Australian Crime

A young girl is murdered on the beach, a beach just like the famous Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. Detective Bigfoot wants to stop for Breakfast but Sargent Elizabeth West is impatient to find out who and why then Elizabeth is abducted by the killer. A comic whodunit.

DI Mark Williamson and his wife, Christine, move from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia for a quieter lifestyle. Serious crime is low and Mark finds time to join the local Tennis Club, but peace in this idyllic area is shattered when a woman is found murdered in her own home. Can Mark find Faye Abbott’s killer and is her death linked to the murders which occur shortly afterwards at the Tennis Club?

How many times a day does the thought ‘if only’ run through our minds? Detective Rhiannon McVee is buried in ‘if onlys’ as she sacrifices her relationship with her cowboy Mac to make it her life’s work to solve Australia’s growing number of missing cold cases. When her young prodigy, Constable Zoe Chesney, disappears in the remote outback, Rhiannon is faced with the biggest ‘if only’ of her career. If only she could untangle the web of lies, deceit and murder her missing people have weaved before it’s too late. If only. If only.

Outback Outlaw is an unflinching and uncompromising account of a man forever cemented in the annals of Australian true crime. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listeners into the real-life horror experienced by the victim, and has all the elements of a classic thriller.

Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a few days' holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time. The small fishing town on South Australia's Limestone Coast is now the scene of a terrible tragedy. Renowned cave-diver Mya Rennik has drowned while exploring a sinkhole on the land of wealthy farmer Frank Doyle. As the press descends, Mark's boss orders him to stay put and assist the police operation. But when they retrieve Mya's body, a whole new mystery is opened up, around the disappearance of a young local woman twenty years before.

Captured in the 1930s before the words psychopath and pedophile were part of common vernacular, notorious serial killer Arnold Sodeman murdered four young girls with little thought of remorse. Without guilt, the evil serial killer strangled them to death with their own clothing and left their small bodies alone in the Australian brush, earning himself a chilling position in the annals of Australian crime.

And Then the Darkness is a gripping account of the disappearance in the Australian Outback of English tourist Peter Falconio. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, was found cut, bleeding and wandering the highway, her hands bound. Joanne's account of her ordeal sparked a frenzy of media interest and the biggest manhunt ever mounted in Australia. Questions arose about the police operation and about Joanne herself.

For Private Detective Jack Hamma life never has a dull moment but even Jack can have too much of a good thing. His home is invaded, his car is blown up and someone tris to run him down. The only thing between Jack and oblivion is Jack but can he stay the course? A suspense laden Australian Outback action adventure. 'Jack Hamma is your classic tall dark and handsome hero and it's nice to see Devon Winchester, the modern career woman, not falling for Jacks charms.' 'Book purchased, book read, book thoroughly enjoyed.' 'Fast paced and action packed.’

Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half-sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency - a young man who claims he was abducted the night before. Soon, Rhonda and Baby are entangled in a bizarre yet dangerous case.

With over 55,000 disappearances annually in Australia, each story is a heart-wrenching account of unanswered questions and shattered lives. The narrative spans decades, from the 1980s to present-day mysteries, including the puzzling case of a gentle Greenpeace worker vanishing amidst inner-city Melbourne, the suspicious disappearance of a 21-year-old, and the grim discovery of scattered remains in Queensland, unravelling a harrowing tale of violence and tragedy. And then there is the perplexing case of a man who went missing over and over again.

The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name, wrangling wayward husbands, seeing through deceptive clairvoyants, and rescuing young women (whether they like it or not) with the help of a five-foot cane and her sassy junior constable, Ethel Bromley. When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, Miss Cocks and Ethel are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Dora's workmate goes missing soon after, the women suspect something sinister.

Nick Kaldas is a cop's cop. From investigating war criminals to taking down global drug operations, Kaldas has seen the worst humanity can offer. But he's also seen which human qualities can lead to greatness. This is the compelling true story of an immigrant boy from Egypt who rose from beat cop to become one of the most senior police officers in Australia. During his time in the NSW police force, he was one of Australia's first Arab undercover cops, headed up both the Homicide and Gang Squad units, reformed the Counter Terrorism team and then became the Deputy Police Commissioner.

Extreme sport, a beautiful woman and the Australian outback. Private detective Jack Hamma, the manic Manooka and the beautiful Breanna Amore are climbing a sheer cliff 2,000 feet high. Breanna a seasoned climber is leading. Jack is hanging on to a wafer thin ledge. Breanna moves up, the cliff face gives way. Breanna falls Jack grabs her arm, they are dangling helpless form the cliff. Manooka their only hope, is knocked senseless by the debris. Jack is not having a good day! 'What an emotional rollercoaster of a book.’ ‘Thorogood has done a great job of channeling his inner “fatal ...

When Deacon Brady scored his dream job as the lead actor in an award-winning daytime soap opera, he had the entire world at his feet. Racking up an impressive list of awards and voted People Magazine’s sexiest man alive, the world was his oyster, and he was living it to the fullest at the top of the A-list.

"Chris Franklin's writing leaves you clenching your fists and balling your toes until the end. Mick Hunter is the Australian anti-hero we've been waiting for since Jack Reacher appeared on the scene" - The Bulletin "I haven't read a book so quickly in years, I could not put this down until I found out what happened. This has to be coming to a streaming service very soon if a production company hasn't already read this!!!" - The Saturday Times A missing soldier. A link to the past. A deadly secret. Mick Hunter’s life is simple: backbreaking days working construction in North Queensland and...

Sydney is full of climate refugees. Food and water insecurity have created tension. There is poverty, suspicion and cultural disharmony. A world of have and have nots. In this environment a 5 year old girl from the Floodline, Casey, disappears. Then the body of an auditor from a development company is found burnt in a car on the site where Casey disappeared. Are they related?

In April 2006, fifteen-year-old Oliver went hiking to the lookout on Burning Mountain - and vanished without trace.

My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

When eighteen-year-old Ellie Canning is discovered wandering the countryside, dazed and traumatized, she tells a harrowing story of abduction, captivity, and escape. An overnight symbol of survival and empowerment, Ellie enthralls an outraged nation. Then authorities zero in on an unlikely suspect: high school teacher Suzannah Wells, identified by Ellie as the woman who kept her drugged and bound in a basement. The evidence against Suzannah is damning—vilified by the media, Suzannah’s only defense is that not a single word Ellie says is true. Suzannah has no reason to lie.

A gripping whodunit with an unexpected finale. Jack Hamma, Private Detective, meets the rich and beautiful Katrina de Medici Crest. Jack lives to regret that meeting. He wakes up in a police lock up with no recollection of the night before and under arrest for murder. Jack must untangle a web of intrigue full of twists, turns and jumbled evidence to clear his name. 'So Jack Hamma wakes up in jail where the coffee is disgusting and the inmates worse... and you just know he's going to escape but then it's not what we expect . I'm only up to page 38, but there have already been 3 major plot ...