Journo-noir

With their observational skills and passion for research, podcasters, journalists and writers make natural amateur sleuths. Here are some great crime reads featuring writers with a talent for solving mysteries.

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17 Years Later

J.P. Pomare

The unputdownable new bestseller from multi-award-winning author J.P. Pomare

$32.99

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A Town Called Treachery

Mitch Jennings

A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past ... and a town full of secrets. Can the truth ever be found in a town called Treachery?

$34.99

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The Community

Christine Gregory

Paradise has a price

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Highway 13

Fiona McFarlane

A gripping, provocative work by one of our finest writers, the internationally acclaimed author Fiona McFarlane.

$32.99

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None of This is True

Lisa Jewell

Prepare to be hooked: nail-biting suspense from the addictive number one ten-million-copy bestselling author.

$22.99

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Dark Corners

Megan Goldin

True crime podcaster Rachel Krall is back, in search of a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer.

$32.99

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Rabbit Hole

Kate Brody

A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession by a striking new talent

$32.99

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The Rumor Game

Thomas Mullen

A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World War II-era Boston from the multi-award-nominated author.

$34.99

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End of Story

A. J. Finn

The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit bestseller The Woman in the Window. "I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story."

$32.99

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Day One

Abigail Dean

Marty told the reporters that she saw it happen. She saw the gunman enter the hall. She saw her mother die trying to protect them all.

$32.99

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Where They Lie

Claire Coughlan

Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .

$32.99

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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

Nicci French

She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .

$32.99

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Naked City

John Silvester

John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of…

$36.99

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Breathless

Amy McCulloch

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022"--Title page verso.

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

The dark comedy and whip-smart voice of You elevates the twisty suspense of Lisa Jewell's None of This is True in this read-until-four-am mystery thriller.

$34.99

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Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect

Benjamin Stevenson

Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.

$32.99

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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson

Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle meet Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.

$22.99

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Pheasants Nest

Louise Milligan

A gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut by award-winning investigative journalist and writer Louise Milligan.

$32.99

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The Poet

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly’s breakout thriller: cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.

$22.99

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The Mystery Writer

Sulari Gentill

She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers.

$34.99

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium, Book 1)

Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (trans.)

Meet Lisbeth Salander - the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.

$22.99

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Scrublands

Chris Hammer

A powerful and compelling debut Australian crime novel that will suit fans of Peter May, Jane Harper, and Dennis Lehane.

$22.99

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A Place of Execution

Val McDermid

A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction - Val McDermid.

$22.99

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The Field of Blood

Denise Mina

The first novel in the addictive Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina.

$19.99

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Beast in the Shadows

Ranpo Edogawa, Ian Hughes (trans.)

A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind…

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The Scarecrow

Michael Connelly

The instant #1 bestseller from the best mystery writer in the world ( GQ ) brings back the hero of The Poet in a terrifying new thriller. Forced out of…

$22.99

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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Some scars never heal… An addictive and haunting thriller from award-winning author Gillian Flynn.

$22.99

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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

Open the safe deposit box. Inside you will find research material for a true crime book. You must read the documents, then make a decision. Will you destroy them? Or…

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Fair Warning

Michael Connelly

Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy - the hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow - tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar - until now -…

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The Journalist And The Murderer

Janet Malcolm

In 1979, a journalist met a murderer, MacDonald, and decided to write the story of his crime, claiming that it would work in his defence. However, the resulting story was…

$22.99

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

John Berendt’s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account…

$24.99

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author’s study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances…

$22.99

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I’ll Be Gone In the Dark

Michelle McNamara

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted…

$24.99

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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon

The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire

$32.99

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