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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 Thursday Murder Club (#1) 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
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
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.
Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Jackson Brodie
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a f ...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 Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget -- until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prov ...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