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The Bluffs
Kyle Perry
If an unpublished author told you they were attempting to write a crime thriller that called on just about every convention in the genre's playbook ...
Steve Smith's Men
Geoff Lemon
A polished account of Australian cricket's fall into a cheating scandal, steeped with emotionally intelligent insights and beautiful prose.
Kill Shot
Garry Disher
He's the bad guy that's easy to root for - a master thief with his eyes on the liquid assets of a notorious corporate crook. Wyatt is back, and he was never here.
The Everlasting Sunday
Robert Lukins
A tensely atmospheric debut set in a deep English winter. Explores the edge of adolescence, survival and friendship.
Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
A powerful piece of speculative fiction imbued with empathy and a twist that will have your jaw on the floor.
And Fire Came Down
Emma Viskic
The dark and intense follow-up to one hell of a debut. ‘A wasteland of shattered people’ and some killer dialogue set in the oppressive heat of an Australian summer.
The Thirst
Jo Nesbø
Nesbø is back to his best with a gripping and dark Harry Hole thriller. Tinder-users beware, your date may have a thirst for blood.
Wimmera
Mark Brandi
Top-notch Aussie rural literary noir. A deeply unsettling exploration of boyhood and the rippling damage of child sexual assault.
Crimson Lake
Candice Fox
Where True Detective meets the Sunshine Coast. A tightly-written thriller in a sinister, humid setting.
Land of Hidden Fires
Kirk Kjeldsen
A quick and punchy thrill-ride through the snowy forests of occupied Norway.
The Road to Winter
Mark Smith
A compelling and intelligent story of survival in a bleak but beautiful Australian coastal setting.
The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke
A powerful memoir and important reflection on Australia’s shameful and deeply ingrained racism.
Slaughter Park
Barry Maitland
A stunning conclusion to the Belltree Trilogy’s overarching mystery, an insightful comment on Australian history, past and present.
The Scholl Case
Anja Reich-Osang
A woman is brutally murdered and buried in the woods. Her husband - the former Mayor of their town - is the prime suspect. The Scholl Case is a true story about a marriage, about a small town, about sex and politics.
Out of Bounds
Val McDermid
Val McDermid has always positioned her DCI Karen Pirie books as standalone. But how many standalones can you write until you’ve written a series? The answer is 4.
The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Jock Serong
South Africa are 6/194 at stumps on Day 3 and I am wrecked by the brilliance of this book. If you have a crime-fiction loving cricket fan in the family, consider your Christmas shopping sorted.
Clancy of the Undertow
Christopher Currie
Clancy is a misfit who doesn’t even fit with the misfits - she’s sixteen and just trying to work out who the hell she is when her dad is involved in an accident that kills two local teenagers, her girl-crush finally notices that she exists, and new-girl Nancy walks into her life.
The Girls Next Door
Mel Sherratt
Are a series of assaults and the kidnapping of DS Berrisford's niece related, or this something altogether more sinister than it first appears?
The Dying Detective
Leif G.W. Persson
Just what do you do to a man who has raped and murdered a young girl when the criminal justice system has no remedy to offer? A modern Scandi-crime take on Arthur Conan Doyle.
Black Teeth
Zane Lovitt
A well-paced and thoroughly enjoyable piece of Australian-noir. Draws on the 'feel' of Jim Thompson et al. without falling into age-old American noir tropes.
New Yorked
Rob Hart
Ashley McKenna, native New Yorker, does favours; sometimes for money, sometimes for whiskey, but always with his trusty steel umbrella in close reach. When the woman Ash loves leaves him a desperate voicemail - a message he hears the morning after she’s murdered - he grips that umbrella and hunts for her killer.
Dark Waters
Deborah Sheldon
Brendan Reilly emerges from the murky depths of a dam a changed man, caught between two worlds. In one he’s a respected patch member of the Overlords bikie gang; the other, a scumbag ex-husband and estranged father.
