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Kate, Angus, Michael, Amanda and Deb ALL love a good crime fiction read, from twisty domestic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, from cosy mysteries you can curl up with to action-packed novels that leave you breathless. Whether you're looking for a new series to sink your teeth into or a satisfying standalone, we've got you covered with our collected recommendations.
The Scholar (#2 Cormac Reilly) by Dervla McTiernan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.
'A truly fine police procedural' - IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Utterly compelling' - JANE CASEY 'A superbly paced, engaging read' - WOMAN'S WAY BRILLIANCE CAN BE DEADLY . . . When Detective Cormac Reilly's girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of ...Show more
The Search Party by Hannah Richell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Five old friends reunite for an idyllic glamping holiday on the rugged Cornwall coast, but tensions rise when a storm leaves them stranded and someone goes missing. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Ea ...Show more
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club 1
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might b ...Show more
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Finlay Donovan Ser.
When struggling crime writer Finlay Donovan takes on a life of crime normally reserved for her characters, she finds herself entangled in a real-life murder investigation. Witty and fast-paced, this murder mystery is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Maria Semple.'Proves you only need to get mista ...Show more
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Dama ...Show more
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERWhat should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Sometimes the only thing to fear...is yourself.Leonora (Lee to some, ...Show more
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Cormoran Strike Ser.
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up w ...Show more
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’ On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. ...Show more
The Silence by Susan Allott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens' next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had gone to start a new lif ...Show more
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
THEIR DREAM HOUSE WILL BECOME HER WORST NIGHTMARE'Ruth Ware just gets better and better' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs'The queen of creepy crime' Metro When Rowan comes across the advert, it seems too good to be true: a live-in nanny position, with an extremely generous salary. ...Show more
Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Even serial killers want a happily-ever-after . . . The darkly funny, ingenious and outrageous thriller debut from Julie Mae Cohen.
Broken (TPB) by Don Winslow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-l ...Show more
