Australian Police

I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game.... Boasting the biggest beats in the world - some as large as France - Australia's outback police have seen it all: natural disasters, incredible acts of selflessness, unspeakable crimes and daring rescues, just to name a few. And they've met some unforgettable characters along the way: from the murderer who stuffed his victims' bodies down wombat holes to the policeman who arrested his own wife....

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.

Officer Lucy is panty-melting hot, but I can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Can I really trust her? When Sarah follows her best friend to live in the big city away from the small outback down they had both called home their entire lives, Sarah quickly learns about the perils of city living. Her first night she witnesses a police drug operation that will change the course of her life forever. Officer Lucy attends her colleague Officer Daisy’s (of Protecting Her fame) house party to find herself face-to-face with the gorgeous femme witness of a crime she has been ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

She was sent to sign off on an accident. She uncovered an outback noir murder worth $200,000. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes — a female detective with a reputation for cutting through lies — arrives in Andamooka expecting routine paperwork. A miner has died in a tunnel collapse, common in opal country where fortunes are clawed from unstable shafts beneath the South Australian desert. But Barry Mitchell’s death wasn’t bad luck. Someone set charges to bury him. And Kate knows why: an opal strike worth $200,000, hidden for twenty‑five years. Mitchell’s former partner and ex‑...

Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat. The city is unsettled. Winter won't leave. Soldiers are returning from the Front with broken bodies and troubled souls. And now a powerful board governor has been found dead in the Art Gallery - dumped beneath a scandalous nude painting that has attracted both pious outrage and record crowds.

The plane crashed forty years ago. The body inside died yesterday. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes — a female detective with a reputation for unearthing the truth — is called to a remote crash site near Coober Pedy. She expects wreckage and old bones. What she finds is a fresh corpse — a man in a 1980s RAAF flight suit, carrying ID for a pilot declared dead in 1984. The plane’s been buried in red dust for decades. The victim was alive until now. Someone kept him that way. As Kate digs into military records and classified files, she uncovers buried secrets tied to a Cold War programme ...

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 ...

The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name, wrangling wayward husbands, seeing through deceptive clairvoyants, and rescuing young women (whether they like it or not) with the help of a five-foot cane and her sassy junior constable, Ethel Bromley. When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, Miss Cocks and Ethel are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Dora's workmate goes missing soon after, the women suspect something sinister.

Jenny Williams became a cop and moved to the middle of nowhere to solve a family mystery. Now, the case surrounding her cousin has been closed, she realises she can’t go back to city life. She loves the quirky locals, the outback policing and most of all, she’s in love with local station owner Nick Johnston. Juggling her work and farm life is proving difficult, but when a weekend on the cattle property turns into official police business, Jenny finds herself desperately searching for the owner of an abandoned vehicle.

Two faces glimpsed on TV – one a Victim one a Killer. A fisherman finds a head in a crocodile infested waterhole They call him Crocodile Man – who is he? And who is she – the woman with him before he died? She holds her lover’s diary. Its contents terrify her, What awful tale does it tell? She must read it to discover. Unable to do so she hides it away. Others think they know. BRAZEN ENGLISH HUSSY, tabloids scream. ‘ Killed her lover, fed his body to crocodiles. Brought back to Australia, charged with murder. But what really happened on that fateful day?

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now, more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead.

“No one does suspense better.” —Stephen King Ambitious young London police officer Philomena McCarthy returns in this propulsive thriller by the author of When You Are Mine. Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father 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 drought-stricken Warragulla, where parched paddocks and cracked earth mirror the town's hidden fractures, Detective Maya Thorne investigates the poisoning of beloved publican Albert Whitcombe. What begins as an isolated murder quickly reveals deeper currents when Maya discovers Whitcombe planned to publish a memoir exposing the town's darkest secrets. When evidence connects the murder to a fifteen-year-old hit-and-run that killed a teenage boy, Maya must navigate small-town silence and the powerful influence of the Langley family, who've shaped Warragulla's narrative for generations. As ...

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.

Detective Jason Farrell had been enjoying a fairly quiet time of it lately. Crime seemed to have been under control in his corner of Kingsbrook, New South Wales. But then all Hell brakes loose. The brutal murders of two people close to him throw out questions to which no answers can be found, and along with it a decades old family feud brings a sectarian conflict from the other side of the world to the streets of Kingsbrook. Farrell and his team will need all they've got and more if justice is ever going to be served.

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. ...