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.
crime fiction
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.
WOMAN, MISSING
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.
AFTER THE SMOKE CLEARS
A wonderful, gritty story about family and childhood trauma, and how parents and the significant others in a young person’s life can make choices that leave a lasting scar on young skin.
MIDNIGHT AT MAIDENSTONE HALL
What terrible secret is hidden within the walls of this family manor? Set at the end of WW1 a young man is searching for answers about the death of his secret male lover. Hiding his own secrets, trying to uncover those of an entire family.
NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS
Young Adult
She used to be one of the most popular girls in school until nude photos were leaked. And now her former best friend has disappeared.
WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin, and only Simon comes home.
IT TAKES A TOWN
A terrible storm hits a country town then glamorous, but hated by everyone, Vanessa Walton is found dead at the bottom of her stairs. And a teenager who believes it was murder, not a trip over a bucket, disappears
PHEASANTS NEST
Kate Delaney humiliated a man one night and now she’s bound and gagged in the boot of his car. She’s a crime journalist, she knows how much trouble she is in.
TO THE RIVER
Sabine Kelly lives on a houseboat, on the run 12 years after a caravan fire killed several people, including Sabine’s family. She confessed, then ran to the river.