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Lowbridge / Lucy Campbell.

1987: It's late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping centre in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. Her unsolved disappearance is never far from the town's memory. There's those who grew up in the shadow of her loss whose own lives were altered forever, and those who know more than they're saying. It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions. 2018: Katherine Ashworth, shattered by the death of her daughter, moves to her husband's hometown. Searching for a way to pick up the pieces of her life, she joins the local historical society and becomes obsessed with the three-decades-old mystery. As Katherine digs into that summer of 1987, she stumbles upon the trail of a second girl who vanished and was never missed because no one cared enough to see what was happening in plain sight. Her trail could lead right to Katherine's door. In a town simmering with divisions and a cast of unforgettable characters, Lowbridge is a heart-wrenching mystery about the girls who are lost, the ones who are mourned and those who are forgotten.
Author: Campbell, Lucy
Published: Gadigal Country ; Ultimo, NSW : Ultimo Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
376 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - CAMP - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 010699910
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - CAMP - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010699903
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - CAMP - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010699897

The caretaker / Gabriel Bergmoser.

An isolated, empty ski resort in the off-season. A woman who doesn't want to be found. A man who may not be who he appears to be. It's a game of cat and mouse - with deadly consequences. On the run from a controlling husband and his underworld associates in Melbourne, Charlotte has adopted a new identity and found a job as an off-season caretaker in a tiny, deserted Alpine resort. Some dangerous people are looking for Charlotte and so she's lying low, tending to the lodges, safe in her solitude, but jumping every time a floor creaks or the wind whistles through the empty corridors of the deserted lodges. She's trying to convince herself she's safe, that she got away. But then strange things start happening around the resort. And Charlotte starts to realise that every escape route she has is being sealed, off one by one.
Author: Bergmoser, Gabriel
Published: Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
Published: ©2023
330 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BERG - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 010838074
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BERG - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 010837619
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BERG - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 010838081

Dark corners / Megan Goldin.

True-crime podcaster Rachel Krall gets pulled into the cut-throat and narcissistic world of social media influencers as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of an Instagrammer. Racing to find the missing woman before it's too late, Rachel discovers a connection to the abduction and murders of other young women years earlier. Even social media influencers have secrets, and some of them can be deadly.
Author: Goldin, Megan
Published: [Southbank, VIC] : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.
Published: ©2023
341 pages ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - GOLD - Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 - 010837374
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - GOLD - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 010837367
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - GOLD - Available - 010837381

The pit / Peter Papathanasiou.

With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer. They are accompanied on the drive by another nursing home resident: Luke, thirty years old, paralysed in a motorbike accident. As they embark on their road trip through the guts of Western Australia, pursued by outback police and adrenaline-soaked miners, Sparrow beings to suspect that Bob's desire to head north may have sinister motivations. Is Luke being held against his will? And what lies in store for them when they reach their goal?
Author: Papathanasiou, Peter
Published: London : MacLehose Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
296 pages ; 24 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - PAPA - Available - 010841289
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - PAPA - Available - 010841333
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - PAPA - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 010841326

Everyone on this train is a suspect [Paperback] / Benjamin Stevenson.

Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time - I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty - the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, the psychological suspense writer. But when one of us is murdered, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Or commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?
Author: Stevenson, Benjamin
Published: [Southbank, VIC] : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.
Published: ©2023
318 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Ernest Cunningham ; 2.
15 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - STEV - In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Brighton Library (Set: 02 May 2024) - 010981152
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - STEV - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 010981169
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - STEV - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 02 May 2024) - 010956013
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - STEV - Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 - 010956037

Ripper / Shelley Burr.

Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town's ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own. She knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. That three innocent people died. That the last stop on the Rainier Ripper's trail of death seventeen years ago was her innocuous little teashop. She knows that the consequences of catching the Ripper still haunt her police officer husband and their marriage to this day and that some of her neighbours are desperate - desperate enough to welcome a dark tourism company keen to cash in on Rainier's reputation as the murder town. When the tour operator is killed by a Ripper copycat on Gemma's doorstep, the unease that has lurked quietly in the original killer's wake turns to foreboding, and she's drawn into the investigation. Unbeknownst to her, so is a prisoner named Lane Holland. Gemma knows her town. She knows her people. Doesn't she?
Author: Burr, Shelley
Published: Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2023.
Published: ©2023
346 pages ; 24 cm.
Lane Holland ; 2.
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BURR - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - 010860662
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BURR - Available - 010860679
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BURR - Available - 010943341
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BURR - Available - 010860686

Violet Kelly and the jade owl / Fiona Britton.

Sydney, 1930: In the well-heeled suburb of Paddington, just a short distance from the razor gangs of Darlinghurst and Kings Cross, sits Maison des Fleurs, an upscale brothel run by the indomitable Madame. The star of Maison des Fleurs is Violet Kelly - beautiful, clever and determined to make something of herself in a world that has already taken so much. When a former associate of Madame's emerges to claim a long-owed favour involving a kidnapped girl and an ancient curse, Violet is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse that takes her from dangerous underworld dealings to raucous parties to untold stories about her own past, and, eventually, right into the heart of Maison des Fleurs. But how much is she willing to risk to save her friends, her home, and the life she's come to love? And will it be enough?
Author: Britton, Fiona
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Published: ©2023
286 pages ; 24 cm.
Violet Kelly ; 1.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BRIT - Available - 010840343
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BRIT - Available - 010840350
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BRIT - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010840336

The unearthed / Lenny Bartulin.

After decades-old human bones are discovered in the Tasmanian wilderness, Antonia Kovács returns home with questions for her father, a retired police inspector in Queenstown. Meanwhile, Tom Pilar receives news of an inheritance, from a man he barely remembers, one of his father's friends from the early days, newly arrived in the island and looking for work.
Author: Bartulin, Lenny
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Published: ©2023
274 pages ; 24 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BART - Available - 010840299
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BART - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010840305
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BART - Available - 010840312

The shallows / Holly Craig.

Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney's most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all-perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters can't hide Ariella's. Now she has been found murdered. Her daughter filmed the killing. Not knowing what she's filmed, Emma's daughter Kiki innocently uploads footage of Ariella's brutal death. Emma fears the worst-the killer will know what she and Kiki have seen. Their safe suburban lives no longer exist. Her husband knows more than he's revealing. Emma's husband Charles forces the family to leave their perfect life and escape on their yacht. His dangerous plan to flee means Emma is trapped and desperately seeking answers. What are they hiding from? What did Ariella have to confess? And who else knows Emma's own secret? Her secret isn't safe and neither is she.
Author: Craig, Holly
Published: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2023]
Published: ©2023
340 pages ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - CRAI - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - 010854883

The cop who fell to earth [Paperback] / Craig Semple.

When a young eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he generally preferred to steer clear of trouble rather than turn and face it. But like so many young police officers, through a process of intentionally and selflessly turning towards danger, he gradually built resilience to fear. By the time he started locking horns with some of the most feared members of Australia's outlaw motorcycle gangs, Craig thought himself completely bulletproof and fearless. During a career spanning a quarter of a century, Craig Semple saw just about everything: murder, drug addition, suicide, fatal accidents, armed robbery, organised crime and much more. Trained and shaped during a pre-Royal Commission era of alcohol abuse and loose culture within the force, he then survived a post-Royal Commission purge - when those tasked with cleaning up corruption themselves became corrupted. Craig's life and natural career progression suddenly jumped the tracks when his brother, a rookie police officer, was near-fatally stabbed by a drug dealer on the streets of Sydney. Now driven by a deeply personal motivation, Craig's obsession with fighting drug crime took him to the brink of personal, professional and marital destruction. Attempting to give his family and career a new start, Craig moved to the New South Wales north coast, where he soon became the victim of violent crime at the hands of outlaw bikies. This was the catalyst for a ten-year personal battle between one regional detective and several outlaw motorcycle gangs. The Cop Who Fell to Earth gives rare insight into the difficulties and dynamics of criminal investigation. Crime scenes described in vivid detail provide a front-row seat to the challenges of trauma. Detailed accounts of investigations into crimes including child abuse and homicide highlight the impact on victims. Gripping narratives of covert, often dangerous, investigations into drug and organised crime shine a light on the shadows cast by despair, greed and power at all levels of society. From the rolling hills of the Riverina to the sugar cane fields of the Northern Rivers, Craig shares his journey in law enforcement right across the state of New South Wales. The Cop Who Fell to Earth is Craig's story of transformation and profound personal growth through exposure to extreme life events. Ultimately, it is a story of how human endurance, tenacity, sacrifice and belief in something beyond the self ultimately lead to the triumph of good over evil.
Author: Semple, Craig
Published: Sydney, NSW : Echo Publishing, 2023.
Published: ©2023
xvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 363.2 SEM - Available - 010839743

I am already dead / David Whish-Wilson.

Trainee private investigator Lee Southern finds himself drawn into a web of danger and deceit as he investigates a series of bribery attempts targeting a wealthy entrepreneur. Under the expert tutelage of retiring PI Frank Swann, Lee uses all of his developing skills, instincts and cunning to get to the heart of a sordid mystery. As Lee delves deeper into the case and questions the intentions of those he's working for, he finds himself the target of increasingly ominous threats and several attempts on his life.
Author: Whish-Wilson, David
Published: North Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
315 pages ; 24 cm.
True west (Series) ; 2.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - WHIS - Available - 010849650
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - WHIS - Available - 010849704

Summer of blood / Dave Warner.

May, 1967. DS John Gordon and CI Ray Shearer are handpicked find a young Australian man who has gone missing in California. Neck-deep in the incense-infused counterculture, their minds blown with the new sounds pouring out of the States, Gordon and Shearer start poking around. And pretty soon they start to think that Martin Davis might not be the one only who has vanished in the crowd. From love-in to music festival, night club to kombi, the two officers are swept up in a world of peace and free love, anti-war protests and psychedelic music, searching for a missing hippie - and maybe a serial killer - in a place where love is free and danger is bountiful.
Author: Warner, Dave
Published: North Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
319 pages ; 24 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - WARN - Available - 010849469
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - WARN - Available - 010849476
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - WARN - Available - 010849421

The seven [Paperback] / Chris Hammer.

Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now-in startling circumstances-one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate. Could the murder be connected to the execution of the victim's friend thirty years ago-another member of The Seven-or even the long-forgotten story of a servant girl on the brink of the Great War? What are the secrets The Seven are so desperate to keep hidden? With the killer still on the loose, and events spiralling out of control, the closer Ivan and Nell get to discovering the truth, the more dangerous their investigation becomes. Can they crack the case before more people die?
Author: Hammer, Chris, 1960-
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Published: ©2023
495 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan ; 3.
Average rating: (1 review)
26 reserves

14 copies

The wiregrass / Adrian Hyland.

A murder made to look like an accident. A disgraced cop trying to forget his past. Nash Rankin is a disgraced cop trying to escape his past -- his career was destroyed when he chose to take justice into his own hands. Now he's living a quiet life in a small town caring for the local wildlife and trying to stay away from trouble. Jesse Redpath has a new job in a new town, Satellite -- the stormy weather that greets her first few days on the new beat seems like a sign for what's to come. A local has died in what seems like an accident, but Jesse isn't so sure that 'accident' wasn't planned. All evidence seems to point to Nash, but Jesse's not sure about that either. Seems like Nash has enemies. And what looks like a close knit community might just be cover for dark secrets.
Author: Hyland, Adrian
Published: Gadigal Country ; Ultimo, NSW : Ultimo Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
311 pages ; 23 cm.
Jesse Redpath ; 2.
Average rating: (1 review)
3 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HYLA - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 01 May 2024) - 010981176
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HYLA - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 22 Apr 2024) - 010991342
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HYLA - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 010984580
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HYLA - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 010981145

The drowning / Bryan Brown.

The body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sleepy northern New South Wales town. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble... at least, that's what it looks like. Three weeks before, Leila, a young backpacker, didn't turn up for her shift at the local cafe. Benny, the owner, isn't worried. It happens - backpackers are always on the move. There'll be another one. One of the locals, Adrian, has been a help to Benny. He's found him a nice little sideline. Not exactly legal. Is that all Adrian is arranging on the coast? He once was a cop but has he gone bad? And in the backblocks outside town, a bikie gang is gearing up for a large consignment from South America.
Author: Brown, Bryan, 1947-
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Published: ©2023
274 pages ; 24 cm
7 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010922605
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 01 May 2024) - 010919711
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 010922599
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 010919667
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 010979807
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 01 May 2024) - 010922636
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BROW - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 010922629

The schoolgirl, her teacher and his wife / Rebecca Hazel.

The Teacher's Pet podcast was a phenomenon with more than 80 million downloads across the world. Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all -- a loving family and a beautiful home in Sydney's Northern Beaches. But in the summer of 1982 his wife Lynette disappeared and not long afterwards Dawson married a much younger woman a former student. Less than a decade later this young woman escaped the marriage and went to the police to record her suspicions that Dawson had been involved in Lynette's disappearance. A homicide investigation followed but got nowhere until 1998, when Detective Sergeant Damian Loone was handed Lynette's file. For nearly two decades he made it his business to honour Lynette and to find out what had happened to her. His work led to two coronial investigations, but no charges. Around this time Rebecca Hazel was working in a women's refuge on the Northern Beaches when a colleague shared her story of enduring coercive control at the hands of Dawson, when she was his student, and then wife and she shared her suspicions about the fate of his first wife Lynette. These revelations affected Rebecca, and eventually she decided to investigate. Over years, coroners, police and journalists all shared with Rebecca their knowledge of the case, and disappointments that it remained unsolved. Until, in May 2018, Hedley Thomas launched the Teacher's Pet podcast, and in December 2018, Chris Dawson was charged with murder. He was convicted in August 2022. Rebecca Hazel has spent ten years working to ensure that the stories of two women who were misused by Chris Dawson are heard, that their perpetrator was brought to justice and that Lynette's family can properly honour their much-loved sister, aunt, cousin and mother.
Author: Hazel, Rebecca
Published: [Southbank, VIC] : Vintage Books Australia, 2023.
Published: ©2023
xxiv, 372 pages ; 24 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - True Crime - 364.152 HAZ - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010847748

The man who wasn't there / Dan Box.

Zak Grieve grew up in an outback town, at the crossroads between right and wrong, white and Black, punishment and forgiving. Convicted of the brutal killing of Ray Nicefero, despite even the judge saying he wasn't there when it happened, he spent years writing letters describing his hopes and dreams, his role in what happened, and how when the real world came down on him with a tonne of punishment, he wasn't ready. This is a book about growing up, about dying and about writing. In the end, it is only Zak's imagination, given life in the novels he also writes inside prison, that hold the key to his survival.
Author: Box, Dan
Published: Gadigal Country ; Ultimo, NSW : Ultimo Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
vii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous - 364.152 BOX - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 01 May 2024) - 010944393

Naked city : true stories of crimes, cock-ups, crooks & cops / John Silvester.

John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidant of cops, criminals, lawyers and judges. He knows where the cash is stashed and where the bodies are buried. Naked City is a collection of Silvester's best stories, from sophisticated heists to mindless acts of violence and deeds of pure evil - impeccably sourced, wry, wise and witty. Travel the dark depths of Australia's criminal underworld with our most formidable crime reporter and an icon of Australian true crime.
Author: Silvester, John
Published: Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023.
Published: ©2023
xxii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
5 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - True Crime - 364.994 SIL - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 010927846
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - True Crime - 364.994 SIL - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010927839
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - True Crime - 364.994 SIL - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010985235
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - True Crime - 364.994 SIL - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 010927853

Resurrection Bay [Paperback] / Emma Viskic.

Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead.This gripping, original and fast-paced crime thriller is set between a big city and a small coastal town, Resurrection Bay, where Caleb is forced to confront painful memories. Caleb is a memorable protagonist who refuses to let his deafness limit his opportunities, or his participation in the investigation. But does his persistence border on stubbornness? And at what cost? As he delves deeper into the investigation Caleb uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend - and himself.
Author: Viskic, Emma
Published: London : Echo Publishing, 2022.
Published: ©2015
263 pages ; 20 cm.
Caleb Zelic ; 1.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Paperbacks - V - Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 - 010471981

Murder most fancy [Paperback] / Kellie McCourt.

Home for just 48 hours, Aussie billion-heiress Indigo-Daisy-Violet-Amber Hasluck-Royce-Jones-Bombberg has already committed two (completely understandable) felonies, reignited a childhood feud, been (possibly) humiliated (again) by her first love, and fallen over a nameless homeless dead man. All while strolling in her grandmother's garden ... Grandmother's kindly neighbour, Dame Elizabeth Holly, wants to spring the anonymous corpse from the coroner's freezer. She's convinced Indigo and her parolee personal assistant Esmerelda can unearth the man's identity, thus allowing his burial. Meanwhile Grandmother wants the unlikely duo to locate Dame Holly's possibly missing gentleman friend. Dame Holly's miserly granddaughter and not-so-bright son don't want her involved with any man - dead or alive. Are the cases related? Why are they receiving clues from an unknown helper? Should they cooperate with Detectives Searing and Burns, who tried to arrest Indigo for blowing up her plastic surgeon husband last summer? What is Esmerelda's secret? It's not so bad to undress a detective. Twice. Is it? How illegal can it be, really, to break into a top-secret government facility?
Author: McCourt, Kellie
Published: Sydney, New South Wales : HQ Fiction, 2022.
Published: ©2022
453 pages ; 24 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - MACC - Available - 010488248

The torrent / Dinuka McKenzie.

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two seemingly unconnected cases that will push a detective to the brink. In Northern New South Wales, heavily pregnant and a week away from maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is exhausted and counting down the days. But a violent hold-up at a local fast-food restaurant with unsettling connections to her own past, means that her final days will be anything but straightforward. When a second case is dumped on her lap, the closed case of man drowned in recent summer floods, what begins as a simple informal review quickly grows into something more complicated. Kate can either write the report that's expected of her or investigate the case the way she wants to. As secrets and betrayals pile up, and the needs of her own family intervene, how far is Kate prepared to push to discover the truth?
Author: McKenzie, Dinuka
Published: Sydney : HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Published: ©2022.
333, 12 pages ; 24 cmm.
Kate Miles ; 1.
2 reserves

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - MACK - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) - 010485292
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - MACK - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 01 May 2024) - 010613015
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - MACK - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - 010601920
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - MACK - Onloan - Due: 11 Apr 2024 - 010485315

Wild dogs / Michael Trant.

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife's death -- and the part he played in it -- the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Altair, from certain execution. Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Altair's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Hunter, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own. As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive...
Author: Trant, Michael
Published: Sydney : Bantam, 2022.
Published: ©2022
359 pages ; 24 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - TRAN - Available - 010466321
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - TRAN - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 010466345
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Moonlight and the pearler's daughter [Paperback] / Lizzie Pook.

Western Australia, 1886: As the pearling ships return to Bannin Bay after a long diving season, twenty-year-old Eliza Brightwell nervously awaits the arrival of her father's boat. But when his lugger finally limps in, it brings with it a tale of tragedy: Charles Brightwell, master pearler, has gone missing at sea. Immediately, whispers from the townsfolk point to mutiny or murder, but headstrong Eliza knows her father; she is sure he is still alive. As the Bay swelters under the heat of the approaching wet season, it falls to Eliza to seek out the truth behind her eccentric father's disappearance. But as she delves beneath the glamorous veneer of south sea pearling, she discovers that the sun-baked streets she thought she knew so well are teeming with corruption, prejudice and blackmail. How far is she willing to go to solve the mystery and save the ones she loves? And what family secrets will come to haunt her along the way? Because the truth may cost more than pearls -- and she must decide if she's willing to pay the price...
Author: Pook, Lizzie
Published: Melbourne, Victoria : Viking, 2022.
Published: ©2022
285 pages : 2 maps ; 24 cm.

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The cane [Paperback] / Maryrose Cuskelly.

One missing girl. No suspects. A town about to ignite. Quala, a north Queensland sugar town, the 1970s. Barbara McClymont walks the cane fields searching for Janet, her sixteen-year-old daughter, who has been missing for weeks. The Police have no leads. The people of Quala are divided by dread and distrust. But the sugar crush is underway and the cane must be burned. Meanwhile, children dream of a malevolent presence in the cane, a schoolteacher yearns to escape, and history keeps returning to remind Quala that the past is always present. As the smoke rises and tensions come to a head, the dark heart of Quala will be revealed, affecting the lives all those who dwell beyond the cane.
Author: Cuskelly, Maryrose
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
325 pages ; 24 cm.

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The gallerist / Michael Levitt.

Following the death of his beloved wife, Mark Lewis, a former surgeon, has found solace in running a small art gallery. When a local woman brings a painting to Mark for valuing, she tells him it was created by a seventeen-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and that it was a gift to her sister Katy, now deceased. Why then does Charlie's abstract work look exactly like a James Devlin - painted a whole decade before that artist's career began? Mark is joined in his quest by Linda de Vries, who has connections to the school Charlie once attended. What will be the price of asking questions about the celebrated James Devlin, a man whose past is as blank as an empty canvas?
Author: Levitt, Michael, 1957-
Published: Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2022.
Published: ©2022
221 pages ; 24 cm.

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The understudy [Paperback] / Julie Bennett.

"Immersed in the underbelly of the theatre world in the gritty streets of Sydney in 1973, this addictive debut will have you wondering just how dangerous ambition - and love - can be. It's opening night. The stage is set, the houselights have dimmed and the handsome male lead is waiting. This is your time. Your chance to prove you are so much more than the understudy. You have worked so hard and would have done almost anything to get here. But not what they are accusing you of - never that. It's simply bad luck that Australia's darling of opera has gone missing, throwing the spotlight on you just as the whole world is watching history in the making. But the show must go on and it's all down to you. Take a deep breath and get ready to perform the role of your life." -- Back cover.
Author: Bennett, Julie
Published: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2022.
Published: ©2022
x, 447 pages ; 24 cm.

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When we fall [Paperback] / Aoife Clifford.

In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find on the beach. The police claim it's an accidental death but there are whispers of murder and that it is not the first. Bella Greggs was found dead at the bottom of a ravine but drowned in salt water. Maxine McFarlane was pulled from the ocean but with no water in her lungs. Black feathers were found with both bodies but what do they mean? As Alex fights for answers to honour the dead, and to discover why her mother fled town as a teenager, good people keep looking the other way, memories become unreliable and secrets threaten to reveal the past. Alex discovers the truth never dies but it can kill.
Author: Clifford, Aoife
Published: Ultimo, NSW, : Ultimo Press, 2022.
Published: ©2022
329 pages ; 24 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

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Those who perish [Paperback] / Emma Viskic.

You should be careful, Mr Zelic. Because the person who killed Peter Taylor will almost certainly kill again.' The detective's glassy eyes didn't blink. 'And you're already in their sights.' Deaf PI Caleb Zelic has always been an outsider, estranged from family and friends. But when he receives a text that his brother, Anton, is in danger, Caleb sees it as a chance at redemption. He tracks Anton down to a remote, wind-punished island, where secrets run deep and resentments deeper. When a killer starts terrorising the isolated community, the brothers must rely on each other like never before. But trust comes at a deadly price.
Author: Viskic, Emma
Published: London : Echo Publishing, 2022.
Published: ©2022
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Caleb Zelic ; 4.

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Brunswick Street blues [Paperback] / Sally Bothroyd.

Brick Brown has problems: she hates her day job, and her beloved Uncle Baz has gone missing. Although a bartender by trade, Brick Brown has finagled herself a job on the city council to investigate a complaint that threatens to close her uncle's well-loved blues club in the heart of Melbourne. Brick suspects something strange is going on, but when her amateur sleuthing uncovers the mayor's dead body in a locked room, she's dragged into the dangerous world of dodgy developers with the reluctant help of Mitch Mitchell, a prickly war correspondent turned investigative journalist. Relying on her street smarts and an unlikely band of allies, Brick and Mitchell unearth corruption that runs deeper than just local government, and the stakes are higher than they banked on. And when Brick also discovers some terrifying information about her past, the stakes turn deadly...
Author: Bothroyd, Sally
First Australian paperback edition.
Published: Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2022.
Published: ©2022
361 pages ; 24 cm.

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All she wants / Kelli Hawkins.

Lindsay just wants to be a mother. And when she discovers her partner is leaving her for another woman, her dreams are left in tatters. He was her last chance at a family... Then she meets Jack, they fall hard for each other, and suddenly everything seems perfect. But why is his sister Natalie so strangely protective of him, yet eager to pass the responsibility to Lindsay? Who are these siblings, why did they really leave the UK, and what terrifying secrets lie in their past? And does Lindsay really want to know?
Author: Hawkins, Kelli
Published: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Published: ©2022
309 pages ; 24 cm.

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