Crime & Thriller

  • Cutters End Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1

    Author: Margaret Hickey  Publisher: Penguin Books Australia  Genre: Crime, Mystery, Outback Noir, Suspense Thriller  Year of Release 2022 Release Date: 05/07/2022  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #1 of #3  Synopsis  A desert highway. A remote town. A murder that won’t stay hidden. New Year’s Eve, 1989. Eighteen-year-old Ingrid Mathers is hitchhiking her way to Alice Springs. Bored, hungover,…

  • Between Husbands and Wives

    Author: Susannah Glenn  Publisher: Pantera Press  Genre:  Domestic, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Year of Release: 2024 Release date: 30/07/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Domestic abuse tactics, Gaslighting, Coercive control, Trauma, Death, injury to pet.  Synopsis  A couple moves to far north Queensland looking for a fresh start, but will their dark secret be exposed?  On a cold, dark night,…

  • Red River Road

    Author: Anna Downes  Publisher: Affirm  Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Suspense Year of release: 2024 Release date 30/04/24 Rating   🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  On the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her campervan further…

  • The Book of Doors

    Author: Gareth Brown  Publisher: Penguin Books Australia  Genre: Fantasy, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Magical Realism. Year of release: 2024 Release Date: 13 February 2024  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Because some doors should never be opened. New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her…

  • When One of Us Hurts

    Author: Monica Vuu  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia  Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery, Thriller, Suspense. Year of release: 2023 Release date: 27/06/23 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of an infant, incest, death, pet death, drug use.  Synopsis  ‘When one of us hurts, we all hurt…’ Port Brighton hates outsiders. The small coastal town has its own…

  • The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

    Author: Natasha Lester Publisher: Hachette Australia  Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Mystery  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 27/09/23 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis In November 1973, a fashion legend vanished, leaving behind only a white silk dress and the question: what really happened to Astrid Bricard? Paris, 1917: Parentless sixteen-year-old Mizza Bricard makes a vow:…

  • The Other Side of Her

    Author: B.M. Carroll  Publisher: Affirm  Genre: Mystery & Thriller  Year of release: 2023 Release date: 26/04/23  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  A missing backpacker A million-dollar rewardOrdinary people cracking under pressure. Busy parents Mia and Ryan were devastated when their former nanny, Irish backpacker Tara, tragically disappeared. But that was two years ago. Now they want to move on…

  • The Favour

    Title: The Favour  Author: Nicci French Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia  Genre: Mystery & Thriller, General Fiction, Modern Romance, Suspense, Crime  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 31/01/23  Rating:  Synopsis  A good deedCan turn deadly… When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude’s life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she…

  • Both of you

    Author: Adele Parks Publishers: Harlequin Books Australia  Genre: Mystery & Thriller Year of Release: 2021 Release Date: 2nd June 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Leigh Fletcher: happily married step mum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never…

  • One Last Secret

    Author: Adele Parks  Publisher: Harlequin Books Australia  Genre: Mystery & Thriller, General Fiction  Year of Release: 2022 Release Date 15th June 2022 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis One last client A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France – it should be a straight-forward final job for Dora. She’s a smart, stunning, and discrete escort and…