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On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out. Not far from ...Show more
The Port Fairy Murders (Holiday Murders #2) by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION | Series: The\Murders Ser.
The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel toThe Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police. The department has been struggling to counter little-known fascist groups, particularly an organisation called Australia Fir ...Show more
The Nancys by Robert McDonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION
Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise. Tippy is in love with her uncle's old Nancy Drew ...Show more
Quota by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good ...Show more
The Holiday Murders (Holiday Murders #1) by Robert Gott
$29.95 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION | Series: The\Murders Ser.
On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Autumn Murders (Holiday Murders #3) by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION
In the autumn of 1944, George Starling prepares to exact revenge on the person he hates most in the world (and Starling has a long list of people he hates), Detective Joe Sable of the Melbourne Homicide division. Driven by his dark passion for Nazism, Starling is going to make sure that nothing and no o ...Show more
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - Text Classics by Fergus Hume
$12.95 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Text Classics
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a ...Show more
Preservation PB by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
$32.99 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION | Reading Level: near fine
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what's expected of her. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. She isn't fitting in; she doesn't want to stay. What ...Show more
The Broken Shore (#1) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION | Series: Broken Shore Ser.
For Cashin, they include a posting away from the world of murderers, of Homicide, to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Here all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before Sarris. Then rich Charles Bourgoyne, the local benefactor, is b ...Show more
Crooked Vows by John Watt
$22.95 AUD
Category: CRIME FICTION
Thomas, a 23-year-old student priest, emerges alone from the wilderness four days after surviving a plane crash. But a missing woman's footprints are found with his, near the crash site. What part did Thomas play in her disappearance? And why does he claim he can remember nothing? Sent to a psychiatrist ...Show more