Category: Crime/Thriller
The Girl on the Train meets Before I Go to Sleep with a dash of Bridget Jones in this chilling tale of love gone horribly wrong ... Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.
The heart-stopping new book in the Cormac Reilly series, by the bestselling author of The Ruin and The Scholar. When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, his annoyance turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundle ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Martin Scarsden returns in the sequel to the bestselling Scrublands. For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping.He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherit ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that's the best thing to happen to you all week ... When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken - after ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: good
He was framed for murder. Now he needs someone on the outside to save him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no witnesses and no motive. Just the fact th ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work - welfare checks and working bees - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Fla ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
*** Memento meets Sharp Objects in this superb thriller from the bestselling author of Something in the Water, a 2019 Richard & Judy Book Club pick *** ' Original, ingenious and utterly gripping, with characters you'll really care about as they race towards the brilliantly unexp ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.
'A truly fine police procedural' - IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Utterly compelling' - JANE CASEY 'A superbly paced, engaging read' - WOMAN'S WAY BRILLIANCE CAN BE DEADLY . . . When Detective Cormac Reilly's girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene o ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
THE DEEP STATE - noun A covert state hidden within a government; a secret organisation of high-level operatives; exerts control through manipulation and a culture of pain and fear. *** Hayley Chill isn't your typical West Wing intern. Ex-military and as patriotic as she is principled, she is ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller.Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
Winner of the New Blood Dagger Award In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller.In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young ...Show more
