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The dry

Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)2017
Books, Manuscripts
Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering ...
[4 copies, 3 available]
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To the river

Wakefield, Vikki2024
Books, Manuscripts
When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann h...
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Murder in Williamstown

Greenwood, Kerry2023
Books, Manuscripts
When the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher receives threatening letters at her home, she enlists the unflappable apprentice Tinker to investigate. But as the harassment of Phryne threatens to spin out of control, her lover, Lin Chung is also targeted. Meanwhile, Dot begins to fear that her fiance, n...
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The way it is now

Disher, Garry2022
Books, Manuscripts
Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack - believed murdered. Her body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-...
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Cover the bones

Hammer, Chris, 1960-2024
Books, Manuscripts
A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are dealing with a vicious ...
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Resurrection Bay

Viskic, Emma2018
Books, Manuscripts
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up telltale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the kil...
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Murder town

Burr, Shelley2023
Books, Manuscripts
Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town's ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own. She knows her once charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. That three inno...
[5 copies, 4 available]
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Bad debts

Temple, Peter, 1946-2013
Books, Manuscripts
Jack Irish doesn't spook too easy. He's had guns pointed at him too many times - more often since he started hiring himself out as a debt collector - and he saves his nerves for the racetrack. So when he receives a phone message from an ex-client begging for help, he's inclined to ignore it. It's...
[1 copy, 1 available]
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Into the night

Bailey, Sarah (Australian author)2018
Books, Manuscripts
Senior Detective Gemma Woodstock is a small-town policewoman working on the biggest homicide cases in Melbourne. When an up-and-coming movie star is stabbed to death while the cameras are rolling on his new blockbuster, Gemma, eager to prove herself, is assigned to the case. With the whole thing ...
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Everyone on this train is a suspect

Stevenson, Benjamin2024
Books, Manuscripts
When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that di...
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