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Tales of love and lust between heroic and adventurous men across the ages from Ancient Egypt to a future in space.

Kerry Greenwood's historical detail and sense of place and time sets the scene for a wonderful collection of happy-ever-after love stories.

The first in a 3 book series, Herotica will take you around the world in 36 stories of adventure, romance, lust, exploration, war and peace, and above all love.

Or as Kerry herself says: "Wonderful stories of gorgeous gay men shagging each other senseless in impeccable historical settings."

Kerry Greenwood - the creator of the fabulous Phryne Fisher - is also the author, for Clan Destine Press, of Out of the Black Land; the Delphic Women trilogy: Medea, Cassandra and Electra; and Salmancis.

Tales of love and lust between heroic and adventurous men across the ages from Ancient Greece and Troy to almost-modern times.

Kerry Greenwood's historical detail and sense of place and time sets the many scenes for a wonderful collection of happy-ever-after male-male love stories.

The second in a 3 book series, Herotica will take you around the world in 29 stories of adventure, romance, lust, exploration, war and peace, and above all love.

Or, as Kerry herself says: 'Wonderful stories of gorgeous gay men shagging each other senseless in impeccable historical settings.'

Kerry Greenwood - the creator of the fabulous Phryne Fisher - is also the author, for Clan Destine Press, of Out of the Black Land; the Delphic Women trilogy: Medea, Cassandra and Electra; and Salmancis.

For two very smart men, Elliot Talbott and Jack Burns can be mighty slow: hell, it took them a decade to realise they were perfect for each other.

When they start an investigation business, mayhem naturally follows.

Looking for ghosts, witches and the paranormal, what they find is crooks, real life and a heap of trouble.

It's a good thing they have each other as well.

I Got the Shit Car: On Father's Day in Australia in 2005, Robert Farquharson drove his car and three sons in a dam in country Victoria. The estranged husband and loving father was the only one to survive.

Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

Vikki Petraitis took to writing true crime because, unlike crime fiction, it was so raw and it told the story of real people, real grief, real loss, real horror.

A school teacher by day, Vikki had no idea that writing one book about one unsolved murder would give her a second career that has run alongside her chosen profession for 25 years.

She has researched, investigated and written about real Australian crimes, from the well-known to the obscure; and interviewed countless police, crime scene professionals, victims, survivors and families. She did ride-alongs with members of Victoria Police so she could learn about their most memorable cases, and found herself right there with them when a serial killer's third victim was found. Vikki spent time with the dog squad learning how the four-legged police officers are trained to work with their two-legged partners. And she's become biographer to two well-known former cops, and to one of the many victims of institutional child abuse. Her career as a true crime writer has resulted in 13 books and counting, with subjects and titles as diverse as The Frankston Serial Killer, Crime Scene Investigations, Forensics, Cops, Once a Copper: Brian 'the Skull' Murphy, and the one that started it all - The Phillip Island Murder.

Inside the Law is Vikki's life in crime; a collection of her favourite, personally influential, most memorable stories with a fresh narrative thread of the why, when and how she came to write them.

One spring morning a woman is found dead in a Brunswick alley adorned with symbols of the occult.

Catherine Kint, milliner, gin enthusiast and raconteur, has no reason to be involved until her friend is under investigation.

Armed with a sharp wit, a crime scene background and a barman named Boris, Catherine walks into a world of new age prophecies, curses and money.

Honestly, it would drive a girl to drink.

Two Melbourne TV journalists are on a well-earned holiday, travelling New Zealand in a motorhome. Will they survive a monster storm and a killer on the loose?

 

Kim Prescott survived a killer's bullet in Melbourne but can't shake the PTSD. For Jo Trescowthick the trip is a chance to confront family demons. The third in the Melbourne Spotlight series finds Kim and Jo on a road trip from Auckland on the north island to the tourist mecca of Queenstown in the deep south; Rotorua mud pools, Kaikoura whale watching, the stunning Marlborough Sounds. They won't make it.

 

Debt-ridden South Island fisherman and ex-con Gordie Tulloch is offered the deal of a lifetime. Is it legal? He doesn't care. All he has to do is survive the storm approaching the Shaky Isles. But Gordie's every move is under scrutiny by a man whose own secrete are about to spill into public view.

 

And then of course Mother Nature has her own agenda. Cyclone Gita is on a serpentine path of destruction through the tropics that will see her smash into New Zealand.

 

The cyclone, the motorhome, the fisherman, and the watcher all face an unexpected rendezvous in Kaikoura.

Bare Bones

Pixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things - usually dead things - and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive.

Killing Kindness

When Cuddles, a wannabe fashion designer and bakery shop assistant, trips over a dead hit-and-run victim at midnight she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous scam. She shares iced buns with a crippled drugs dealer known as Al Capone and meets a sexy undercover cop with attitude, but she also has a run in with a couple of nutters who want to kill her as she gets close to solving the murder.

More than 35 years after one of Australia's most baffling and brazen child abductions, journalist John Allin returned to Adelaide to talk with Greg and Christine Gordon.

In this compelling and deeply personal story, Allin tells how a simple but precious gift kept their daughter Kirste's disappearance high in his mind for so many years.

Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.

Frank and Milo were introduced in Fly By Night (1999), where they got caught up in crime for the first time - smuggling, murder and assault.

Five years later, on the verge of The Big Time, Frank and Milo were tangled up in murder and kidnapping again in Sacrifice (2004). The first consequence of Milo’s experiences was to out himself and Frank as a couple on national television.

In 2009, Number One Fan explores the full consequences of the events of Sacrifice - anxiety disorders and the derailing of their music career - as well as the new directions Frank and Milo are taking now. Crime still loiters in the wings, however, or a type more often seen in the music industry: a stalker.

So here we are in 2014, and Frank and Milo are still together, still in love, and with new challenges. They’d very much like to not be involved in any more violent crime, thanks. However, crime seems not to be quite done with them.

Rome's Burning is a five-piece band with its roots in the 13th century; a line of musicians gifted with the magic-wielding Minstrel Tongue. For hundreds of years, Rome's Burning and its forebears have used music to protect the world from vampires, trolls, zombies, ghosts, banshees, dragons, water demons and other denizens of the dark.

 

But after one hellish night in the suburbs of Budapest, Rome's Burning defeated a nest of vampires at a terrible cost; their lead singer and the love of his life are dead, Rome's Burning is no more.

 

The survivors retreat as far as they can - to Melbourne, Australia - to deal with their grief, decide on their future, find a new leader and, as tradition demands, a new name. Before any of that happens, however, these minstrel-warriors have to find out why the dead keep rising everywhere they go.

 

Everyone has secrets and some of them might explain what's going on.

 

Perhaps the key is in the hands of Kitty Carrasco, the Melbourne funeral home beautician who doesn't know the secrets of her own past.

 

Kitty and Cadaver is a story of grief, love, vampires, music, magic, secrets and the restless dead.

Five children held captive in an ever-changing forest, trapped by their own memory loss, face the battle of their lives to overcome evil and reclaim their birthright.

Why do they only have some memories for one day?

What is the purpose of the Three Moons' Song?

Which of their magical gifts will allow the children to conquer the riddles of the imprisoned mermaid, the chained eagle and the frozen dragon?

Adventure and danger abound as Lyla, Celeste, Lem, Chad and Swift face enchanters, murderers, shape thieves, monsters and slave traders to save all that is precious to them.

Families can be thorny, especially when the closet's full of skeletons.

It's 2019, and Frank and Milo are fulfilling a dream they only recently realised they had - fatherhood. But they're not only gaining a daughter - they're inheriting a some serious issues from little Lyra's extended family. Milo is also discovering his own family history isn't quite what he's been told. Parenthood. Always full of surprises...

With all this going on, they'd very much like to not be involved in any more violent crime, thanks.

However, crime is not quite done with them in the fifth and final book of the Duo Ex Machina series.

Little Star is the fifth and last book in Narrelle M Harris' Duo Ex Machina series, which includes Fly By Night and Sacrifice (nominees for the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel) and Number One Fan and Kiss and Cry.

Quiet, unassuming Meg Thorne is practically invisible. But this retired philosophy professor has plenty of opinions - like, why do people dismiss little old ladies as harmless?
Meg and her two friends, the tough-as-nails Dorothy Arden and the boisterous Lila Gatti, have decided to be a Force for Good with their Grey Ghosts Agency: because little old ladies can go undercover where other detectives can't.
Their new case is the infiltration of Sunnyvale Residential and Care Home to learn why their client's mother, Sara, is suddenly so afraid but won't talk. It's Meg's job to check into Sunnyvale for 'a short rest' and uncover the truth.
Meg will have to confront her own fears of ageing while also investigating why Sara's friend Jenny is being held in isolation, why an old enemy is popping up, what one of the other residents knows about the fate of Lila Gatti's disabled son, and whether the other residents are truly prepared for Meg's timely lecture on philosophy and responsibility.
Dangers lurk in Sunnyvale, but nobody counted on an unfolding global pandemic being one of them.
Will Meg be able to leave with the truth, or will she be trapped in a lockdown with those who mean her harm?

Mage Heart is the first in The Dion Chronicles

Provincial and naive - and the most powerful mage in the realm - young Dion Holyhands is an innocent adrift in a world of intrigues and treacheries; a world where foul, hungry demons lurking just beyond its borders.

And now she has been called upon to serve her Duke's favourite mistress: the extraordinary Kitten Avignon, Our Lady of Roses. The mesmerising courtesan is a woman in dire jeopardy, stalked by a fearsome necromancer who will not sleep until his beautiful prey suffers horribly and is destroyed.

And with Evil's night approaching, shielding the Lady and herself from harm will require every ounce of a power Dion is only beginning to recognise and fear; a great gift suddenly imperiled by blossoming womanhood and dangerous desire.

The Dion Chronicles: Mage Heart, Fire Angels and Aramaya