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 - ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

“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...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Claremont”, an outdated, run-down apartment building, is thrown into turmoil when its latest and most celebrated resident, Crispin Fairchild, conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, is found murdered. His eccentric neighbours and members of the orchestra appear saddened by his death but are they? Is one of them his killer? These are questions Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn asks himself when he takes on the case and unearths not only the innermost secrets of those who knew Crispin, but the enigma that surrounds him.

#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...

A powerful vigilante hell-bent on cleansing society. A dogged detective struggling for justice. Whose vision for the future will prevail? The horrific murder of a prominent businessman plunges D.I.Mahoney and his squad into a race against time to apprehend a killer determined to eradicate any 'dead wood' in the Tasmanian economy. John Mahoney must call upon all his fortitude, analytical skill, and investigative resources if he is to stop the assassin before this barbaric vision is fully enacted. DEAD WOOD is the second instalment in the D.I.Mahoney crime fiction mystery series. If your ...

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 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.