A group of drama classmates find the body of one of their teachers and join forces to seek answers to her murder. This is a YA murder mystery with strong themes around acceptance and belonging and the complexity of teenage relationships.
From last year’s Best Children’s Davitt Award comes another wonderful adventure. This time the Sugarcane Kids are investigating illegal native-animal trade. This is one for the young and the young at heart.
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.
Minette Walters has written a powerful historical story that features two unforgettable women. Set in the dark days of The Bloody Assizes, it’s a wonderful read.
A wonderful debut, set in the Wimmera. Skye is a paramedic with a passion for rock climbing. When Skye finds a woman’s body dumped in a pit behind an old settler’s cottage whilst walking her dogs, it sets off a chain of events that will lead to the revelation of more than one violent secret in the small community.
An author releases her debut novel. She’s ecstatic. Then comes an aggressive one-star review online, and it triggers a campaign of terrible reviews and online harassment. Was it really a disgruntled reader who turned Camryn Lane’s life upside down?
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.