A Shadow at the Door
Former TV star, Remi Lucan, takes in tenants in her Hobart cottage to pay the bills. A series of “accidents”, and Remi is the target of someone who wants to destroy her.
Former TV star, Remi Lucan, takes in tenants in her Hobart cottage to pay the bills. A series of “accidents”, and Remi is the target of someone who wants to destroy her.
A daughter doesn’t come home from school one day. Her grieving family will endure a forty-year struggle to find the truth.
A gripping mystery. A story of obsession and the dark places to which this can take fractured people.
Nicole Morris founded the Australian Missing Persons Register. She is inspirational. Vanished is a glimpse of the families behind the headlines.
In 1979 a baby vanished from her cot in suburban Adelaide. Forty years later there’s a knock on the door. Is it her? Where has she been?
Maryrose Cuskelly didn’t set out to be a crime writer. She actively avoided it because she says,”I wasn’t sure I had the writing chops for it.” Time has proved her wrong!
Veronica Gorrie drew on her lived experience as a Gunai/Kurnai woman and former police officer for her book Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience (Scribe Publications). Through her sharp wit and engaging storytelling, she takes us on her journey as an Aboriginal person who joined the white, male-dominated Queensland police.
Kerry McGinnis’s latest novel The Missing Girl is a terrific little read, laced with gothic elements: a mysterious disappearance, secret compartments, hidden identities, betrayals and lies. And, of course, there’s always McGinnis’s trademark lick of romance.
Widow’s Island isn’t the most complex thriller of its type, but its rhythm leads you easily into down the dark path of the story and on to a satisfying conclusion.
Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia. Warning: depiction of family violence will make you quiver and wince.