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  • EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH...
    Lucy Golden is a true crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult led by her father.
    Twenty years later, still coasting on the original success of the memoir she wrote after her acquittal, Lucy knows that her story is always just once news cycle away from obscurity, even as online trolls are asking questions that threaten to tear her life apart.
    So when a hot-shot documentary filmmaker decides to make her case his next subject, Lucy sees a chance to silence her doubters
  • once and for all.
    As filming begins, and she returns to face her own past trauma in the California desert, long-buried secrets collide with present-day threats. Just how far will Lucy go to protect the story she's been telling - and selling - all along?
Paper Cut (Modern & contemporary fiction) Rachel Taff $34.99
  • EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.
  • Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .
Good People (Modern & contemporary fiction) Patmeena Sabit $34.99
  • When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table - with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene - psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it's an open-and-shut case.But the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him?Many miles away, a former LAPD officer is found brutally murdered in her garage. Her co-workers knew her as meticulously organized, but her house is full of junk and meaningless objects - except for the envelopes full of cash hidden within the chaos...
  • But as Alex and Milo dig deeper, they discover shocking links between the victims. It soon becomes clear they have a complicated - and deadly - puzzle to solve.
Jigsaw (Thriller / suspense) Jonathan Kellerman $34.99
  • Four friends, two pregnancies and the mother of all awkward situations...
    Hillary and her partner are eager for a baby, their sex life dictated by the automated texts from their fertility agency, MotherWorld.
    Her best friend Maggie is a single mother living her best life, enjoying a healthy relationship with her ex, and a healthy appetite on the dating apps.
    With her youngest now at school, Shelley is returning to the office, hoping to prove her value at the gold-star advertising agency she works for.
  • Meanwhile, midwife Virginia has made a career of helping other people have babies, but is suddenly yearning for one of her own. With no partner in sight, she cooks up an unhinged plan...
Seed (Modern & contemporary fiction) Elisabeth Easther $34.99
  • It's 1961 and the Queen is planning her state visit to Italy aboard Britannia. But before she goes, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from the royal train. Did it really happen, and could the victim be a missing friend of Princess Margaret's new husband, Tony Armstrong Jones?
    The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation, little imagining that this time it will take them all the way to Venice in a tale of spies, lies and Cold War skulduggery.
The Queen Who Came in From The Cold (Crime & mystery) S.J. Bennett $32.99
  • The Bastards aren't afraid of anything.It's the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, four girls - each hailing from single-mother, multi-sibling families, form a band: The Bastards. Friends since they were children, they consider themselves 'forgettable girls' - distracted, disillusioned, and desperate to escape the fates of their mothers.Winning the Battle of the Bands is their ticket out - they might not have talent, but they can play three chords and scream until their vocal folds burst out of their throats - and nobody wants it more than them.But when lead singer Lily Lucid quits, and accuses their idolized music teacher of sexual assault, the three remaining girls are
    • left with nothing. They'll do anything to keep their dream alive, even if it means sacrificing school, Lily and their mothers. But how far out of control can they spin before there's no turning back?
In Bloom (Modern & contemporary fiction) Liz Allan $34.99
  • Aubrey is not what she seems. She's young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and ... a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can't. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix or garlic or fire. And she'd know, she's tried every method. Twice.
    So she's stuck here on this earth, all alone. Even the vampire who made her has abandoned her.
    But everything changes when, one fateful night, she meets Jonathan. He's everything Aubrey's ever dreamed of and, what's more, he's her soulmate. Her Bella–Edward story.
  • For the first time in 150 years, she has a reason to hope—eternal life might be bearable after all. So when Jonathan unexpectedly breaks up with her, she'll do anything to get him back.
    But that's the exact moment Oscar, aristocratic douchebag and her long-gone sire, swoops back into her life. And he has other plans for her. Soon, she's thrown into a world of glamour, glitter, blood and hedonism, a world that has her questioning everything she knows to be true—about life, but also about herself.
    A world where nothing is simple ... and no one is safe, either.
Aubrey Wants to Die (Modern & contemporary fiction) Pip Knight $34.99
  • Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass- America's new K-pop inspired boyband obsession. Soon she is memorising the lyrics to every song and staying up late to watch their livestreams, hoping that her favourite member, bad-boy Halo, will see her in the comments.
    On the other side of the screen, Halo is also becoming addicted to the adoration from his fans, using their love to paper over the cracks of the tragic past he is determined to keep hidden.
    But when Minnie is drawn to a shadowy fan community who believe they need to protect
  • the band members from a dark conspiracy, the line between fandom and obsession begins to blur...
Superfan (Modern & contemporary fiction) Jenny Zhang $34.99
  • There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest
  • that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she must dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before?
The Girls Before (Thriller / suspense) Kate Marshall $34.99
  • Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse.
    A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only catch- she has some. . . unusual tastes.
    As he prepares delicious dishes - fresh crab salad with a panko crumb, lamb shank dripping in red wine juice, sweet, fluffy souffle pancakes - he realizes that each meal is a test, a challenge to satisfy an insatiable appetite.
  • Caught up in a world more sinister than he could ever have imagined, Ed finds himself entangled in another debt.
    As the stakes grow, he must make a choice.Will he stay hungry? Or will he be greedy?
    Dinner is served.Eat Up.
Greedy(Thriller / suspense)Callie Kazumi$34.99
  • You're the love of Esther's life. You just don't know it yet...
    Esther first sees Ted walking in a park in London. They lock eyes and for a fraction of a second, she feels something she's never felt before.
    She starts by reading up about his life in Canada and his work as an actor. Then she watches every interview with him online. It isn't long before she's joined Ted's fan site online where her and the 'Tedettes' stalk his every move.
    When Ted gets a new celebrity girlfriend, Esther decides that things have gone far
  • enough. She leaves her husband, takes all their savings, and buys a one-way ticket to Canada.
    After all, Ted might not know it yet, but they are meant to be together - he just needs a little bit of persuading...
Esther is Now Following You(Thriller / suspense)Tanya Sweeney$34.99
  • The Sisterhood Rules-
    1. Never let a man come between you2. Share all your secrets3. Live life to the fullest - girls just wanna have funFor twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy's husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister's betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters' problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there's a will -
  • he'd clearly like to be in it.
    Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past?
The Sisterhood Rules(Modern & contemporary fiction)Kathy Lette$34.99
  • Once a fearless SAS hero, Andy 'Deadman' Bird now battles the harsh streets of London after a catastrophic mission stripped him of his hearing, career, home, and marriage. His only solace is Tyson, his fiercely loyal and battle-tested dog. When fate thrusts them into the path of a chilling alleyway murder, Andy and Tyson become the next targets. Who are these relentless hunters, and what dangerous secrets are they willing to kill for? Desperate and cornered, Andy reaches out to his former brothers-in-arms - a team who owe him their very lives. But as they unravel a sinister web of organised crime and deadly political plots, who will be saving who this time?
Underdogs(Thriller / suspense)Stephen Leather$34.99
  • When a woman’s body is found lying in the grass, DS Roberta Steel must put her own problems aside and uncover the truth . . .













And The Corpse Wore Tartan(Crime & mystery)Stuart MacBride$32.99
  • FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI's hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.
    PAR's latest case involves a militia group stockpiling weapons. When their confidential informant in the case is killed, it quickly becomes clear that the militia did not kill him.
    As the squad looks into the evidence surrounding his murder, an unidentified man is caught on camera with their informant. This mystery man's picture is connected to
  • another case at the FBI, an unsolved series of murdered women, buried in the ground in north Florida. Could they have uncovered a serial killer? And if so, what is his connection to their C.I.?
    As PAR juggles an investigation into both the dead women and the militia, they enroll a new informant, only to find the case escalating in dangerous ways. How will PAR handle a case that increasingly looks like a terrorist plot? And in the serial case, with no puzzles or witnesses, and few leads, how will a group set up to decode riddles be successful?
Inside Man(Crime & mystery)John McMahon$34.99
  • Former soldier. Deadly enemies. One fight for survival.
    In a deadly game of cat and mouse, former Australian Infantry soldier Cable Martin faces his most dangerous mission yet: taking down a ruthless enemy — a rogue faction of ex-Australian Special Forces operatives who will stop at nothing to achieve their twisted goals.
    When a chance encounter with an old comrade drags Cable into the shadows of modern crime, he finds himself hunted by Jack — an enigmatic and relentless leader hardened by the brutal battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Expert killers forged
  • by war, Jack and his team thrive on the thrill of the hunt, and Cable is their next target.
    Outmatched and outgunned, Cable must rely on every ounce of his military training and instincts to survive. But these are no ordinary foes — they are predators who exploit weakness and kill without mercy.
Blood Hike(Espionage & spy thriller)Peter O'Hanlon$32.99
  • A Sydney Opera House production of The Rocky Horror Show ends in tragedy when a stage prop kills Hollywood star Dane Cooder in a spectacularly gruesome fashion. The whole theatre, including his wife and co-star Angelique Swan, watch in horror.
    The death is ruled an accident, but Dick Sonntag, disgraced journalist with online gossip site WTF, disagrees. Sonntag is in the audience that night and investigates further. He launches a smash-hit podcast about the celebrity death and, due to the public outcry, the case is reopened.
    At the same time, a small boy is kidnapped and held for ransom.
  • Detective Harry Stiles is brought in to lead both cases. She despises Sonntag: the last time they crossed paths, he derailed her investigation involving police corruption. Will Harry’s artificial intelligence skills help them pin down the culprits this time?
    As the investigations unfold, Sonntag and Stiles uncover affairs, dark secrets and blackmail against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour.
Staged (Thriller / suspense)John M. Green$34.99
  • Berlin 1932: With Germany in chaos, Monika Varády, a young Bavarian actress, arrives in the capital with high hopes - to one day, just maybe, be a great star of the stage and screen.
    But with the rise to power of Hitler and his brutal Nazi regime, the theatre scene falls under the control of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, becoming a minefield of political machinations that Monika, in love with a Bolshevik Jewish actor, must now navigate. As her star rises from the smoky bars of the demi-monde to the city's prestigious stages, most dangerous of all is Goebbels himself who takes a more-than-artistic interest in her.
  • While staying true to her beliefs and to those she loves, Monika must employ all the skills of her craft to outwit Goebbels and with her close friends, to resist the regime's attempts to rewrite German theatre and culture, by hiding in plain sight - even in the glare of the spotlight.
The Woman in The Spotlight(Historical fiction)J.R. Lonie$34.99
  • What happened to the dog walker who found the body?
    Glasgow, 1979.
    Twelve-year-old Janey won't take her dog, Sid Vicious, for a walk. Not anymore. It's Sid's fault she found the murdered woman.
    Janey claims she can't remember what she saw at the abandoned railway, but the police think she's hiding something. And they're not the only ones interested.
    Fear and rumour rip through the tight-knit community of Possilpark. Janey and her nana, Maggie, are dragged into the hunt for a
  • murderer. And Maggie's struggle to keep her beloved granddaughter safe becomes ever more desperate.
    Because Janey's memories can't stay hidden forever.
    And neither can the killer...
A Bad, Bad Place (Crime & mystery) Frances Crawford $34.99
  • Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson must divide and conquer when they're sent to investigate two serious crimes.
    In Washington DC, John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a street and calls in the bomb squad for a suspected terrorist attack.
    In North Carolina, Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student - his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father's footsteps made Damon a target?
    From FBI headquarters to police stations, airplanes to murder scenes, the detectives
  • track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart.
    It will take more than distance to weaken their unstoppable partnership.
Cross & Sampson (Thriller / suspense) James Patterson $34.99
  • The Cornish coast. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages.
    Isabel has always been a woman of mystery. As a child of four, she appeared on the Cornish shore, soaking wet, unable to speak. The villagers believed she was brought from the sea, the daughter of a spirit.
    Now, newly widowed, Isabel feels the ocean calling her to come back home.
    And when Jack Carlyon, an injured smuggler, crosses her path, she is swept up into a love story that will test her courage, her reputation, and her heart. Jack plays a dangerous game, and there are those that
  • would hang him if they knew what he was. Isabel fights to make sense of the magical pull of the ocean and wants to protect Jack – but at what cost?
    She is a daughter of the sea. He is a man of the land. Can they overcome the odds to be together?
The Sea Child (Historical fiction) Linda Wilgus $49.99
  • Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes to light, he wins his appeal for a retrial.
    Detective Inspector Pat North is assigned to the reinvestigation. But when North discovers that her partner, Detective Superintendent Mike Walker, led the original police inquiry, their fledgling relationship is put to the test - particularly when she starts to suspect that he is covering something up.Could Walker have tampered with evidence to frame an innocent man? And if so, who is the real killer?
Appeal (Crime & mystery) Lynda La Plante $32.99
  • Every morning before sunrise, Lim Ah Hock opens the shutters of his small kitchen on Carpenter Street, lights an incense stick and prepares the best laksa soup in all of Kuching. According to Lim family legend, the laksa's secret ingredient - their ancestral broth - was gifted to them by a deity, who promised the family prosperity as long as the broth is passed down through the generations.
    But Ah Hock is aging, and the broth's quality is fading. His only son, Wei Ming, has no interest in the family business, having spent eight years in Hong Kong trying to prove himself as a chef. Now, he's struggling with gambling debts, embroiled in a love triangle,
  • and the restaurant he's been left to run has lost its Global Restaurants Guild star.
    Invited home to Malaysia for his father's 60th birthday, Wei Ming sees a chance to escape his troubles. But when old conflicts resurface and a local businessman threatens to destroy the family legacy, father and son are forced to ask themselves what truly matters.
Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe (Modern & contemporary fiction) Janet Tay $34.99
  • Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.
    For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.
    Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire.
  • Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.
Lost Lambs (Modern & contemporary fiction) Madeline Cash $34.99
  • Rebel-in-a-smock-dress Barri Brown has spent years slaving away as an English teacher in Guernsey, covering for colleagues with kids and barely tolerating the unhygienic staffroom etiquette. With a distant family and a husband who has just vanished along with her life savings, Barri dreams of escape. Her wild plan? Pretend she's having a baby and use the paid year off work to start over somewhere new. And so Barri tells the school she's pregnant, orders seven bumps on the internet and sets the wheels in motion for her great pregnancy heist. All she has to do is blag it until she can disappear for good, without getting caught and being sent to prison for fraud. How hard could it be? On a small island like
  • Guernsey: nightmarish. Especially when her student, fifteen-year-old irredeemable troublemaker Callum, discovers her secret. To make matters worse, Barri's fake pregnancy forces her to make genuine connections with friends and family for the first time in years and she begins to understand the true cost of her deception. It turns out scamming your way to a better life is harder when you start liking the life you're supposed to escape from . . .
Motherfaker (Modern & contemporary fiction) Anna Brook-Mitchell $34.99
  • Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father’s murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It’s been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life—but why doesn’t it feel good? When her marriage comes to a sudden end, their house burns down in the middle of the night, and she learns that her estranged sister has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Ruth is jolted back into action. She flees again, this
  • time back to her home state of California, with her nonbinary teenager in tow, perhaps ready at last to face her pain and retrieve her former self.
Trigger Warning (Modern & contemporary fiction) Jacinda Townsend $32.99
  • EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH...
    Lucy Golden is a true crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult led by her father.
    Twenty years later, still coasting on the original success of the memoir she wrote after her acquittal, Lucy knows that her story is always just once news cycle away from obscurity, even as online trolls are asking questions that threaten to tear her life apart.
    So when a hot-shot documentary filmmaker decides to make her case his next subject, Lucy sees a chance to silence her doubters
  • once and for all.
    As filming begins, and she returns to face her own past trauma in the California desert, long-buried secrets collide with present-day threats. Just how far will Lucy go to protect the story she's been telling - and selling - all along?
Paper Cut(Modern & contemporary fiction)Rachel Taff$34.99
  • EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.
  • Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .
Good People(Modern & contemporary fiction)Patmeena Sabit$34.99
  • When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table - with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene - psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it's an open-and-shut case.
    But the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him?
    Many miles away, a former LAPD officer is found brutally murdered in her garage. Her co-workers knew her as meticulously organized, but her house is full of junk and meaningless objects - except for the envelopes full of cash hidden within the chaos...
  • But as Alex and Milo dig deeper, they discover shocking links between the victims. It soon becomes clear they have a complicated - and deadly - puzzle to solve.
Jigsaw(Thriller / suspense)Jonathan Kellerman$34.99
  • Four friends, two pregnancies and the mother of all awkward situations...
    Hillary and her partner are eager for a baby, their sex life dictated by the automated texts from their fertility agency, MotherWorld.
    Her best friend Maggie is a single mother living her best life, enjoying a healthy relationship with her ex, and a healthy appetite on the dating apps.
    With her youngest now at school, Shelley is returning to the office, hoping to prove her value at the gold-star advertising agency she works for.
  • Meanwhile, midwife Virginia has made a career of helping other people have babies, but is suddenly yearning for one of her own. With no partner in sight, she cooks up an unhinged plan...
Seed(Modern & contemporary fiction)Elisabeth Easther$34.99
  • It's 1961 and the Queen is planning her state visit to Italy aboard Britannia. But before she goes, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from the royal train. Did it really happen, and could the victim be a missing friend of Princess Margaret's new husband, Tony Armstrong Jones?
    The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation, little imagining that this time it will take them all the way to Venice in a tale of spies, lies and Cold War skulduggery.


The Queen Who Came in From The Cold(Crime & mystery)S.J. Bennett$32.99
  • The Bastards aren't afraid of anything.It's the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, four girls - each hailing from single-mother, multi-sibling families, form a band: The Bastards. Friends since they were children, they consider themselves 'forgettable girls' - distracted, disillusioned, and desperate to escape the fates of their mothers.Winning the Battle of the Bands is their ticket out - they might not have talent, but they can play three chords and scream until their vocal folds burst out of their throats - and nobody wants it more than them.But when lead singer Lily Lucid quits, and accuses their idolized music teacher of sexual assault, the three remaining girls are
  • left with nothing. They'll do anything to keep their dream alive, even if it means sacrificing school, Lily and their mothers. But how far out of control can they spin before there's no turning back?
In Bloom (Modern & contemporary fiction)Liz Allan$34.99
  • When Yakov Holtzman arrives in Melbourne - about as far away as he can possibly get from the graveyard that is Europe - he puts behind him the years he spent in the forests of Lithuania as a leader of the resistance, fighting the Nazis. He has come to join his brother - his only surviving family member - and start a new life as the watchmaker he once was.
    Yakov looks for solace - and love - in the fragile, traumatised community of Jewish refugees taking root in a new land. But when swastikas, threats and, most frightening of all, the faces of old enemies appear on the streets of suburban St Kilda, his new-found peace is shattered.
  • Fierce instincts are reawakened in Yakov, and he knows he must act. But how can justice - or revenge - best be served? And will Yakov's drive to destroy his enemies overtake him too, and leave his new life in ruins?
The Watchmaker's War(Historical fiction)Danny Ben-Moshe$34.99
  • By the time Laura and Olivia notice the headlights tailing them through the hills, it’s too late. What seems, at first, like a case of road rage quickly unfolds into a heart-pounding chase – and a battle for survival. Who are the men in the truck? What do they want? And can Laura and Olivia outrun – and outsmart – them long enough to call for help, even if it means taking their chances in the hills on foot? As their situation grows more perilous, the girls realize that the real terror has only just begun. But flight won’t save them from their pursuers. If they’re going to make it home alive, they'll have to fight . . .

Run on Red(Thriller / suspense)Noelle W. Ihli$34.99
  • Detective Lana Cohen thought she had found a slice of peace on the sun-drenched Gold Coast, but her respite is shattered when a severed hand is found on a local beach.
    As the investigation unfolds, Lanaa is thrust into an uneasy partnership with an off-the-rails Internal Investigations cop ‘Miami’ Vince Walters, and a mysterious Melbourne private investigator Ewan Hayes. It soon becomes clear the new casino is bustling with shady types willing to lose it all, the glitzy shopping centres are rife with shoplifting and the gaudy nightlife is still full of corruption and drugs.
The Casino (Crime & mystery)Iain Ryan$34.99
  • Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse.
    A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only catch- she has some. . . unusual tastes.
    As he prepares delicious dishes - fresh crab salad with a panko crumb, lamb shank dripping in red wine juice, sweet, fluffy souffle pancakes - he realizes that each meal is a test, a challenge to satisfy an insatiable appetite.
  • Caught up in a world more sinister than he could ever have imagined, Ed finds himself entangled in another debt.
    As the stakes grow, he must make a choice.Will he stay hungry? Or will he be greedy?
    Dinner is served.Eat Up.
Greedy (Thriller / suspense) Callie Kazumi $34.99
  • You're the love of Esther's life. You just don't know it yet...
    Esther first sees Ted walking in a park in London. They lock eyes and for a fraction of a second, she feels something she's never felt before.
    She starts by reading up about his life in Canada and his work as an actor. Then she watches every interview with him online. It isn't long before she's joined Ted's fan site online where her and the 'Tedettes' stalk his every move.
    When Ted gets a new celebrity girlfriend, Esther decides that things have gone far
  • enough. She leaves her husband, takes all their savings, and buys a one-way ticket to Canada.
    After all, Ted might not know it yet, but they are meant to be together - he just needs a little bit of persuading...
Esther is Now Following You (Thriller / suspense) Tanya Sweeney $34.99
  • The Sisterhood Rules-
    1. Never let a man come between you2. Share all your secrets3. Live life to the fullest - girls just wanna have funFor twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy's husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister's betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters' problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there's a will -
  • he'd clearly like to be in it.
    Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past?
The Sisterhood Rules (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kathy Lette $34.99
  • Once a fearless SAS hero, Andy 'Deadman' Bird now battles the harsh streets of London after a catastrophic mission stripped him of his hearing, career, home, and marriage. His only solace is Tyson, his fiercely loyal and battle-tested dog. When fate thrusts them into the path of a chilling alleyway murder, Andy and Tyson become the next targets. Who are these relentless hunters, and what dangerous secrets are they willing to kill for? Desperate and cornered, Andy reaches out to his former brothers-in-arms - a team who owe him their very lives. But as they unravel a sinister web of organised crime and deadly political plots, who will be saving who this time?
Underdogs (Thriller / suspense) Stephen Leather $34.99
  • When a woman’s body is found lying in the grass, DS Roberta Steel must put her own problems aside and uncover the truth . . .
And The Corpse Wore Tartan (Crime & mystery) Stuart MacBride $32.99
  • Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel.
    Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside the beach cabana.
    At first it appears to be a clear suicide, but Ormond Basil, an out-of-work actor best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes in his glory days, suspects foul play.
    Accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the big
  • screen, the other guests enlist him to solve the mystery. But can he do it before the killer strikes again?
The Final Problem (Classic crime) Arturo Perez-Reverte $34.99
  • Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he’s ever known, and all he thinks he ever will. In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible love affair. Increasingly drawn to the Church, she sets out to join the new revolutions of sex and faith. Decades later, Margaret is being cared for by her grandson who has just discovered the strange truth of his family history. So begins a story of forbidden love and ardent faith, of devotion and sacrifice, as the consequences of this unlikely union play out across the generations.
A Private Man (Modern & contemporary fiction) Stephanie Quia $34.99
  • A woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey through the country of her father's birth. She yearns to be outside time - untethered and alone - but she soon becomes immersed in the stories resonating all around her.She visits a museum and stares into the oversized, disco-ball eyes of an insect, unsettled by the intimacy, 'like looking into the facial pores of a lover'. Later, she will tiptoe through the snow to find a portrait of James Baldwin on the window shutter of a chalet, his features rendered in rows of silver staples shot into timber.She will find traces of Mary Shelley and Fleur Jaeggy; android pioneers in eighteenth-century Neuchatel; Charlie Chaplin, Patricia
  • Highsmith, and striking workers drilling through the earth to create the vast Gotthard Tunnel; Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary as they summit Everest; Lenin and the Dada artists in early twentieth-century Zurich.
On Not Climbing Mountains (Modern & contemporary fiction) Claire Thomas $32.99
  • What happened to the dog walker who found the body?
    Glasgow, 1979.
    Twelve-year-old Janey won't take her dog, Sid Vicious, for a walk. Not anymore. It's Sid's fault she found the murdered woman.
    Janey claims she can't remember what she saw at the abandoned railway, but the police think she's hiding something. And they're not the only ones interested.
    Fear and rumour rip through the tight-knit community of Possilpark. Janey and her nana, Maggie, are dragged into the hunt for a
  • murderer. And Maggie's struggle to keep her beloved granddaughter safe becomes ever more desperate.
    Because Janey's memories can't stay hidden forever.
    And neither can the killer...
A Bad, Bad Place(Crime & mystery)Frances Crawford$34.99
  • Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson must divide and conquer when they're sent to investigate two serious crimes.
    In Washington DC, John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a street and calls in the bomb squad for a suspected terrorist attack.
    In North Carolina, Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student - his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father's footsteps made Damon a target?
    From FBI headquarters to police stations, airplanes to murder scenes, the detectives
  • track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart.
    It will take more than distance to weaken their unstoppable partnership.
Cross & Sampson(Thriller / suspense)James Patterson$34.99
  • The Cornish coast. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages.
    Isabel has always been a woman of mystery. As a child of four, she appeared on the Cornish shore, soaking wet, unable to speak. The villagers believed she was brought from the sea, the daughter of a spirit.
    Now, newly widowed, Isabel feels the ocean calling her to come back home.
    And when Jack Carlyon, an injured smuggler, crosses her path, she is swept up into a love story that will test her courage, her reputation, and her heart. Jack plays a dangerous game, and there are those that
  • would hang him if they knew what he was. Isabel fights to make sense of the magical pull of the ocean and wants to protect Jack – but at what cost?
    She is a daughter of the sea. He is a man of the land. Can they overcome the odds to be together?
The Sea Child(Historical fiction)Linda Wilgus$49.99
  • Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes to light, he wins his appeal for a retrial.
    Detective Inspector Pat North is assigned to the reinvestigation. But when North discovers that her partner, Detective Superintendent Mike Walker, led the original police inquiry, their fledgling relationship is put to the test - particularly when she starts to suspect that he is covering something up.Could Walker have tampered with evidence to frame an innocent man? And if so, who is the real killer?
Appeal(Crime & mystery)Lynda La Plante$32.99
  • Every morning before sunrise, Lim Ah Hock opens the shutters of his small kitchen on Carpenter Street, lights an incense stick and prepares the best laksa soup in all of Kuching. According to Lim family legend, the laksa's secret ingredient - their ancestral broth - was gifted to them by a deity, who promised the family prosperity as long as the broth is passed down through the generations.
    But Ah Hock is aging, and the broth's quality is fading. His only son, Wei Ming, has no interest in the family business, having spent eight years in Hong Kong trying to prove himself as a chef. Now, he's struggling with gambling debts, embroiled in a love triangle,
  • and the restaurant he's been left to run has lost its Global Restaurants Guild star.
    Invited home to Malaysia for his father's 60th birthday, Wei Ming sees a chance to escape his troubles. But when old conflicts resurface and a local businessman threatens to destroy the family legacy, father and son are forced to ask themselves what truly matters.
Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe(Modern & contemporary fiction)Janet Tay$34.99
  • There's a killer inside all of us...
    After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychologist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able to step inside the darkest minds to uncover whatever secrets lie hidden there and, soon enough, he finds himself drawn into the murky world of murder investigation.
    In the beautiful hills of County Mayo, Ireland, a killer is on the loose. Panic has a stranglehold on its rural community and the Garda are running out of time. Gregory has sworn to follow a quiet life but, when the call
  • comes, can he refuse to help their desperate search for justice?
Impostor(Crime & mystery)LJ Ross$34.99
  • A stunning discovery.Courtney Gray's tranquil family vacation is shattered when she hears a blood-curdling scream from the lakeside cottage next door. There she finds the lifeless bodies of her brother and sister-in-law. Her teenage niece Reese is nowhere to be found, while her nephew Wyatt lies asleep upstairs, unharmed.A shocking investigation.As the police descend on the quiet resort town, disturbing secrets about Courtney's family start to emerge. When she learns that the town has secrets of its own, it makes her wonder if Reese is another victim in a brutal crime or if she's the killer.A truth no one could have imagined . . .
  • As Courtney begins to unravel the terrible mystery, she realizes that everyone around her has something to hide. And the closer she gets to the truth, the harder it is to see . . .
It's Not Her(Thriller / suspense)Mary Kubica$32.99
  • It's 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion magazine she once thought would be her ticket to becoming a respected editor-in-chief. But after being told one too many times by her boss that ‘Black girls don’t sell magazines’, she quits to take over Sugar, a struggling hip-hop music and lifestyle magazine with untapped potential.
    Thrown into an entirely new world of wealth, decadence and debauchery, Nikki has just six months to save Sugar – and her own dreams. As she pulls all-nighters at the office and parties with New York City’s most influential bad boys, Nikki must prove she has what it takes to lead. But her most
  • dangerous challenge is evading Alonzo Griffin, her married, powerful ex-lover and former boss, who is determined to destroy both her and Sugar.
    Determined not to be beaten, Nikki leans on a circle of loyal friends and navigates unexpected romances that force her to reckon with what – and who – she truly wants.
If I Ruled the World(Modern & contemporary fiction)Amy DuBois Barnett$34.99
  • For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They don’t want a ransom – they want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth, a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centres, and prisons.
    But the revolutionaries get a shock when they bundle Adeline into their van. She’s about to go into labour. And she may not object to being kidnapped, if it allows her and the baby to escape her despotic parents.
  • It quickly becomes apparent that this is no ordinary child. He’s capable of setting off deadly weather events and summoning plagues of vermin. And that’s just the beginning. Luke discovers that Adeline’s parents engineered the pregnancy as part of a dark bargain with an ancient evil of nearly limitless power. Now the Woolsaws and their henchmen will stop at nothing to get the infant back, so they can establish an infernal new kingdom on Earth with their grandchild on the throne.
The CaptiveNed Beauman$42.99
  • Carwyn and Rhian - the last in a long family line of sheep farmers - are living out a brutal year in their hillside farm, deep in the mountains of Eryri, North Wales. When Carwyn stumbles across a stone circle and some sort of burial mound in one of the fields on their land, he quickly develops an obsession. His wife, Rhian, meanwhile, is confronted with the growing realization that the man with whom she shares her life and home is slowly becoming a frightening stranger. As the harsh mountain winter closes in, Rhian finds herself alone with her increasingly peculiar husband, the mountains, and the looming megalithic stones . . .
The Hill in the Dark Grove(Modern & contemporary fiction)Liam Higginson$34.99
  • It's a beautiful day to be alive, Bill Dickerson thought, seconds before he tumbled from the viaduct onto the jagged rocks below . . .
    His awful death made national news. But still, one year on, Bill's widow Carol has received no explanation about what happened. Was it suicide? An accident? Maybe murder?
    So Carol hires lawyer Ryan Bradley in her fight for justice. Ryan has just returned to the remote town of Nashville after ten years away, so he's in no position to turn down work.
    Except the case seems hopeless from the
  • start. Bill's employer is denying responsibility, Carol's friends are shunning her, and the only witnesses - co-workers Gav Coates and Wati Reynolds - can shed no light on the tragic fall. Even Senior Sergeant 'Stinger' Nettle is too busy turning a blind eye to Wati's illegal schemes to dig deeper into the death.
    But in small towns, nothing is quite what it seems. And for one Nashville resident the wrong question will come at a deadly price . . .
The First Law of the Bush(Thriller / suspense)Geoff Parkes$34.99
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