this edition published in 2022 by Hachette Australia ISBN 978-0-7336-4815-1 390 pages #3 in the Cyrus Haven series  Synopsis (publisher) TWO MISSING WOMEN. ONE WITNESS. SO MANY LIES . . . The brand-new thriller by the number-one bestselling and award-winning master of crime Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide if he can forgive the man who destroyed his childhood. As he ..read more

This edition made available via my local library through Libby Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin eBooks (3 August 2021) Print length ‏ : ‎ 263 pages Book club questions   Synopsis (publisher) From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but a broken Aggie, too. However, Inti is not the woman she once was, and may be in ..read more

This edition an e-book from Amazon on Kindle ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09R41JFYN Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ultimo Press (1 June 2022) Print length ‏ : ‎ 266 pages Synopsis (Amazon)  ‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer apply.’   Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a new novel that begins in the Boston Public Library (BPL): four strangers; Winifred, Cain, Marigold and Whit are sitting at the same table when a bloodcurdling scream breaks the silence. A woman h ..read more

this edition published by Quercus 2021 made available by my local library 315 pages ISBN 978-1-52941-698-5 #1 of a new series? Synopsis (publisher) A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime. A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb’s northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies. Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood home ..read more

This edition made available through Libby by my local library First published: October 2016 Text Publishing, Australia Slaughter Park is the third and final book of the Belltree Trilogy. Length: 368pp ISBN: 9781925498905 Synopsis (author website) Harry Belltree’s obsessive pursuit of justice has cost him everything – his job in homicide, his marriage and his newborn child. He has nothing left to lose, or so he thinks. Then his estranged wife disappears, leaving their baby daughter behind. The police think she has murdered a man. Harry thinks she’s in danger. When severed limbs are found da ..read more

 this edition made available on Libby through SA Libraries Text publication date: 3 October 2016 ISBN: 9781925355444 #2 Belltree Trilogy Synopsis (publisher) Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree has a new posting. Away from Sydney, where he was nearly killed by a corrupt colleague and is now an embarrassment. Off to a quiet life in Newcastle. Or maybe not so quiet. A body’s been dug up on Ash Island. It may not be the only one. Harry’s got unfinished business in the area, too. The car crash that killed his parents and blinded his wife Jenny happened not far from Newcastle – and Harry kn ..read more

 this edition on Kindle (Amazon) ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LZ1U6IY Publisher ‏ : ‎ Text Publishing; UK ed. edition (September 23, 2015) Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 260 pages  #1 in the Belltree trilogy Synopsis (Amazon) Homicide detective Harry Belltree wouldn’t usually be looking too hard at an elderly couple’s suicide pact. Especially now, when his brother-in-law Greg has just been stabbed to death. But it seems Greg and the old couple had ties to the same man, a bent moneylender with friends in high places – and low. Harry can’t get officially involved in Greg’s murder, but ..read more

 this edition published by Ultimo Press 2021 ISBN 978-176115003-6 342 pages Synopsis (publisher) Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson’s wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s body, the whole town assumes it’s an open and shut case. But Jesse Redpath isn’t from Canticle Creek. Where she comes from, the truth often hides in plain sight, but only if you know where to look. When Jesse starts to ask awkward questions, she uncovers a town full of contradictions and a cast of characters with dark pasts, secrets to hide and even m ..read more

This edition published by Fremantle Press 2021 ISBN 9781925816570 333 pages #5 Cato Kwong series  Synopsis (publisher)  Detective Philip ‘Cato’ Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato’s experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain. Resourceful, multilingual, and hard as nails, Rory has been Canberra’s go-to guy when things get sticky in the Asia-Pacific. Now Rory wants o ..read more

this edition published by Affirm Press Australia 2021 325 pages ISBN 978-1-922626-10-3 Synopsis (publisher) In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic Australian suburb of Camp Hill. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance. When the police won’t listen, he takes matters into his own hands with the help of the missing girl’s father and a local neighbourhood watch group. But as dark secrets are revealed and consequences to past actions are faced, Tom learns that the only way out of the darkn ..read more