Australian Police Procedurals

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 - ...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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‑...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jenny Williams took a job as the new constable in an outback opal mining town, she thought she’d be hunting down clues to find her missing aunt and cousin. But when a young woman’s body is found at the bottom of a mine shaft, a possible murder forces her personal agenda to take a back seat. Jenny goes head to head with her new commanding officer. He doesn’t want to ruffle feathers in town and rules the case Death By Misadventure. But Jenny is sure the dead woman met with foul play.

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 ...

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 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.

When construction workers uncover preserved human remains at Kingfisher Station—a luxury resort development in rural Australia—Detective Maya Thorne is called back to the hometown she fled as a teenager. The discovery is eerily similar to a case she solved months earlier, but this time it's personal: the development borders her childhood home, which she abandoned. The victim is identified as Elaine Mercer, an environmental consultant who disappeared eight years ago while investigating water rights during the region's worst drought in decades. Maya quickly discovers that Elaine had ...

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.

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.

University professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study by the Post Graduate Co-coordinator, Vera Trenbath, a nosey interfering busybody. Assigned to the case is Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn. Fitzjohn is a detective from the old guard, whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic. His relentless pursuit for the killer zeros in on Alex’s brother, James, as a key suspect in his investigation. Compelled to clear himself of suspicion, James starts his own investigation and finds himself immersed in a web of intrigue, ultimately uncovering long ...

An enthusiastic crowd gathered at Lyrebird Lodge in the Blue Mountains on that crisp autumn morning, all anxious to acquire one of Florence Fontaine’s much sought after paintings. However, the only art on one visitor’s mind is the art of murder. Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn, unwittingly drawn into the case, launches his investigation that reveals a web of past and present jealousy, deceit and revenge, at a time when his own life is unravelling before his eyes. Meanwhile, Claire Reynolds, Florence’s business manager and organiser of the event, finds herself entangled in the ...