Ruth Wykes
When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a quest to find Marie’s killer.
For fans of Rowland Sinclair, he’s on a break. In this standalone story, Sulari Gentill introduces us to Theo, a young woman who wants to write the biggest bestselling book in the world. She heads to the US where, to her utter shock, she finds herself the prime suspect in the death of another author.
This one is hard to put down. Set in Tasmania, Em has come home from the US, partly to get away from her abusive Hollywood husband and the media frenzy of their split. But small things start to go awry almost immediately – then her mother disappears.
This debut novel draws on the true stories of female convicts who are sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. We meet Hannah Bird in London in 1833 and follow her to Sydney in a story that is as sweeping as it is sobering.
In small-town Hangman’s Gap in Queensland there is a John Doe in the local morgue. The suspicious death of a policeman has the town on edge. And then a third man dies. Plot twists will keep you guessing: who did it? And why?
A delightful story for the young and young at heart about a pop-up library which appears overnight. It is guarded by a cat, and a boy suddenly discovers there’s a mystery hidden in one of the books he borrows.
In this terrific debut, anaesthetist Clare Carpenter has just lost her husband and her memory in a single-vehicle accident. Her husband kept secrets, and someone is out for vengeance.
A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people. A must read!
From the winner of the 2023 Davitt Award for Best Debut comes this gripping new story. Set in the Blue Mountains, three young women go rock climbing, and one falls to her death. Or does she?
Former police officer PI Lou Alcott has an interesting family. Dad is a high ranking cop, her grandfather is Melbourne’s biggest crime boss. On her first day as a PI she draws two cases helping at-risk women and her world is plunged into danger.