Australian Police Procedurals

Something is very rotten in the state of Tasmania. Brad Finch, the marquee player of the Tassie Devils Football Club, is the victim at the heart of a new murder mystery. Intense media interest, interfering superior officers and corrupt business interests all threaten to derail the homicide investigation conducted by the Serious Crimes Squad. Forensic analysis, dogged detective work and inspiration may prove insufficient in the search for the true perpetrators. The team must face unpalatable truths about the nature of professional sport and the exercise of power in modern Australian society....

Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders. For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

Over 120,000 words of Australian crime thriller brilliance. The complete Kate Hayes journey—six books, six years, one detective who refuses to let corruption win. For fans of Jane Harper, Tana French, and C.J. Box. In the unforgiving Australian outback, Detective Kate Hayes discovers a truth that will destroy her career: Protocol Seven, a government surveillance programme designed to eliminate threats and silence whistleblowers. Exposing it costs her everything. But Kate doesn't stop. This complete six-book series follows Kate's relentless pursuit of justice through: THE RED DESERT - ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer SIX BOOKS. ONE DETECTIVE. A COASTAL TOWN THAT WILL TEST EVERYTHING SHE BELIEVES ABOUT JUSTICE. Detective Jodi Brennan thought her transfer to Wirramurra Bay was punishment. After exposing corruption in Adelaide, she's been exiled to a windswept coastal town where limestone cliffs meet the Southern Ocean and secrets run deeper than the ancient aquifers beneath. She discovered it was destiny. POISONED GROUND Environmental conspiracy and corporate corruption threaten vulnerable farming families. When veterinarian Dr. Sarah ...

Six cases. Six corners of Sydney. One detective who won't let go. From Darlinghurst's dark streets to Bondi's golden sand, from harbour islands to beachside mansions — Natalie Campbell investigates the murders Sydney would rather forget. The bodies that surface where wealth meets water. The deaths staged as accidents. The secrets buried in million-dollar views. Follow Campbell's journey from rookie Homicide sergeant to seasoned inspector, solving cases alongside veteran Detective Gary Haddock — until the day she must lead alone. DARK STREETS (Book 1) A homeless man dies on Darlinghurst ...

Real-estate mogul Martin Cresswell-Smith is the best thing that has ever happened to Ellie. After her daughter’s devastating death, a divorce, and an emotional breakdown, he’s helped her move as far as possible from the grief, the rage, and the monsters of her past. Ellie imagines her new home with Martin in an Australian coastal town will be like living a fairy tale. But behind closed doors is another story - one that ends in Martin’s brutal murder. And Ellie seems almost relieved... Naturally, everyone thinks Mrs. Cresswell-Smith is guilty.

“Heath’s boundless imagination and singular voice have produced a truly unique thriller.” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author, on Hangman The shocking, fast-paced and queasily funny follow-up to Jack Heath’s international bestselling thriller, Hangman Timothy Blake...

An addictive debut thriller starring a FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment… A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It’s only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an...

Six gripping Australian Outback crime thrillers in one binge‑worthy collection. In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of Australia’s Red Centre, Detective Senior Constable Sarah Reeves faces the ultimate test of her investigative skills after transferring from Adelaide to Alice Springs. This complete six‑book series follows Sarah as she adapts her urban policing methods to the vast, isolated expanses of Central Australia — where evidence deteriorates in extreme heat, distances stretch for hundreds of kilometres, and cultural complexities demand a delicate approach to justice. From the...

A young woman is found dead in her isolated town house in rural Red Creek, an up-and-coming wine tourism destination outside Sydney. No forced entry. No signs of struggle. And her geologist husband has an alibi, though it’s not exactly solid. While a tabloid journalist is quick to spin her own damning narrative, homicide detective Rose Riley is questioning everything she sees—especially in a rapidly developing community that already seems on edge.

The death of Old Joe, a homeless man on Darlinghurst Road, seemed inevitable—until the autopsy revealed it was murder. Darlinghurst Road, once the beating heart of Sydney's red-light district, is where the past lingers in the shadows. However, the city's Eastern Suburbs are not known for bloodshed. When a second victim, an affluent woman from exclusive Point Piper, is found with her throat cut, the divide between Sydney's elite and its outcasts grows more sinister. Detective Gary Haddock has seen it all in Homicide, but even he is baffled by the lack of connection between the murders. ...

He calls it education. Kate Hayes calls it murder. Detective Kate Hayes has spent eighteen months rebuilding her career after the Protocol Seven scandal. Now, leading her first major task force, she faces a killer who poses his victims like art—strangled, positioned facing east, left in South Australia's remote salt lakes to mummify in the harsh desert air. All solo female travellers. All independent women who refused to be afraid. All murdered by a man who believes he's teaching them—and society—a necessary lesson about the dangers of freedom. When the killer contacts Kate directly, ...

A decade of drought reveals what water once hid. A family's darkest secret surfaces with the bones. When the eastern dam on Kanyaka Station dries completely after ten years of unprecedented drought, station hand Jack Morrison discovers human remains in the mud. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes is called to investigate what appears to be a decades-old murder in one of South Australia's most remote regions. The skeleton belongs to Tom Brennan, the youngest son of the powerful Brennan pastoral dynasty, who disappeared without a trace in March 1998. His family reported him missing, his car was ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller in Redemption Point. Watch “Redemption Point” as Troppo S2 available now on Prime Video! When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the...

Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake’s unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn’t have come at a worse time. Two years ago, a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation, and most importantly, his family. But now, Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake.

When a retired teacher is strangled with headphone cables at a small-town radio station, the broadcast reveals more than dead air—it exposes decades of calculated revenge. Detective Maya Thorne arrives at Warragulla's community radio station to find Eliza Mitchell dead in the broadcast booth, headphone cables wrapped around her neck. The station has been broadcasting silence all night—but the digital recording system captured everything. Eliza, 63, was planning to leave town with her boyfriend Michael, 26. Their thirty-seven-year age gap had divided the community, with some calling it ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer Detective Jodi Brennan's transfer to the isolated coastal town of Wirramurra Bay was meant to be punishment. After exposing corruption in Adelaide, she's been exiled to a place where limestone cliffs meet the Southern Ocean and everyone knows everyone's business. When veterinarian Dr. Sarah Kellerman is found dead in what appears to be suicide, Jodi's instincts tell her otherwise. Sarah had been investigating livestock poisoning across the region—and her notes reveal a pattern of deliberate environmental contamination ...

After the shocking murder of a high-profile celebrity, Gemma Woodstock must pull back the layers of a gilded cage to discover who among the victim's friends and family can be trusted--and who may be the killer. Troubled and brilliant, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock finds herself lost and...

Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted’s lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer.

In the parched landscape of Alice Springs, where unforgiving heat intensifies every human emotion, Detective Senior Constable Sarah Reeves is called to a motel room where a man lies dead from a point-blank shotgun blast. What begins as a seemingly random shooting rapidly escalates into a killing spree. The killer, Curtis Langford, is hunting for pieces of his missing prison cellmate, convinced that innocent victims have "absorbed" parts of his friend. When bodies begin appearing across town, Sarah must navigate the brutal mechanics of tracking a delusional killer and the failures that ...