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When Western Australian radio journalist Amy Rhinehart decides to use a crime podcast to explore a gruesome murder, she’s seeking ratings, awards and career glory. Her idea: to use the listeners of her radio show as its co-creators, with live-time calls and digital suggestion boards.
A week before polling day Lucy takes the family dog for a walk and doesn’t return. Justin is convinced Lucy has left him, but Gabby is certain her mother is missing and in trouble. Why isn’t her father looking?
A girl with a secret …
A murder that remains a mystery …
Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated inwards, the community moved on. But all that’s about to change.
Busy parents Mia and Ryan were devastated when their former nanny, Irish backpacker Tara, tragically disappeared. But that was two years ago. Now they want to move on and focus on their son … so why are the police questioning them again?
Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses.
A stranger accosts Olivia on the street warning, “Don’t sign anything.” When she reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart.
Being a woman in a hostile and competitive male world has never been easy, but being a lactating mother decidedly ups the ante.
Men get away with murder all the time. Now it’s our turn … A twisty, intriguing crime novel for fans of The Mother and The Family Doctor.
A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. Who can we trust?
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?