Best Australian Detective Novels - April 2024

Big Little Lies

• ASIN: B00HDMMISA
• ASIN: B00HDMMISA
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Dry: A Novel

• ASIN: B01BSN15F6
• ASIN: B01BSN15F6
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been sh... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BKRGQTY
• ASIN: B07BKRGQTY
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Lost Man

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

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: B00LD1S3PY
• ASIN: B00LD1S3PY
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Secret Keeper: A Novel

• ASIN: B007EECSFA
• ASIN: B007EECSFA
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

• ASIN: B001NLKWLW
• ASIN: B001NLKWLW
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Force of Nature: A Novel

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

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

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

Witches' Brew (Witch Cozy Mystery) (Witches and Wine Book 1)

A witch cozy mysteryWitches and Wine, Book ONE.Pepper Jasper moves from Sydney to the cozy town of Lighthouse Bay, answering a desperate plea from her aunts to help with their failing Bed and Breakfast business. She discovers her aunts are more eccentric than she remembered, the Bed and Breakfast does not serve breakfast, and the cottages for lease have strange themes. And what’s more, within minutes of her arrival, she stumbles across a dead body. Pepper soon has her hands full, contending with a murder mystery, irritating guests including the enigmatic Lucas O’Callaghan who is convinced... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N2AGLI8
• ASIN: B01N2AGLI8
• Manufacturer: Best Cosy Books

A Serpent's Tooth: A Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries Book 9)

“It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson’s lean and leathery mysteries.”  —The New York Times Book ReviewThe ninth Longmire book from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of WolvesIt’s homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon “lost boy” forced off his compound for rebellious behavior, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Victoria Moretti, and Henry Standing Bear search for the boy’s mother and find themselves on a hig... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00AFPVQQW
• ASIN: B00AFPVQQW
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Rain Dogs: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

"2017 Edgar Award Winner" (best paperback original)"It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?   When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are just a few things that bother Duffy enough to keep the case file open. Which is how he finds out that she was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.   An... [Read More]

• ASIN: 163388130X
• ASIN: 163388130X
• ISBN: 163388130X
• Brand: Seventh Street Books
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Crimson Lake: A Novel

• ASIN: B071YYRPJH
• ASIN: B071YYRPJH
• Manufacturer: Forge Books

Lexicon: A Novel

Stick and stones break bones. Words kill.They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.They'll live to regret it.They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.There's a word, they say. A word that kills.And they want it back . . . “Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

• ASIN: 0143125427
• ASIN: 0143125427
• ISBN: 0143125427
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Peril at End House: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 8)

• ASIN: B000FC1PF2
• ASIN: B000FC1PF2
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

The Neighbor : A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

When a young wife and mother disappears from her suburban home, it's not long before the cops have their first suspect: the missing woman's husband, whose behavior is distinctly

• UPC: 13009129
• Rating: 4.07

Fear Nothing : A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Detective D

• UPC: 38412179
• Rating: 4.348

Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: four members of a family have been brutally murdered. Veteran police detective D.D. Warren is certain of only

• UPC: 933357041
• Rating: 4.281

Hide : A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge, from Gardner's "New York Times" bestseller "Alone," returns. While on the trail of a twisted serial killer, Dodge must track down a woman from his past who may be

• UPC: 8300275
• Rating: 4.044

The Department of Sensitive Crimes : A Detective Varg Novel

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.

• UPC: 757130824
• Rating: 3.0

City of Saviors : A Detective Elouise Norton Novel

"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child"Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will

• UPC: 55520742
• Rating: 3.5

Melissa Craig Mystery: Murder on the Clifftops: An Utterly Addictive Cozy Mystery Novel (Paperback)

French cheese, fine wine and... a mystifying murder? A delightful afternoon stroll turns to disaster when the guests of an artists' retreat in the French mountains spot the body of a man at the bottom

• UPC: 533493906
• Rating: 3.0

The Devotion of Suspect X : A Detective Galileo Novel

The first major English pubication of the award-winning work by one of Japan's best-loved and best-selling

• UPC: 17024781
• Rating: 3.85

Something Hidden: A Totally Unputdownable Murder Mystery Novel (Paperback)

Something Hidden: A Totally Unputdownable Murder Mystery

• UPC: 724640908

Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare - eBook

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Story of Hermione, in which the eponymous character grows rich from the all too convenient deaths of several relatives, has been called

• UPC: 595491556
• Rating: 3.0