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    Coorparoo Blues and the Irish Fandango

    Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds...
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    Get Rich Quick
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    Get Rich Quick

    Winner of three Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Fiction. It's Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy Glasheen is trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he's a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios - whether it's a gambling...
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    The Devil's Jump

    August 1945.The Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate - his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he's on the run from criminals and the...
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  • The Bone Road
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    The Bone Road

    Can anyone outrun their past?On a mountain road in the Balkans, former Olympic cyclist Heather Bishop and her journalist boyfriend Richard race each other for fun. But when Richard disappears around a bend in the road, Heather cycles after him only to...
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  • Of Blood Descended
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    Of Blood Descended

    Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII's court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king's late 'black trumpet', John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is...
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  • The Devil's Blaze
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    The Devil's Blaze

    London, 1943.Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the...
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  • A Study in Crimson
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    A Study in Crimson

    LONDON, 1942.A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...
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  • The Edinburgh Skating Club
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    The Edinburgh Skating Club

    When you look at a painting, what do you really see?When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they...
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  • Thirty-One Bones
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    Thirty-One Bones

    When Effie Coulston drops dead on the floor of her bar in a small Spanish town mid-business meeting, her daughter Daniella feels it's her duty to return for the funeral. But Daniella has been estranged from her mother for over twenty years, and Effie's...
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  • Jeremiah's Bell
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    Jeremiah's Bell

    When rich American hotelier Alice Wenger arrives in Kinloch, some eyebrows are raised and memories are rekindled. Meanwhile, the secretive Doig family live a solitary existence on a remote part of the Kintyre peninsula, without even the basic amenities...
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  • Dark Suits And Sad Songs
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    Dark Suits And Sad Songs

    When a senior Edinburgh civil servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch harbour, DCI Jim Daley comes face to face with the murky worldof politics. To add to his woes, two local drug dealers lie dead, ritually assassinated. It's clear that dark...
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    Crow Court
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    Crow Court

    Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a vicious reputation-is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The...
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  • The Hot Beat
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    The Hot Beat

    A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years. Had LA's hottest bandleader...
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    Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde
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    Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde

    A deftly crafted, scintillating mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde encounter villains with unfathomable, terrifying abilities...1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered, trophies...
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  • Call Me A Cab
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    Call Me A Cab

    The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed. In 1977, one of the world's finest crime novelists turned his pen to...
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  • Together We Will Go
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    Together We Will Go

    Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to join him along the way. But this will...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors

    From the author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon another beautifully presented seasonal mystery. 1889. The First Terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's...
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    Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors
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    Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors

    1889. The First Terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's curse from four hundred years earlier? 1890. The Second Terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his...
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  • Quarry's Blood
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    Quarry's Blood

    The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final fight. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! At the very end of his bloody, clandestine career, the professional hitman known as Quarry...
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  • Suburban Dicks
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    Suburban Dicks

    Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four (soon to be five) children in West Windsor, New Jersey. But one day, a very-pregnant Andie pulls into a gas station-and...
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  • The City of Dr Moreau
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    The City of Dr Moreau

    A visionary new horror novel in the style of Wells' creepiest and most enduring fictions - a future history following the descendants of the Island of Dr Moreau In H G Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau a shipwrecked traveller finds himself...
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  • Two for the Money
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    Two for the Money

    After 16 years on the run, would Nolan bury the hatchet with the mob...or would they bury him first? They don't come tougher than Nolan - but even a hardened professional thief can't fight off the entire Chicago mafia. So when an old friend...
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  • After the Eclipse
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    After the Eclipse

    A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne.Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls.Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while...
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  • Tough Tender
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    Tough Tender

    Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins' veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and unavailable in stores for three decades. SOMETIMES...
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  • Double Down
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    Double Down

    It Takes a Thief to Take a Thief. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains-but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of...
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    Are Snakes Necessary?
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    Are Snakes Necessary?

    When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the...
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  • This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
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    This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a mind-blowing, gender-bending, genre-smashing romp through the entire pantheon of action and noir.In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A...
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  • All the Best Lies
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    All the Best Lies

    FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the...
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    Ms. Tree
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    Ms. Tree

    The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins! From the minds of author Max Allen Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fourth collection of 5 classic Ms Tree...
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  • Murder at the Bailey
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    Murder at the Bailey

    A notorious loan shark is shot dead, in broad daylight, right outside the front doors of the Old Bailey. The killer is arrested at the scene and Adrian Stanford is lined up to take on the toughest defence case of his career. Can he steer his client past...
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    Millennium: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Millennium: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

    From the bestselling novel series by Steig Larson comes this English translation of the phenomenal French comics adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikel Blomkvist is hired by a...
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    Sherlock
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    Sherlock

    Sherlock Manga - printed in English in the US for the first time!Adapting the episodes of the smash-hit TV series starring worldwide superstars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit). Holmes and Watson tackle brain-teasing...
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  • Warlock Holmes: The Finality Problem
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    Warlock Holmes: The Finality Problem

    Warlock Holmes is dealing with a jerk, who just so happens to be a stockbroker. There may be a link. He's also trying to hunt down some tokens to control something magical (it's all rather complicated), and Moriarty just won't stop taking over people's...
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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven

    A stunning collection of seven brand-new novellas featuring the redoubtable Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler Dr John Watson.A collection of seven brand-new novellas written by masters of the Sherlock Holmes pastiche, including Andrew Lane, author of...
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  • The Vinyl Detective: Low Action
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    The Vinyl Detective: Low Action

    Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a new girlfriend. Helene Hilditch - formerly known as Howlin' Hellbitch - of all-girl punk outfit Blue Tits is a mean guitarist, someone is trying to kill her.With a rare...
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  • The Vinyl Detective
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    The Vinyl Detective

    It's all Tinkler's fault. If it weren't for his obsession with the 1970s electric folk band, Black Dog, none of this would have happened. At the height of their success, the members of Black Dog invited journalists to Holy Island, a desolate island off...
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Spider's Web

    It is 1897, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a murder that took place during a society ball. Holmes and Watson rush to the scene, but are shocked by the flippant attitude of the ball's hosts: the wealthy Ernest Moncrieff and his new wife Gwendolen...
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  • The Final Child
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    The Final Child

    Erin and her brother Alex were the last children abducted by 'the Father', a serial killer who only ever took pairs of siblings. She escaped, but her brother was never seen again. Traumatised, Erin couldn't remember anything...
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  • Double Feature
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    Double Feature

    What's hidden behind the Silver Screen?In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend - well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the...
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    Charlesgate Confidential
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    Charlesgate Confidential

    An ingenious debut-novel unravelling the heist of the century, in 1946, 1986 and present-day BostonA group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get...
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  • Brothers Keepers
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    Brothers Keepers

    Can a monk on Park Avenue save his home from the wrecking ball? What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. 'Thou Shalt Not...
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  • The Vanishing Season
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    The Vanishing Season

    Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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