Crime fiction & true crime 2016

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Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories

Andrea Camilleri

A personal anthology of Andrea Camilleri’s favourite short stories, all starring the much loved Inspector Montalbano.

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Moskva: ‘The new Le Carre’ BBC Radio 2 The Sara Cox Show

Jack Grimwood

Christmas Eve 1985 - The shaved, exsanguinated body of a young man is found in Red Square; frozen solid - like marble to the touch - missing the little finger…

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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.

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The Widow

Fiona Barton

Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she’d ever wanted. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. But now…

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The Tao Deception: A Tori Swyft Thriller

John M. Green

‘The Da Vinci Code meets James Bond’. An explosive tale of espionage and international political intrigue from John M. Green

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Old Scores

David Whish-Wilson

It s the early 1980s: the heady days of excess, dirty secrets and personal favours. Former detective Frank Swann is still in disgrace, working as a low-rent PI. But when…

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The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

P. D. James

As the acknowledged ‘Queen of Crime’, the author was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. In this book, four of the best…

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Into the Darkness: the mysterious death of Phoebe Handsjuk

Robin Bowles

On 2 December 2010, the body of a 23-year-old woman was found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea tower apartments in St Kilda Road, Melbourne…

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Dead in the Water

Tania Chandler

Dead in the Water is about trying to escape the cycle of trauma. It delves into the darkness beneath the surface of fear, betrayal, and revenge, to find a glimmer…

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The Scholl Case

Anna Reich-Osang

Gripping true crime story about sex, marriage, politics and murder in a peaceful German town. ‘Serial’ meets ‘Desperate Housewives.

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The Hit

Nadia Dalbuono

The investigation of an apparent hit-and-run unravels a tangled web in modern Rome.

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Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Amy Stewart

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters.

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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper

Bruce Robinson

A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history’s most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer…

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The Rules of Backyard Cricket

Jock Serong

Unusual crime thriller, two brothers share a love of cricket and rise to fame but their character differences divide them.

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The Shadow Game

Steve Lewis,Chris Uhlmann

Scandal, vengeance, redemption in the third book in the series that inspired Foxtel’s Secret City.

Beloved yet dishevelled newshound Harry Dunkley has fallen about as low as it’s possible to…

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My Italians: True Stories of Crime and Courage

Roberto Saviano

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be…

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The Serpent’s Sting

Robert Gott

William Power, actor and sometime-private inquiry agent, has returned from the Northern Territory, shaken, stirred, and generally discombobulated. I survived the tropics with my life and my looks intact, despite…

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The Falls

B. Michael Radburn

Damaged but not yet broken after an ordeal in Tasmania’s wilderness, park ranger Taylor Bridges believes his ghosts are in the past until a raging forest fire in an isolated…

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The Girl in Green

Derek Miller

Takes us deep into heart of Iraq, as British journalist Thomas Benton is persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes, and supported by relief worker Marta Strom, to embark on what…

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You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You are Raoul Moat)

Andrew Hankinson

A work of narrative non-fiction that is based on the last days of the fugitive Raoul Moat, a Geordie bodybuilder and mechanic who became nationally notorious in Britain one hot…

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The Crime Writer

Jill Dawson

A tour de force from the Orange Prize-shorlisted Jill Dawson - at once a brilliant portrait of Patricia Highsmith in all her oddness and a pitch-perfect Highsmith-like tale of duplicity…

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Dead Men Don’t Order Flake: A Rusty Bore Mystery

Sue Williams

On the night Leo Stone returns-notionally from the dead, in reality from the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Cass Tuplin gets a call from Gary Kellett. A call about an actual…

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Sunset City

Melissa Ginsburg

A taut, erotically charged literary noir set in Houston about a woman caught up in her friend’s shocking murder, and the dark truths she uncovers.

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The Poison Artist

Jonathan Moore

Imagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductive

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Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge: A Singaporean Mystery

Ovidia Yu

Aunty Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home cooking restaurant is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.

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Dangerous to Know: Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist

Anne Buist,Anne Buist

Natalie King s charismatic new boss needs her help. But there’s something terrible in his past that could threaten her life.

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Missing

Melanie Casey

On any night, 1 person in 200 is homeless

Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump…

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The Marauders: A Novel

Tom Cooper

Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Crown Publishers.

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A Murder without Motive: the killing of Rebecca Ryle

Martin McKenzie-Murray

In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the  grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing  would mystify investigators, lawyers, and…

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Girl waits with Gun

Amy Stewart

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation s first female deputy…

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