THE CREEPER
This story takes you to Victoria’s rugged high country and a small mountain town. Ten years ago, five hikers were found murdered and nearby was the body of known loner and stalker. Murder-suicide, case closed. Were they wrong?
crime fiction
FIRE AND BONES
Temperance Brennan is back, and this time she is at the centre of an arson investigation in Washington, D.C. Fans of Kathy Reichs and her much-loved creation, Bones, have been hanging out for this one. You won’t be disappointed.
EX
Adele Soames travels to London to be near where her son, Toby, lived and died. A freak accident, they said. She crosses paths with a cop who previously worked several cold cases of missing boys. A terrific character-driven story.
GOOD HALF GONE
When Iris Walsh was a teenager she saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped. It has always haunted Iris. Where is her twin? As an adult she sets out to find answers in this compelling story.
SHADOW CITY
From Ned Kelly award winner, Natalie Conyer, comes a fast-paced and fascinating story. This thought-provoking read casts a light on worldwide people smuggling.
EDENHOPE
This is the revelatory story of an ordinary woman who will let nothing, not even the law, stand in the way of her grandchildren’s safety. Simply, elegantly told and utterly compelling, this is a must-read.
IF ONLY HE NEVER
When Curtis’s hopes for a brighter future with his beguiling new neighbour Laura are dashed by her betrayal turning him into a murder suspect, he’s positive things can’t get worse—until he escapes from a rain of bullets. The reason, so Laura tells him: he carries the solution scientists will kill for in his blood.
THE LAST TRACE
Family. It means everything to Sheridan. She has missed having her brother around. At last, Lachy is back in Australia, and Sheridan can’t wait to spend the Easter holidays all together in the mountains with their kids.
But, on Good Friday, something devastating happens that rips their two families apart, and now she can’t imagine ever forgiving him.
OPAL
DS Walker is back for the third in this series set in outback Queensland. Lucas and his half-sister are stuck in a mining town, cut off by a flood. And two people have been murdered.
THE HOUSESITTER
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.