis is left in a coma following a failed suicide attempt.When Calla is assigned against her will to the trial of Raymond Cates, a wealthy landowner's son accused of rape and first degree murder, she cannot help but note the parallels between the crime he stands accused of and her sister's assault. Determined to uncover the truth, Calla begins an investigation of Cates and the events of that fateful night. But things are seldom what they seem-and her investigation leads Calla to buried lies and a whole new world of violent rage.