Best Australian Crime Novels - April 2024

West Cork

This much we do know: Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken body discovered at the edge of her property near the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland. The rest remains a mystery. Gripping, yet ever elusive, join the real-life hunt for answers in the year's first not-to-be-missed, true-crime series. Investigative journalist Sam Bungey and documentarian Jennifer Forde guide listeners through the brutal, unsolved murder and the tangled web of its investigation, while introducing an intricate cast of characters, a provocative prime suspect, and a recoveri... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0792BWQWT
• ASIN: B0792BWQWT
• Manufacturer: Audible Originals

Big Little Lies

DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274861
• ASIN: 0425274861
• ISBN: 0425274861
• Brand: Moriarty Liane
• Manufacturer: Berkley

ONE LAST KILL: A fast paced, action packed detective mystery, a gripping serial killer crime thriller with a twist. (The Far South Series Book 1)

IF YOU HURT SOMEONE BAD ENOUGH THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN’T MAKE THEM DO.Bobby Ress is a cop with a simple life.He believes in making a difference.He loves his wife and his daughter.He has a place in the world.Then people start dying, a lot of them, in horrible ways. It's a case like no other. And step by gruesome step the simple, true things Bobby knew to be right and good begin to make less and less sense. Because Bobby is learning about pain. He doesn't like to admit it. He doesn't like to know, but he's slowly realizing: If you hurt someone bad enough for long enough then there's nothing,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01IED3FWO
• ASIN: B01IED3FWO
• Manufacturer: Finn Bell

The Husband's Secret

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES.   One of the Best Books of the Year—Entertainment Weekly One of the Top Ten Books of the Year—People   At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read…   My darling Cecilia, If you’re reading this, then I’ve died…   Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not only the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451490045
• ASIN: 0451490045
• ISBN: 0451490045
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Shantaram: A Novel

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prosti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312330537
• ASIN: 0312330537
• ISBN: 0312330537
• Brand: Gregory David Roberts
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Lake House: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Keeper comes a “moody, suspenseful page-turner” (People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets.Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. He is never found, and the family is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451649355
• ASIN: 1451649355
• ISBN: 1451649355
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

The Dry: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” ―The New York Times“One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read… Every word is near perfect.” ―David BaldacciA small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250105625
• ASIN: 1250105625
• ISBN: 1250105625
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Lost Man

• ASIN: B07FM4HQ9N
• ASIN: B07FM4HQ9N
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Bat: A Harry Hole Novel (1) (Harry Hole Series)

• ASIN: B00BH0VSM6
• ASIN: B00BH0VSM6
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Force of Nature: A Novel

• ASIN: B073TSQ1JF
• ASIN: B073TSQ1JF
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Fifth Letter

Nicola Moriarty makes her US debut with this stunning page-turner for fans of Jojo Moyes, Emily Griffin, Kate Morton, and Jessica Knoll, about four best friends on a relaxing vacation that turns devastating when old secrets are revealed, long-held grudges surface, and a shattering betrayal is discovered that shakes the foundation of their lives. Best friends from high school, Joni, Deb, Eden, and Trina had always looked forward to the vacations they spent together. But the demands of careers, husbands, and babies gradually pulled them apart, and now their annual getaways may be a thing of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GONFIVM
• ASIN: B01GONFIVM
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Woman In the Dark: (A Psychological Suspense Novel) (Alexandra Mallory Book 7)

Desire and death await in the dark.The murder next door is unsolved.But Alex knows she’s covered her tracks.Now, her life is complicated by the discovery of a woman’s body closer to home. As detectives seek the identity of the dead woman and the cause of her death, suspicion falls on Sean and the others.When Alex takes a huge risk with the fledgling company’s social media site, and the detectives begin probing deeper, tension reaches its breaking point.With detectives still trying to solve the murder next door and a new team focused on this case, the threat to Alex pushes her to go furth... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077YXS7SG
• ASIN: B077YXS7SG
• Manufacturer: D2C Perspectives

The House at Riverton: A Novel

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Forgotten Garden comes a gorgeous novel set in England between World War I and World war II. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, it is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades.Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416550534
• UPC: 884176105666
• ASIN: 1416550534
• ISBN: 1416550534
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel

“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375724672
• ASIN: 0375724672
• ISBN: 0375724672
• Brand: Vintage Books USA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel

“A book you won’t be able to put down, although you may occasionally want to hide your eyes” (Stephen King) from internationally bestselling author Michael Robotham, a psychological thriller about an unlikely friendship between two pregnant women that asks: how far would you go to create the perfect family?Agatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb, counting down the days until her baby is due. As the hours of her shifts creep by in increasing discomfort, the one thing she looks forward to at work is catching a glimpse of Meghan, t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N9LH66L
• ASIN: B01N9LH66L
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 789038058
• Rating: 3.5

The Mammoth Book Best International Crime - eBook

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers.They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir

• UPC: 317126132
• Rating: 5.0

Bloody Scotland : New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

Twelve of Scotland's most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country's architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and

• UPC: 295463383
• Rating: 5.0

Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers - eBook

Twelve of Scotland’s most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country’s architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty

• UPC: 929869163
• Rating: 5.0

The Couple Next Door : A Novel

"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016"--Title page

• UPC: 55548603
• Rating: 3.882

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps : The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s

Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective Fiction Weekly." These are the classic tales that created the genre

• UPC: 5620628
• Rating: 3.5

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 (Volume 2) - eBook

Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have compiled 32 fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.The contents arePeter M Ball "Briar Day" (Moonlight Tuber)Lee Battersby "Europe After The

• UPC: 186788688

The Best Australian Stories 2015 - eBook

‘Some readers are drawn to the promise inherent in a novel, and it’s true that the longer form can offer a slow and seductive immersion, but the short story offers pleasure of another kind –

• UPC: 586796940

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (volume 3) - eBook

The third annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers in 2012. Over 140,000 words of fiction from some of the genre's best and most awarded

• UPC: 341578120

The Best Australian Stories 2012 - eBook

These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next. —Sonya Hartnett The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country’s premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees

• UPC: 280098367