Australian crime fiction & true crime 2019

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The Great Divide

L.J.M Owen

A city detective hunts a killer through a fog of lies in small town Tasmania.

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Dead Man Switch

Tara Moss

Bestselling author Tara Moss returns to crime fiction with a stunning new series, and a stunning new heroine. Meet PI Billie Walker – smart and sexy, with a dash of…

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True West

David Whish-Wilson

A fast-paced and unsettling action thriller inspired by historical fact. The book captures Perth’s burgeoning Neo-Nazi movement in the late 1980s.

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The Red Hand

Peter Temple

The unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple

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Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham

The first in an exciting new series featuring forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, from world-renowned author Michael Robotham.

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The Devil’s Grip

Neal Drinnan

From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District’s prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil’s…

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The Day The Lies Began

Kylie Kaden

Big Little Lies meets The Party. Kylie Kaden is the freshest, new voice in domestic noir.

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Life Sentence: My last eighteen months

Carl Williams,Carl Williams

In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years’ jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings…

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The Pretty Girl Killer

Andrew Byrne

The complete true story of one of the world’s most horrifying serial killers, who terrorised both Australia and America

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See You at the Toxteth

Peter Corris

For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as ‘the godfather of Australian fiction’, and Cliff Hardy has been Australia’s favourite private investigator since he solved his first case in…

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Sarah Thornton

Small town secrets and divisions come bubbling to the surface in Sarah Thornton’s gripping debut crime novel.

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Snake Island

Ben Hobson

Reading like a morality tale Western but in a starkly beautiful Australian setting, Snake Island is a propulsive literary thriller written with great clarity and power.

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Bowraville

Dan Box

From the creator of the Walkley Award-winning podcast comes the story of a small Australian town, the murders of three children and a desperate fight for justice.

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Shoot Through

J. M. Green

Stella Hardy, the wisecracking social worker, is back to tackle crooked private contractors, an exotic cattle scam, and a delicious Mushroom Jalfrezi.

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A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case

Antonio Buti

On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy.

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Mandatory Murder

Steven Schubert

A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town

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The Autumn Murders

Robert Gott

The series that began with The Holiday Murders and The Port Fairy Murders now continues with The Autumn Murders …

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The Accusation

Wendy James

A powerful exploration of the fragility of trust and the loss of innocence, from the author of The Golden Child and The Mistake.

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The Suicide Bride

Tanya Bretherton

From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a…

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River of Salt

Dave Warner

Former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man. But…

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Southern Justice

Colin McLaren

Who really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail.

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Death on the Derwent

Robin Bowles

Don’t fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail.

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Bye Bye Baby

Fiona McIntosh

There is a killer on the loose. Scotland Yard’s brightest talent is chosen to head up the high-profile taskforce, a DCI who must confront his own past as the body…

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Comeback

Lindsay Tanner

Knockabout Melbourne taxi-driver Jack van Duyn is back in action, taking on crooked property developers while being stalked by a deranged figure from his past.

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The Night Dragon

Matthew Condon

The Night Dragon is the fifth volume in Matthew Condon’s chronicle of Queensland crime and corruption in the 20th Century.

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The Ink Stain (The Monsarrat Series Book 4)

Tom Keneally,Meg Keneally

Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top - to the office of the governor - and threaten the colony’s…

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All the Tears in China (Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 9)

Sulari Gentill

The new book in The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries.

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Half Moon Lake

Kirsten Alexander

Inspired by a real case, Half Moon Lake is a captivating historical novel set in America’s Deep South about a lost boy - and the two mothers who both seek…

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Promised Land

Barry Maitland

Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath. Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely figure of John Pettigrew…

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Australian crime fiction & true crime 2019

The Great Divide

Dead Man Switch

True West

The Red Hand

Good Girl, Bad Girl

The Devil’s Grip

The Day The Lies Began

Life Sentence: My last eighteen months

The Pretty Girl Killer

See You at the Toxteth

Lapse

Snake Island

Bowraville

Shoot Through

A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case

Mandatory Murder

The Autumn Murders

The Accusation

The Suicide Bride

River of Salt

Southern Justice

Death on the Derwent

Bye Bye Baby

Comeback

The Night Dragon

The Ink Stain (The Monsarrat Series Book 4)

All the Tears in China (Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 9)

Half Moon Lake

Promised Land