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21) City of light
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Assisting Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in the investigation of an unpopular orchestral conductor's murder, Miss Fisher becomes suspicious of a charismatic code-breaker who has captured John Wilson's affections.
23) River of Salt
Author
Publisher
Fremantle
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In 1963, former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a tiny coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man running a club called the Surf Shack, and playing nights there with his surf music band, The Twang. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel, a matchbook from the Surf Shack on her bedside table. When Blake's friend is arrested for her murder and the local...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The fabulous Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the perfect place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne's two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fisher's pleasure trip has definitely become business. Digging into this longstanding mystery takes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and sometimes men for hire), appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918, and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne...
26) 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.
Series
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. His co-conspirator Lawson has been fired from Ballarat, his emotional embrace with Jean has changed life in the house. Doctor Blake finds his tenure under threat by a new arrival. But that's the least of his troubles when he uncovers a dark story behind his mother's death. In this eight-part series return, the wonderfully maverick Doctor Blake is pushed to his limits to find the truth behind a range of...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 550 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat after an attempt to reunite with his long lost daughter. But it's no longer the safe haven he left behind: Danny has been transferred to Melbourne, replaced by a new Senior Constable who seems hell bent on making Blake's job as police surgeon as difficult as possible. Blake's old nemesis Patrick Tyneman has called in the help of some powerful men to keep an eye on Blake. And of course there are the strange and...
Series
Doctor Blake volume 4
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 472 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of Dr. Lucien Blake as he practices medicine and investigates murder in 1950s rural Australia.
30) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (565 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake and his long-suffering housekeeper and confidant Jean Beazley now face a new future together, full of possibility. But life has a few more surprises in store for the both of them. Once again they'll be confronted by murder and mystery at every turn.
32) Truth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector Stephen Villani, head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia, has a full agenda: a murdered woman in a penthouse apartment, three men butchered in a sadistic rampage, a tattoofaced drug dealer corrupting his rebellious daughter, a crumbling marriage. As these seemingly unrelated events begin to unfold, Villani finds himself immersed in an unfamiliar world of political scandal and ethical ambiguity. He must navigate the inept bureaucracy that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that week. Bookending her pleasant dinner with her new friend...
34) Just murdered
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the 1960s, and Peregrine Fisher has just been fired. Soon after, she receives a letter from The Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes: 'Please attend urgent meeting regarding inheritance.' Peregrine, it turns out, is Phryne Fisher's long-lost niece. Aunt Phryne went missing, but her will stipulated that Peregrine should inherit not just Phryne's fortunes, but also her seat in the Adventuresses' Club. After a lousy first impression in Melbourne,...
35) Second sight
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she's on the 'wrong side'--defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale. On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they uncover bones at The Castle, a historic homestead in the...
Author
Series
Belltree trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree, back on the job after a near-fatal confrontation with corrupt colleagues, has become a departmental embarrassment. He can't and doesn't want to return to his post with the Sydney Police Department. Instead, he accepts a post far away from Sydney and attempts to build a quiet life in Newcastle, Australia. But that quiet life quickly eludes him. A body's been found buried just offshore on Ash Island and that one body...
37) Web of deceit
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When frantic man refuses to leave the car that witnesses say he deliberately crashed, paramedics Jane and Alex think it's a desperate cry for help. But his paranoid claims that someone is out to get him only confirm official reports that he is delusional. When he is indeed found dead in what looks like a suicide, Jane is uneasy: she remembers the raw terror in his eyes. Detective Ella Marconi shares these doubts, which are compounded as the case...
38) 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...
39) 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...