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Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the "rabbit-proof fence" in the wheat belt of Western Australia. There is no sign of its owner. Has George Loftus simply decamped, for reasons of his own? Or was it murder? Bonaparte suspects the worst and is determined to find the body - and the murderer.

 

This novel is filled with Upfield's own philosophy about what creates murderers. We also find out a lot about Aboriginal tracking methods, as well as more information about Bony's family background. - Mysteries in Paradise

Mr. Jelly sammelt Fotos von Mördern. Die Wände seines Zimmers sind voll davon.
Mehrmals im Jahr verreist er. Ganz plötzlich. Und niemand weiß, warum.
Mick Landon kommt schließlich hinter Mr. Jellys Geheimnis.
Doch er kann nicht mehr erzählen, was er entdeckte.

A half-naked body of a girl is discovered on a driveway. A young man researching the defection to Australia of the Hungarian Olympic team in 1956 is having trouble with his love life. An old man living alone with his cat discovers hidden clues...

Set in Melbourne in the 1950s and the present, this crime novel was inspired by an unsolved murder in Mt Martha in 1953. Historically accurate in the details, it blends social commentary with character development and resolution.

In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen - all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child vanishes, and the mother is found dead next to the empty cot. Inspector Bonaparte is called in, first to find the missing children, and only then to solve the murder...

 

Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives. - BBC

One story. Twenty writers. Your choice.

 

Murder You Wrote: An Interactive Mystery is a choose-your-own-investigation murder mystery set in remote Tasmania, a world of stunning beauty, dark history and deadly creatures.

You are a retired police detective invited to speak at a crime fiction writers festival. You are looking forward to a weekend with some of Australia's bestselling authors.

You're staying in a convict-built country manor house along with five other guests of the festival. The other guests don't exactly get along.

You awake to discover the homestead is cut off. Overnight, storms flooded the only road out, the internet is down... and a world-famous writer is missing.

You discover his body in the library.

Certain that one of the four remaining guests was responsible for his death, you decide to investigate.

Which suspect will you interrogate first?

Which clues will you follow?

Can you solve the case?

 

Contributors: Alison Alexander, Sarah Barrie, Karen Brooks, Jack Cainery, R.B. Cole, Alan Carter, Natalie Conyer, Craig Cormick, E.K. Cutting, Livia Day, Jo Dixon, Jacq Ellem, Jason Franks, Narrelle M. Harris, Carys King, Angela Meyer, Allison Mitchell, David Owen, L.J.M. Owen, Matthew D. Ruffin, E.V. Scott, Marion Stoneman, Maggie Veness, Sarah White, and Z.E. Davidson

 

Appealing to mystery lovers everywhere, purchasing this criminally good book supports the mentoring of new writers and literacy for adults.

A bankrupt husband, a dead body, and a copy more sexy than the legal limit.

Just when Ellie Cummins is free to shed her corporate wife image, she finds the body of a young woman in an apartment she’s been hired to re-design. Her fledgling business depends on this contract, so she tries to ignore the long-buried grief the trauma exposes.

When Ellie learns her daughter has a personal connection to the victim, and the police have no leads, she and friends Cass and Kandy decide to investigate the murder. But Brisbane’s alleyways are dark and their detective skills dubious, so how far will they go for justice?

Kandy once lived a hard life on the streets, but will uncovering her husband's secret life destroy all she’s achieved since then?

Is solid, dependable Cass as content with her life as she seems?

And is the cop who responded to their call more interested in Ellie than the investigation?

For the three friends, it's a time of change and self-discovery. And the realisation that life, like love, doesn’t play fair.

Tales of love and lust between heroic men of the human and no-so human kind.

Kerry Greenwood's take on a host of myths, legends and fairy tales are all imbued with a wonderful sense of time and place.

There may be vampires, minotaurs, wolves, selkies and wizards in these pages but they all add up to a wonderful collection of happy-ever-after male-male love stories.

The third in a 3-book series, following Herotica: Adventures in Love & Time vols 1 and 2. Mytherotica explores myth and legend in 23 stories of adventure, romance, lust, and above all love.

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.

Glory is a rock chick. She's fierce. From a distance, she keeps seeing a gorgeous woman with fantastic hair.

Ness is a hairdresser. She was named for the Loch. She's been admiring the lead singer of Glory Be for ages.

Fate keeps preventing them from meeting, until the night of the yarnbombing in Melbourne's Treasury Gardens - a night that knits their lives together.

Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last three years of his life, and his extraordinary battle with the tracker, Bul-Bul, brought in by the Northern Territory police in a final desperate attempt to put an end to Nemarluk's fight.

Ion L. Idriess had already brought Lasseter and Flynn to the public's attention with his action-packed stories. He had first-hand knowledge of the courage of Nemarluk and wanted to immortalise the man he called the King of the Wilds.

'Jack [Idriess] understood the depth of Nemarluk's hatred for the Japanese and the white intruders who had come, unasked, into his people's tribal lands of which he was chief. It was not only Nemarluk's desire to protect his people and their lands from the invaders, it was also his obligation and duty.' - Beverley Eley, biographer of Ion L. [Jack] Idriess

Vampires and other ravenous nasties satisfy their bloodlust in this dark collection of horror stories.

Louise Davitt, a young Australian anthropologist, and Zeno Wolde, an Ethiopian doctor and fellow anthropologist, research and explore isolated villages and tribal lands in Ethiopia, making fascinating discoveries about the people, the environment and themselves. While working for reform to lift poor peasants out of poverty, they fall in love and marry then have a child. Zeno's work takes him away from home for long stretches of time, then he disappears. Louise visits family in London and is diagnosed with HIV, contracted from Zeno. With effective management and drugs, Louise copes with her serious illness and its stigma - a stigma that at the time in Ethiopia and Kenya, made it impossible for Zeno to seek appropriate treatment. She meets a Norwegian doctor, Haawkon Davos, and builds a new career with its reach and compassion for people with HIV/AIDS, especially across Africa.

'A moving tale of cross-cultural endeavour dealing with problems that for millions of people are all too real. Rees' knowledge of this complex world is evident; his compassion for the powerless shines through.' - Cate Kennedy - author of Sing and Don't Cry: a Mexican Journal

'No Witness, No Case' is about dirty business and dirty politics, greed, corruption and a callous disregard for the environment, the law and the community.

A black waste scam is concealed within a legitimate waste business; the business owner is in league with the Mafia; the owner's son is a corrupt and ruthless politician; and the Russians are trying to muscle their way in and oust the Mafia.

It is a fast paced story with memorable characters; some you will love, some you will love to hate.

Five years after a serial killer nearly put an end to Duo Ex Machina, Frank and Milo are still dealing with the aftermath, which includes a breakdown and the derailing of their career. But they’re still together, still in love, and still making music.

 

A new album is out, and Frank is producing too, helping former pop princess Gabriella Valli relaunch her career. Maybe this will be the comeback they’ve been looking for.

 

Or it could be, if the mysterious letter-writing Number One Fan doesn’t turn out to be dangerous as well as obsessed.

Tully's great-great uncle Michael was hanged for murder more than a century ago. According to family lore, he was attacked in a pub - accused by his attacker because as an Irish immigrant he was taking work from locals. At a time when anti-Irish prejudice was rampant during an economic depression, he never stood a chance of justice.

 

The bare bones of the story are more or less 'true' but have been fleshed out using the author's imagination. Michael's family emigrated from County Donegal in Ireland to Tyneside in northern England sometime in the 1890s. They had planned to go to America but their ship never turned up in Cork. The title, On an Alien Shore, is taken from James Horsley's poem 'An Emigrant's Sigh'.

 

Although these sad events took place long ago, the themes are very relevant today, with so many refugees, asylum seekers, 'economic migrants' and resurgent racism.

 

"On an Alien Shore presents a vivid background of the poverty and squalor of late 19th century Tyneside with its slums, its appalling working conditions, its pubs and prisons. Against this background plays out a well-told story of romance, family love and pride. It is in marked contrast to most period melodramas because of its emphasis on the empowering role of the union movement. Most of all, On an Alien Shore stands as an indictment both of unthinking racial prejudice and of laissezfaire capitalism. In both these regards it is not only an insight into history, but a monitory tale for today." - Tim Thorne

Are some things better left unfound?

Best friends Louise and Emma grew up next door to each other in a grim inner-city suburb of Dublin.

Now Louise, an art conservator, is thousands of miles away in Sydney, restoring a beautiful old painting. She meets Dan, whose family welcome her as one of their own, but she will always feel lost until she finds her mother who walked out when she was just eight years old.

Back in Dublin, Emma is stuck in a job where she is under-appreciated and underpaid, but her biggest worry is her ex-partner, Jamie. Emma has lost so much because of Jamie: her innocence, her reputation, almost her life. Now she is at risk of losing Isla, her young daughter.

So where is Louise's mother? Will Emma ever be free of her ex? Both women frantically search for answers, but when the truth finally emerges it is more shattering than they had ever expected.

Praise for Ber Carroll:

'I enjoyed every page of this touching, authentic novel.' - LIANE MORIARTY

'Ber Carroll has a clever eye for characterisation and story.' - CATHY KELLY

'With all the humour and empathy of Binchy... Carroll captures the conflicts and compromises women make.' - DAILY TELEGRAPH