The Unquiet Grave
The wonderful Dervla McTiernan takes us back to Ireland and reader-favourite Cormac Reilly in The Unquiet Grave. This is brilliantly plotted, fast-paced crime fiction with plenty of twists.
Ruth Wykes
Stillwater
The debut Australian crime novel everyone’s talking about.
A gritty Melbourne crime thriller where old secrets collide with deadly new threats. A must-read.
An Ill Wind
An absolute gem of a novel. Margaret Hickey tackles issues that matter with great skill and respect – and humour: climate change, financial hardship, homelessness and class divisions.
Melaleuca
One of the most beautiful crime novels you will read this year. Set in small-town Queensland, First Nations policewoman, Renee Taylor, is a wonderfully complex character. Honest. Raw. A must-read!
We’re Not Us Without You
High school friends Lani, Tinker, Maya and Stig were inseparable until an unthinkable act shook the group. Now in their thirties, three of the friends are still close while Stig has disappeared completely, unable to face what happened in high school. Is it too late to save Stig from himself? And will bringing him back into the fold threaten the silence that has been keeping them safe all these years?
Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective
A missing maid. A murder most foul. A highly imprudent adventure. Only her fine eyes can uncover the truth.
Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother’s country estate close to Pemberley, wondering if there’s more to life than cribbage and paying calls.
So when Georgiana Darcy’s maid, Jayani, vanishes and Georgiana disappears in search of her, Caroline races after them to London, only to discover a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
The Butterfly Women
It’s 1863 and Melbourne’s red-light district has drawn the attention of a serial killer. Lush, dark and meticulously researched, this novel gives us a glimpse of the lives of women who were erased from the history books.
The Wedding Vow
She is the perfect wife. He is the perfect liar. A year after he is murdered in their dream home, his wife sets out to uncover the identity of his killer. What she uncovers will shock her, and put her in terrible danger.
Lyrebird
Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, so if they mimic a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, they have witnessed a crime. But how does a young, hungover PHD student and a wet behind the ears new detective, convince anyone that a native bird can be a reliable witness to a murder, especially when there is no body and no missing person?
The Bluff
From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed.
We meet Bea as she moves through the darkness, too scared to use her phone to light the way, but knowing enough to get the rifle from the lockbox on the back of the ute and to hide when she sees the lights approaching.