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In the frosty Melbourne winter, milliner sleuth Catherine Kint looks for distraction in a night at the circus. When tragedy strikes, she and her barman Boris are drawn into a new mystery. As they draw back the metaphorical curtain, they're confronted with a troupe in chaos, a culture of secrecy, and a family in crisis. Add in hula hooping thugs, a desperate suspect, and a nihilistic bully and you have a recipe for carnage even Catherine can't ...

A barking mad mystery. The Nosy Detectives agency is like no other. For a start, one of the detectives is a dog called Monty, a rescued Golden Retriever with a heart of gold and a super-smart nose. Rose Sidebottom, an ex-copper, has an uncanny ability to know when a suspect is lying. And Ollie Fernsby is a teenage super-geek and inventor of the rat-cam. They make a great team. There is just one problem - no clients. Then one day, Phyllis O'Nea...

A barking mad mystery. The Nosy Detectives agency is like no other. For a start, one of the detectives is a dog called Monty, a rescued Golden Retriever with a heart of gold and a super-smart nose. Rose Sidebottom, an ex-copper, has an uncanny ability to know when a suspect is lying. And Ollie Fernsby is a teenage super-geek and inventor of the rat-cam. They make a great team. There is just one problem - no clients. Then one day, Phyllis O'Nea...

Blind barrister Tom Challinor's plans for a well-earned week off are dashed by an attempted murder linked to a Sydney escort agency. Sonya and her sassy friend Avril are workers in that niche-market agency where the workers are all people with disability, amputees, chair users, or people of short stature. Their eager customers style themselves 'devotees'. Meanwhile, bizarrely-mutilated dolls are turning up on the doorestep of a women's refuge....

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Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush. Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Laced with intrigue, suspense, horror, and even a touch of humour, this anthology brings together stories and poems by some of the best homegrown and Kiwi-at-heart voices working in dark fictio...

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 Queenst...

The Diemen Alexander is Jurassic Park meets ET in the best possible way. It's fast paced, thrilling, funny and fantastical. I loved it.' - Alison Goodman When tender-hearted geeky teenage Luke rescues a lizard in a thunderstorm on kunanyi, he has no idea it will have a mind of its own. Or eat quite so much. Or grow so fast. Or resemble Tasmania's lost dinosaur. Suddenly Alexander the lizard becomes an immensely valuable object, sought by col...

People often say 'You don't deserve this' but, when it comes to cancer, who does? So, when a devastating diagnosis tips the Falkiner-Rose family on its head, it takes medicos, bloody-mindedness and imagination to survive their version of medical whack-a-mole. At the time they kept up a stream of Pete Updates for friends and family. Using those and intimate reflections, Leslie Falkiner-Rose tells a tale that's messy, moving, mind-blowing and, a...

Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush. Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Laced with intrigue, suspense, horror, and even a touch of humour, this anthology brings together stories and poems by some of the best homegrown and Kiwi-at-heart voices working in dark fictio...

Thirty years of silver blades, scarlet stains and the most elegant of heels. Thirty years of slipping in the knife, tightening the noose, measuring out the poison. Thirty years of whispered threats and tangled plots, of murder and mayhem. For thirty years, the annual Scarlet Stiletto women's crime and mystery short story competition - run by Sisters in Crime Australia - has uncovered dreadful deeds, righteous revenge, deadly high-jinks and w...

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 alo...

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 alo...

Rising Tiger features 65 mystery stories from young writers living in the Huon Valley, Tasmania, and beyond. Each year, the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival in the Huon Valley offers a Mystery Short Story Competition for young writers to age 16. Entries arrive from across Tasmania, every state in Australia, and from as far afield as New Zealand, and Georgia (the country). The young writers' stories are entertaining, twisty and fun...

Martin Carter is having a crook day. His home life's a misery, he's been retrenched by the bank and everyone's forgotten his birthday. But a million-dollar payroll, a pistol in a biscuit tin, and a split-second decision change everything. Hurtling north on a motorcycle with the intriguing Faith, Martin encounters a mysterious hit-man, a new-age bikie gang, a reclusive media mogul and the booby-trapped mountain hideout of an old schoolmate. Wit...

A driver picks up a hitchhiker from the side of a road, a restorer develops an unusual bond with a cursed doll, a visit to the cabin in the woods goes terribly wrong... We all know how these stories end - or do we? In This Fresh Hell, every story begins with a well-known horror trope but ends with a twist, bringing new life and unexpected resolutions to old ideas. Fears are interrogated, ghosts re-examined, and monsters reconfigured. From chil...

A driver picks up a hitchhiker from the side of a road, a restorer develops an unusual bond with a cursed doll, a visit to the cabin in the woods goes terribly wrong... We all know how these stories end - or do we? In This Fresh Hell, every story begins with a well-known horror trope but ends with a twist, bringing new life and unexpected resolutions to old ideas. Fears are interrogated, ghosts re-examined, and monsters reconfigured. From chil...

If ever there was a crash of abundant beauty in the incomprehensible vastness of experience of complex human emotion - this is it. Presented by the exquisite mind of Rafik Romdhani, this unique poetry collection will fill you with wonder, it will romance and shatter your heart. There's a mirror to divinity in this talented poet's expression through his delicate art of word architecture. Come, experience The Crash of Verses.

All Anastacia wanted was to control what she saw. But no one controls death. Anastacia Geist escaped to New Orleans in hopes to control her ability to see spirits and other entities. Her gift, turned curse, gained the attention of more than her fair share of supernatural visitors. Lost in the dark and cold, she failed to see a future. Mel Coster moved to the city of his dreams, filled with history and nightlife. His days of being his fathe...

When ancient evil starts to stir, it's up to them to stop hell from breaking open. Erich and Mellie have a lot on their plates as they grapple with Erich's new form, Mellie's new powers, and the lost key to the gates of the underworld. As the two unearth their past, their every step leads them deeper into hell, putting their lives in mortal danger-for even the dead can kill. Can they survive the place they once called home? She's the one h...