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The Death of a Mafia Don
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Michele Giuttari

The author spent much of his life as a policeman in Florence and is no doubt bringing that experience to bear on this novel of crime and suspected mafia retribution in that famous Italian city. Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara is the target of a bombi

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Blood's a Rover
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: James Ellroy

This is the final volume in what has been James Ellroy's seminal work on the American underworld. It is the time of dashed hope and political upheaval, with Kennedy and King both dead. Three men will be compromised by their attraction to the one woman.

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The Anniversary Man
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: R. J. Ellory

John Costello works as a crime researcher for a newspaper but otherwise leads a solitary, isolated life. This is the legacy of a shocking event in his life that ended with his girlfriend's death and unimaginable pain and sorrow for him. It is perhaps beca

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Hypothermia
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Arnaldur Indridason

Two years elapse between the death of her mother and Maria's own death, apparently by suicide, and the assumption is she never got over her mother's passing. The problem with this theory is that it is not at all clear that Maria did take her own life. Erl

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Truth
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Peter Temple

Although the author of many novels, it was The Broken Shore that brought Peter Temple very much to the attention of the general reading public. Truth is the follow-up to that astounding, internationally successful novel. Inspector Stephen Villani is in ch

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The Complaints
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Ian Rankin

On finishing this book, I corresponded with Ian and congratulated him on creating his new character, Malcolm Fox, who is interesting enough for this reader to hope he will be featured in future stories. Malcolm is the shining star in the Complaints and Co

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Death and the Running Patterer
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Robin Adair

It is 1828 in Sydney, Australia and Governor Ralph Darling enlists the help of Nicodemus Dunne to investigate the murder of one of the colony soldiers. Dunne is a “patterer”, a man who traverses the streets imparting the daily news. His work makes him perfectly placed to know all the colony’s secrets.

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Rain Gods
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: James Lee Burke

The action of this novel takes place in a small Texan town near the Mexican border. Sheriff Hackberry Holland had imagined he would have a quiet life in this place but when the bodies of nine illegal aliens are discovered, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a host of other interested parties descend on the town. Holland quickly realises that he has to be the one to uncover the truth before others fall victim to both the killer and the law enforcement agencies.

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Ice Cold
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Andrea Schenkel

This second novel by the author of The Murder Farm is set in Munich in the 1930s. Young women are quite literally being taken off the streets of the city, brutally abused, and then murdered. When a Party member is convicted of the crimes and executed, it is thought the horror has passed, but it seems not to be the case.

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Fever of the Bone
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Val McDermid

In this, the sixth novel to feature Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, the discovery of a badly mutilated teenager is the starting point for what appears to be random acts of violence against young people.

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Dark Mirror
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Barry Maitland

Since reading the first “Brock and Kolla” detective novel, The Marx Sisters, I have been eager to read each new book by Barry Maitland, and found this latest offering completely satisfying. DCI Brock and DI Kathy Kolla are called to the London Library where a woman has collapsed and died. Marion, the deceased, had been researching Victorian artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her death by arsenic poisoning bears a direct relationship to the subject of her research. When another person connected to Marion dies in similar circumstances, Brock and Kolla are faced with the pressure of uncovering the killer before more people meet the same fate. Barry Maitland has created credible characters who, with each new book, are evolving and maintaining their interest for this reader.

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Fear the Worst
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Linwood Barclay

Tim Blake is a divorcee trying to forge a new relationship with his daughter, Sydney. Whilst she is staying with him she starts a summer job at a local inn; or, at least, that is Tim’s impression. When she fails to return home one night and he begins to investigate, he finds that the inn has no record of her ever having been in their employ. It soon becomes apparent to Tim that others are also trying to find his daughter and he becomes desperate to be the first one to find her and keep her safe.

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If the Dead Rise Not
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Philip Kerr

Bernie Gunther is now working at the Adlon Hotel as Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games. Two bodies discovered in the hotel mean that Bernie will be confronted with the implications of the Nazi regime and, before the end of the book, the Cuban political landscape some twenty years into the future.

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Angel with Two Faces
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Nicola Upson

Josephine Tey has arrived in Cornwall for a much needed rest, staying at the home of her friend, Inspector Archie Penrose. However, when two local men die unexpectedly, both Josephine and Archie become involved in investigating the circumstances of these deaths. The “angel” of the title refers to the investigators’ sense that death is hovering over the village, waiting and watching to revisit old crimes and perpetrate new ones.

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The Price of Love
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Peter Robinson

Readers of Peter Robinson’s Inspector Alan Banks novels need not fear – this collection of short stories includes three that feature Banks, the last of which is a suitably tantalising nod to future novels with this character in the leading role. The other stories display Peter Robinson’s deftness at narrative style and his ability to embrace crime faction formats other than the police procedural.

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The Tower
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Michael Duffy

In central Sydney, a major new building is under construction and it is from this site that a woman has fallen and landed on the roof of a moving police car. Nicholas Troy, a twelve-year career police officer, now of the Homicide Squad, is called to the scene. So begins an intricate investigation that will have him fearing for his own life and questioning his own morality.

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The Stranger
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Max Frei

Originally published in Russian, this is the first book in the Labyrinth of Echo, a series acclaimed in the author’s homeland. Sir Juffn Halli is the head of the Department of Absolute Order in the city of Echo. He invades Max’s dreams and signs him on to become a secret agent.

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Suffer the Children
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Adam Creed

Detective Inspector Will Wagstaffe – “Staffe” – is due to be going on holidays when a call comes through that a known paedophile has been executed. So begins this dark and compelling book that introduces readers to Staffe. This particular crime will encroach on Staffe’s life in far more unsettling ways than merely interrupting his planned holiday.

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The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Michael Sims (ed)

Michael Sims is an acclaimed writer across a wide range of subjects and so brings a breadth of vision to this collection of stories that hail from the so-called gaslight era of Britain. It includes some authors not usually associated with crime fiction writing.

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Far Cry
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: John Harvey

A young girl`s disappearance in Cornwall is the beginning of a woman`s desperation at history repeating itself (it is the second time she has faced the loss of a child) and the struggle for a detective who is blinded by his certainty that a recently released criminal is to blame. I first came to read John Harvey when I discovered his ‘Charlie Resnick` novels, a suite of fine crime fiction writing and characterisation. He is a prolific writer across several genres and the recipient of many awards. I feel Harvey set the bar high for himself with the Resnick novels, and I am not sure that he reaches that same level in this most recent book, Far Cry, but I do know I would never miss reading a new novel by him.

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The Way Home
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: George Pelecanos

It is a decade since Chris Flynn was left at the gates of a juvenile prison by his father, a man determined that his son will pay for his actions. Settled into a new life, a burglary plunges him into the world of his past, with the people he met in prison. The unfolding story, with Washington D.C. as the backdrop, is a study in how life`s turns are unpredictable and, perhaps, unavoidable.

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The Alchemy of Murder
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Carol McCleary

Onto the world stage of Paris in 1889, amongst the excitement and activity of the world`s fair, comes Nellie Bly. She is a reporter, fierce feminist, and amateur detective. And, is ideally placed to track down a killer.

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Lovers
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: John Connolly

Now that his private investigator license has been revoked, Charlie Parker is working in a local bar but continuing to investigate a crime. This time, though, it is his own father`s death that he is looking into, a death that came after he had been accused of shooting two unarmed teenagers. The plot of this novel broadens out to encompass people (the lovers of the title) who are themselves intending to kill Parker.

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Shadow and Light
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Jonathan Rabb

The setting is Berlin between the two world wars. Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is called to investigate the death of a film studio executive. As much as the crime and its investigation are the focus, so too is Berlin. A city of energy, darkness, and political turbulence, it is as much this as the crime that involves the reader and takes him/her into a murky, troubled and troubling world.

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The Secret Speech
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Tom Rob Smith

Following on from the highly successful Child 44, Tom Rob Smith takes us even further into the deep dark depths of the post-Stalin Soviet Union. Leo Demidov, a former MGB officer, is being haunted by his past. His participation in violent arrests and beatings has made him some very powerful enemies. Now he is desperately trying to save his family from someone from his past – a journey which takes him from a Siberian prison camp to the Hungarian uprising. I recommend you read Child 44 first as it gives you a real insight into Leo and his background. Both are great reads!

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The End of the World in Breslau
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Marek Krajewski

Criminal Councillor Eberhard Mock is on the trail of a murder whose calling card is a torn page of a calendar with the date of the murder marked in blood.

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Dark Places
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Gillian Flynn

Libby Day is shocked when she realises there is a debate raging within a group of true-crime aficionados about whether or not her brother Ben was in fact responsible for the death of their parents. Having been instrumental in his successful conviction for the crime years earlier, Libby is sent on a tour of discovery back in time to their less than ideal youth.

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Stone`s Fall
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Iain Pears

This is the tale of John Stone who mysteriously falls out of a window to his death. Stone is a wealthy and influential man at the peak of his success when he dies in 1909 in London. The story unfolds in reverse, taking the reader back in time, from 1909 to 1867, and from London, through Paris, and into Vienna.

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American Rust
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Philipp Meyer

Buell is a small, working-class town in Pennsylvania. With the closure of the steel mill, the town has taken an economic downturn with devastating consequences. With the lack of job opportunities people are leaving for bigger and better things. When Billy Poe and Isaac English, two old high school friends, decide it`s time for them to try their luck elsewhere, they are caught up in an act of violence that will not only affect them but also the people around them. For anyone with a social conscience, this book is sure to hit a nerve.

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The Manual of Detection
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Jedediah Berry

Charles Unwin works as a clerk in the labyrinthine bureaucracy of a vast detection agency until he is mysteriously promoted to the role of detective after the murder of his supervisor. Quickly embroiled in a sinister plot involving carnival freaks, a spate of somnambulism, and the wholesale theft of the city`s alarm clocks, he must wade through a web of lies and obfuscation where dreams increasingly blur with reality. This dementedly surreal novel, told with deadpan humour, follows its own nutty logic through to an odd yet satisfying conclusion.

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