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1) Fifty, fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment--to the Outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
2) Liar, liar
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 3
Language
English
Description
Detective Harriet Blue is a very good cop...gone very bad. In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man, Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet--and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly speeds toward the dark side--and finally crosses it--Harriet won't stop...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father and stepmother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden--thirty-two years old and still living at home--immediately becomes a suspect. But after a notorious trial, she is found innocent, and no one is ever convicted of the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic Borden household have their own motives and their own stories to tell: Lizzie's unmarried older sister, a put-upon Irish housemaid, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fremantle
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Snowy Lane, a young police constable in Perth in 1979, begins investigating a string of murders of young women by a serial killer dubbed "Mr Gruesome." A local man is later arrested for the crimes, but Snowy doesn't believe he's the real killer. Unfortunately, he is unable to prove his hunch before the man commits suicide and he leaves the police force. By the 1980s, Snowy is now a private investigator and when a new series of murders rock the city,...
5) Hades
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, two children were kidnapped and left for dead. Raised by a master criminal, they grew up to become cops. Very unusual cops ... Homicide detective Frank Bennett has an intriguing new partner. Dark, beautiful, coldly efficient, Eden Archer is one of the most enigmatic colleagues Frank has ever worked with--that includes her brother Eric, who's also on the Sydney Metro police force. All of them are tested to the core when a local man...
6) Heaven sent
Author
Series
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Freemantle, Australia Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong investigates a serial killer targeting the city's homeless population while relishing life as a new father.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her family is brutally murdered in the Australian outback, American college student Eve Thorogood vows to bring serial killer Mick Taylor to justice, or die trying.
8) The Bat
Author
Series
Harry Hole novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry. He might just be the...
9) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their families. They flirt and yearn. They lie and confess. Some of them leave home. Some of them return. Darkness thrums beneath the surface of these ordinary lives: the violence of one man, a serial killer whose murders made Barrow infamous. His twelve victims--women, men, mostly young--are long gone, but their...
11) Thornwood House
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (16 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Audrey Kepler inherits an abandoned homestead in rural Queensland, she jumps at the chance to escape her loveless existence in the city and make a fresh start. In a dusty back room of the old house, she discovers the crumbling photo of a handsome World War Two medic--Samuel Riordan, the homestead's former occupant--and soon finds herself becoming obsessed with him. But as Audrey digs deeper into Samuel's story, she discovers he was accused of...