DANCING WITH THE ENEMY
June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.’ So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson when the Channel Islands are invaded by the Germans.
Sisters In Crime
RELEASE
en years ago, sixteen-year-old Gemma Toombs was kidnapped from Bangkok Airport by an infatuated drifter who took her to a secret den in the Australian desert. What is the legacy of this coercive relationship? Who holds the cards now?
COLD, COLD BONES
When mother and daughter meet at Tempe Brennan’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.
THE KILLING CODE
A young codebreaker at Arlington Hall – the secret WWII Signals Intelligence unit in Washington DC – joins forces with other female codebreakers to hunt a murderer who is killing US government girls.
THE LIARS
A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. Who can we trust?
DIRT TOWN
Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible.
Lewis also knows but can’t reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret.
Five days later, Esther’s buried body is discovered.
DEADLY INTENT
Edmund Stout awoke into darkness. He was lying on his back in some sort of box made of rough-hewn timber, his head wedged into a corner, chin on chest, knees drawn up. His first thought was that he’d been buried alive.
THE RHYNIE POISONING CASE
The Rhynie Poisoning Case examines the post-World War One murder of Muriel Lee and three of her children by her husband Alexander Lee. Lee was convicted of the poisoning and was subsequently hanged.
CLARKE
On a hot morning in 1991 in the regional town of Clarke, Barney Clarke (no relation) is woken by the unexpected arrival of many policemen: they are going to search his backyard for the body of a missing woman.
Next door, Leonie Wallace and little Joe watch the police cars through their kitchen window. Leonie has been waiting six years for this day. She is certain that her friend Ginny Lawson is buried in that backyard.
HIDEOUT
Vega ignored his tone and continued: ‘I don’t think you’re angry because I haven’t called you. I think you’re angry because I almost got you killed three times.‘