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English
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what...
2) Crimson Lake
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time--that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer....
3) Scrublands
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Language
English
Description
"In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend. His assignment is simple: describe how the townspeople are coping as the anniversary of their tragedy approaches. But as Martin meets the locals and hears their...
4) Eden
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Most homicide detective teams run on trust, loyalty, and the shared desire to put killers behind bars. Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer, thrives on darkness and danger. She has a rare talent for catching killers--but her idea of justice has little to do with courtrooms. Now three girls are missing, and Eden is going to undercover to a remote farm where the troubled go to hide and blood falls more often than rain. Frank's job is to keep an eye...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
242 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
480 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
Author
Series
Sydney Cove volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just when things seem to be looking up for John and Hannah Bradshaw, their world is turned upside-down, in this conclusion to the Sydney Cove trilogy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Nestled in a picturesque corner of southern Australia, the Valley View Motel has been run by the Quinlans for years-- and nobody adores the place more than Lola, the family's lovable and mischievous Irish-born matriarch. So when she insists that her relatives spend their Christmas elsewhere, the close-knit bunch can't help but be a bit curious. Plotting in secret and online, Lola thinks it would be fun to invite a select group of strangers to stay...
10) Web of deceit
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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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child,...
12) 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...