Fiction > Crime / Detective

Jack Irish is no ordinary investigator. He was a Melbourne criminal lawyer, but quit when a deranged client murdered his wife. After a long alcoholic binge of despair, he recovered sufficiently to set up a non-criminal practice in the suburb of Fitzroy. Jack has a big build, and women find him attractive. He has a dry wit and an observant eye. He's a gambler by nature. Jack's world - workshops, pubs and racetracks - is very different from that of most crime novel protagonists. He leads us through a world of light and shadows, until... read more

Two women pursued by pasts they can't escape after a tragic car crash that throws them together... Slowly they are forced to confront the shame they have always carried. A gripping psychological thriller.

The highly anticipated sequel to The Coroner's Lunch. Laos, 1977. Something wild and evil has been let loose in the city of Vientiane and a series of mutilated corpses lands in the morgue of Dr Siri Paiboun - the reluctant national coroner. Just as things in the capital start to get interesting, 72-year old Dr Siri is sent to the old royal capital Luang Prabang, where he becomes involved in the Communist Government's plot to rid the country of its king and all the royal spirits. Meanwhile, back in Vientiane, Dr Siri's helpers-Mr.... read more

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These two stories are wonderful, quintessentially Australian stuff, full of authentic diehard types, old culture cops, back street humour and inner-city dialogues you can overhear in the bars of certain hotels, the one with framed pictrues of horses on the walls.

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As Maj-Britt festers malevolently in her hermetic apartment, appeased only by an endless supply of food, Monika blots out her pain by ceaselessly working, punishing herself unforgivingly for any failure.They have nothing in common but the determination to obliterate their memories and be left alone - but when a letter and a tragic accident force each of them to confront the past, their lives become inextricably intertwined.As the emotional void of their lives threatens to engulf them, each woman proves the catalyst for the other's ... read more

Eva, a dynamic young working mother, is forced to reassess her marriage when her husband's apathy can no longer be ignored. When she discovers he's been having an affair with her son's day-care teacher, grief and rage drive her into vengeful action. Fate leads her to Jonas, an isolated young man who for the past two years has been keeping vigil beside his comatose girlfriend. Burdened with his own sinister history of betrayal and his quest for acceptance, he sees a chance to start afresh with Eva - but their union has frightening c... read more

A brutal serial killer is stalking Texan cyberspace, selecting victims for a death so bloody it has earned the killer the media sobriquet ?The Gynecologist?. Mac Benton, Inspector for the Texas division of the National Homicide Task Force, is the officer in charge of the investigation. The detective?s sanity is at times borderline: tormented by the death of his wife and unborn son in an automobile accident, with the ghost of his former partner still inhabiting his office, his reality checks include Namath, his pet tortoise, and ... read more

Some secrets won't stay buried . . . A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let it go and let his former colleagues in the police deal with it. But when the coffin is opened and its occupant is not the old man supposed to be inside, he knows he cannot walk away. But he cannot let the police keep digging, because they are getting dangerously close to digging up the real truth: the truth about him. With the ... read more

Three-letter word for omniscient being, middle letter O...Joe. After all, Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. Nor is he bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, murdered seven women. But Joe knows the Carver only killed six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to find that copy-cat killer, he's going to punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It's a perfect plan because he already k... read more

A sassy, sexy and very funny novel introducing Simone Kirsch aka Vivien Leigh, stripper and PI, who is determined to find the real killer of strip club owner, Frank Parisi. Simone Kirsch aka Vivien Leigh is sexy, funny and intelligent.And she needs it all as she goes undercover, stripping at the table dancing club, The Red Room, to find out who killed the sleazy owner, Francesco 'Frank' Parisi. It's the only way to get her best friend Chloe back from Frank's underworld brother Sal who says he'll kill her unless Simone can come up w... read more

Annie Powers seems to live a happy, pampered life in a wealthy Florida suburb with a husband who loves her fiercely and a beautiful young daughter they named Victory. But that happiness suddenly starts to fade when Annie feels the demons of her past creeping up on her. It's a past that she can't even recall due to a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start again as a completely new Annie Powers, under the loving and protective eye of her h... read more

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Renata is young, beautiful, and has sex for money and kicks. Few are immune to her intoxicating allure - even her pet Burmese python, Pepe, seems captive to her charm. Richard is one of her clients, a poetry professor with a wife and two sons, whose erotic fascination with Rennie is threatening his home and job. Meanwhile, Julie, a shy wannabe-novelist, spies on Rennie from her room next door in between bouts of frustrated writing. Both would do anything to save Rennie from her dangerous occupation and become her one true love. Nar... read more

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As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epees: three women skewered by a sword through their hearts. A culprit has been apprehended, tried and sentenced to death in a week's time. But Siri isn't sure they have the right man. Unfortunately, the number one, and only, coroner of Laos isn't in a position to help anyone - not even himself. As his 74th birthday dawns, Siri finds himself incarcerated in prison by the Khymer Rouge, facing torture... read more

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big, baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train-a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like "Black Mask", "Dime Detective", "Detective Fiction Weekly", and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as... read more

The cops of Hollywood Station are still over-worked, under-staffed, bound by red tape, hobbled by political correctness, and constantly amazed by what the boulevards can throw at them. Scratch the surface of the 'reel' Hollywood and you'll discover the 'real' Hollywood. Here, Mickey Mouse is a crack addict, Marilyn Monroe is a man and when the moon is full, the neighborhood gets even weirder. When the legendary Oracle is replaced by Sgt. Jason 'Chickenlips' Treakle - a politically correct, paper shuffling putz with a shiny shoe fet... read more

Parker is on the run after a country town bank robbery goes wrong. He is confronted by a local citizen with a shotgun. But this citizen is not out to arrest him: he wants Parker to help him carry out a robbery of his own. First published 2006.