Crime & Thriller

  • Three Boys Gone

    Author: Mark Smith  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia  Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Modern & Contemporary Fiction,  phycological Thriller  Year of Release: 2024 Release Date: 31/12/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Bullying, Drowning, Death, Death of Children, Grief, Harassment, Stalking, suicide. Synopsis ‘First rule of rescue: don’t create another casualty.’ Grace Disher is about to face every teacher’s worst nightmare.  Three of…

  • In the Margins

    Author: Gail Holmes  Publisher: Ultimo Press   Genre: Historical Fiction, Woman’s fiction  Year of release: 2024 Release date: 03/09/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis We are the spaces between the words.  Inspired by a real person, In the Margins is the story of spirited book-collector Frances Wolfreston—the woman who uniquely preserved the earliest part of Shakespeare’s legacy.   England, 1647. As civil war gives…

  • The Close-Up

    Author: Pip Drysdale Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Suspense, contemporary, Modern Romance, Fiction, Crime. Year of Release: 2024 Release Date 30/10/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Sometimes dreams come true – but so do nightmares … Things have not been going well for Zoe Ann Weiss. Once a young novelist full of promise, now she…

  • Then Things Went Dark

    Author: Bea Fitzgerald  Publisher: Penguin Books UK  Genre: General Fiction, Thriller & Suspense  Year of release: 2024 Release Date: 10/09/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 TW: Abuse within a relationship, Death, murder, Suicide, Alcohol, drug abuse, violence and stalking Blood Injury and descriptions of a corpse, mental illness and mental ableism, Accusations of child abuse and paedophilia. Synopsis  No…

  • The Honeymoon

    Author: Gemma Rogers  Publisher: Boldwood Books  Genre: General Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Year of release: 2024 Release Date 18/10/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  In a split second, your whole world crashes around you… My wedding was the perfect whirlwind of a day. The happiest I’d ever been. That was until I discovered my beloved husband, Ryan, tucked away…

  • The Wrong Sister

    Author: Claire Douglas Publisher: Penguin UK Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Domestic Thriller. Year of release: 2024 Release date: 19/03/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  A burglary gone wrong, a mistaken identity …or something far worse? Tasha has always felt in the shadow of her older sister, Alice. Alice is married to wealthy entrepreneur Kyle and has a high-flying…

  • Perversion of Justice

    Author: Steve Matthews  Publisher: Big Sky Publishing  Genre, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction  Year of release: 2024 Release date: 04/09/24   Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of a domestic pet, accidental overdose, Sexual assault. Synopsis  In the darkest shadows, the pursuit of truth is the only light. ‘Brilliant … a captivating new voice in Australian crime fiction’ In the…

  • The Creeper

    Author: Margaret Hickey  Publisher: Random House Australia  Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Year of release: 2024 Release Date: 30/07/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Victim … or killer? For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high country has been haunted by the horrific murders of five hikers up on Jagged Ridge.  Also found…

  • Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #3)

    Author: Margaret Hickey  Publisher: Penguin Australia  Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 13/06/23 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #3 of #3 not required to be read in order. Synopsis  Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a few days’ holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time. The small fishing town on South…

  • Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

    Author: Margaret Hickey Publisher: Penguin Australia  Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Outback Noir Year of Release: 2023 Release date: 13/06/23 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #2 of #3 not required to be read in order. Synopsis  With its gold-rush history long in the past, Stone Town has seen better days. And it’s now in the headlines for all the wrong…