MY FAMILY AND OTHER SUSPECTS
Our reviewer, Liz Filleul, says this is one of the best books she’s read all year. Holly Jackson meets Agatha Christie in this cosy modern-day YA murder mystery where your family are your prime suspects.
Ruth Wykes
OPAL
DS Walker is back for the third in this series set in outback Queensland. Lucas and his half-sister are stuck in a mining town, cut off by a flood. And two people have been murdered.
wellworth
This debut novel is set in country NSW. Ally Williams is a math teacher who returns to her roots. Tangled roots of an institutionalised child.She wants to know. They want to make her go away.
Blood and Stone
An intriguing story that combines crime with fantasy. A story of secrets, and a thought-provoking reflection of the real-world clash between religion and magic.
THE CRAG
A wonderful debut, set in the Wimmera. Skye is a paramedic with a passion for rock climbing. When Skye finds a woman’s body dumped in a pit behind an old settler’s cottage whilst walking her dogs, it sets off a chain of events that will lead to the revelation of more than one violent secret in the small community.
THE HATERS
An author releases her debut novel. She’s ecstatic. Then comes an aggressive one-star review online, and it triggers a campaign of terrible reviews and online harassment. Was it really a disgruntled reader who turned Camryn Lane’s life upside down?
MURDER IN PUNCH LANE
When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it was suicide by laudanum overdose. Everyone except Lola. On the brink of stardom herself, she risks everything by embarking on a quest to find Marie’s killer.
THE MYSTERY WRITER
For fans of Rowland Sinclair, he’s on a break. In this standalone story, Sulari Gentill introduces us to Theo, a young woman who wants to write the biggest bestselling book in the world. She heads to the US where, to her utter shock, she finds herself the prime suspect in the death of another author.
THE HOUSESITTER
This one is hard to put down. Set in Tasmania, Em has come home from the US, partly to get away from her abusive Hollywood husband and the media frenzy of their split. But small things start to go awry almost immediately – then her mother disappears.
THE GALLOWS BIRD
This debut novel draws on the true stories of female convicts who are sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. We meet Hannah Bird in London in 1833 and follow her to Sydney in a story that is as sweeping as it is sobering.