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For fans of Jane Harper's THE DRY, Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad, and C.J. Box's conspiracy thrillers. Three years after exposing Protocol Seven destroyed her career, Detective Inspector Kate Hayes thought the conspiracy was buried. She was wrong. When Dr Robert Ashford is found dead in his Adelaide Hills home, the staged suicide fools everyone except Kate. Ashford was a Protocol Seven witness—one of the few who testified and survived. Or so Kate believed. The USB drive Ashford left behind reveals the devastating truth: Protocol Seven wasn't the crime. It was the cover-up. For fifteen...

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 ...

Perfect for fans of CJ Box, Brad Thor, and Kyle Mills FBI profiler Alex Harlan has tracked the Ridge Line Trust's leadership to a fortified compound in the Appalachian highlands. After two books of investigation, he's finally within striking distance of the man at the top: Reese, the architect of decades of trafficking, corruption, and murder—including Alex's mother. Partnering with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Agent Diana Keller, who has her own reasons for wanting Reese dead, Alex plans an infiltration of the compound. But Reese's security is military-grade: thermal detection ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer When a savage winter storm batters the South Australian coast, Detective Jodi Brennan expects the usual aftermath—damaged boats, blocked roads, power outages. What she doesn't expect is for the tempest to expose human remains embedded in Wirramurra Bay's protective breakwater. Forensic examination reveals the victim as Melissa Hartley, a young woman who disappeared in 1987. What was dismissed as a missing person case becomes murder—and the investigation threatens to destroy Jodi's life in the coastal community she's come to ...

In the remote cattle country of Western Australia's Kimberley, where seasonal flooding transforms the landscape into a vast inland sea, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is summoned when rising waters uncover human remains near Warrigal Creek Station. What begins as the discovery of decades-old bones evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between historical water rights manipulation and powerful interests still operating today. When a station hand researching the same water dispute goes missing in suspiciously similar circumstances, Odie must navigate ...

In the ancient Singing Gorge, where sound travels in mysterious ways and sacred ceremonies have been performed for millennia, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to investigate when ethnomusicologist Dr. Simon Parker is found dead at the base of a cliff. What begins as a possible accidental fall evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between sacred ceremonial recordings and powerful academic, commercial, and political interests. When Odie discovers Parker's recording equipment is missing and evidence of a struggle at the cliff edge, he must ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher In the underground town of Coober Pedy, where eight hundred people live in dugout homes carved from red earth, water means survival. When the town's only water supply is contaminated, Detective Senior Constable Alex Reilly is called to investigate. What appears to be a routine water quality complaint becomes murder when Harold Finch, the town's water expert, is found dead in his underground laboratory. Toxicology results reveal deliberate poisoning. And someone has sabotaged the water supply that keeps the entire community ...

A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman. The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate. The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village?

A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen. Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother's murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed. The threads stretch back a long way, and now more people are dying in the search for the missing gold bars.

In the harsh beauty of Australia's Red Centre, where the sacred monolith of Uluru dominates the landscape, Detective Sarah Reeves is called to investigate when tourist Michael Foster is found dead at the base of the rock at dawn. What begins as a suspicious fall quickly reveals a tangled web of deception. The victim—a controlling Sydney accountant with a penchant for collecting others' secrets—was part of a close-knit group of six friends holidaying together at the luxury Sails in the Desert resort. As Sarah and her partner Tom Bradley interrogate the group, inconsistencies emerge in ...

Eight years buried. A drought that broke families. A killer who got away with it. When preserved remains surface at a luxury resort development in rural Australia, Detective Maya Thorne finds herself back in the region she fled as a teenager. The body belongs to Elaine Mercer, an environmental consultant who vanished while investigating how some properties were destroyed by drought — while others mysteriously thrived. Elaine had been following the water. Now Maya is too. The trail leads to a generations-old feud between two powerful families who've controlled this land for over a century....

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher When journalist Ellie Kaplan inherits a cottage in Khancoban from a great-uncle she never knew existed, her father's immediate demand to sell it sight unseen triggers her investigative instincts. What is he so desperate to hide? Inside the cottage beneath the celebrated Snowy Mountains Scheme, Ellie discovers decades of hidden documentation: journals, photographs, and scientific samples. Her great-uncle Nikolai Popov spent his life gathering evidence of a deadly secret—the deliberate exposure of migrant workers to uranium ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher Detective Jake Morrison's transfer to rural South Australia was supposed to be career purgatory. Then he finds a body in the abandoned shearing shed at Thornfield Station. Station manager Gareth Sullivan's death looks like a workplace accident—until Morrison notices the wool press handle that killed him has been wiped clean, and the body has been moved to cover up the crime. Someone at this isolated sheep station wanted Sullivan dead. Morrison's investigation uncovers layers of secrets at Thornfield: embezzlement from the ...

Russia and America face each other across the northern border of Afghanistan. World War 3 is about to break out and no one is backing off. And all because a team of academics in New York postulated how to extract the vast untapped mineral wealth of Afghanistan. Steve Case is in the middle of it, and his position is looking very precarious. Will the Taliban find him before the Americans get him out? Or is he doomed, as is the rest of the world?

In the drought-stricken Kimberley, where water means the difference between survival and ruin, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to a sacred waterhole where the body of water project engineer Michael Crawford lies half-submerged, surrounded by poorly staged traditional elements. What begins as a murder investigation evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between ancient underground water systems and generations of deliberate deception. When a second victim—environmental consultant Rebecca Palmer—is found at another sacred site, Odie must ...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A body buried to look like an ancient grave. A forged academic identity. A heritage fraud ring targeting the elderly across northern England. When retired Cambridge archaeologist Dr. Patricia Henley discovers a disturbed burial site near Grasmere, her expert eye immediately recognizes the deception. This is no Iron Age burial—it's a modern murder disguised to delay discovery. DI Tobias Stone identifies the victim as Margaret Ashworth, a respected manuscript authentication expert who lived quietly in nearby Rose Cottage. ...

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. ...

In the rugged gorges of the Kimberley, where blackened spinifex and red earth tell stories to those who can read them, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to investigate a body staged to resemble an animal attack. A wildlife photographer's death in a remote country quickly reveals darker motives. What begins as a suspicious death evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between rare goanna breeding grounds, vandalised rock art sites, and powerful interests opposing a new sanctuary. When Odie discovers hidden SD cards documenting systematic wildlife ...

Someone had once told Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne that some people were lucky and some weren't. Tremayne knew only one thing: the man lying dead in a pool of blood had qualified on the lucky after winning sixty-eight million pounds on a lottery ticket, but now his luck had run out. Tremayne knew the victim, Alan Winters; even knew his family. The man with all his new wealth had not hidden behind closed doors, fending off the scrounging relatives, the newly-found friends. That wasn't Winters's style. He had been out and about, driving expensive cars, living well.

Nobody liked Gloria Wiggins, a woman who regarded anyone who did not acquiesce to her jaundiced view of the world with disdain. James Baxter, the previous vicar, had been one of those, and her scurrilous outburst in the church one Sunday had hastened his death. And now, years later, the woman was dead, hanging from a beam in her garage. Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Clare Yarwood had seen the body, interviewed the woman's acquaintances, and those who had hated her.