Australian Crime

PRE-ORDER now the new Detective Jason Farrell Australian Crime Thriller by DAVID MENON called DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE - out on January 31. 2025. THE FINAL HOURS ONE MAN HAS PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. ONE BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. ONE TOWN HAS BEEN HIDING DEADLY SECRETS FOR DECADES. Wayne Portman is released after spending forty years in prison for a double murder in the town of Kingsbrook, New South Wales, back in 1977 and for which he has always maintained his innocence. One of the bodies, that of his girlfriend at the time, Fiona, has never been found. Wayne had been a ...

When 11 year old Matty Blackwood vanishes during the Gabinda Rodeo, the sleepy rural town is thrust into a storm of fear and speculation. Detective Joanna Gray, visiting Gabinda to reconnect with her estranged brother is reluctantly pulled into the desperate search for the missing boy. But Joanna is grappling with her own demons. Her long time partner, Detective Sergeant Nick Vada, lies in a coma at the other end of the state, leaving her to face the case and pressure, alone. As the days tick by, Joanna uncovers a web of secrets hidden beneath Gabinda’s small-town charm. With tensions ...

PRE-ORDER now the fourth Detective Jason Farrell Australian Crime thriller 'DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE' - out on January 31,2025. EVERYBODY HAS A COLD BLOODED KILLER IN THEM A man is found sprawled across his bed naked. And dead. He'd been strangled. Evidence shows he hadn't been alone that night. A suspect is quickly identified but are they really guilty? Or are they just an easy target for those who want answers? Detective Jason Farrell and his team at the Kingsbrook, NSW police are intent on finding out. FOR SOME IT'S EASY. NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO THEM THAT WOULD WARRANT THE TAKING OF ...

Whisked into the war-torn city, King must assess a Force Recon Marine who abandoned his post to single-handedly foil an international smuggling ring. Bryson Reed left bodies in his wake, and several high-ranking officials want him discharged or thrown into military prison for his actions. King’s organisation has other ideas, sending King to screen Reed as a potential second recruit to the newly formed Black Force.

In the bustling heart of Sydney, where the iconic harbour ferry connects the city's shores, Detective Sergeant Natalie Campbell is called to investigate when a body is pulled from the water - an apparent suicide that doesn't add up. What begins as a straightforward drowning soon reveals something far darker lurking beneath the surface of Sydney's corporate world. When the victim is identified as David Garton, a quiet accountant whose meticulous nature led him to discover financial irregularities at his shipping company, Natalie must navigate both the complex currents of Sydney Harbour and ...

In Melbourne for a passing visit for a friend's birthday, Detective Sergeant Nick Vada meets the beautiful Evie Gibson. Twenty four hours later he sits in the lockup of the Victorian police headquarters, arrested for murder. Detective Sergeant Eli Roberts is brought onto the case to investigate just what would cause the detective to snap and commit such a horrible crime. Detective Joanna Gray is sent in to assist the investigation and soon finds that not all is what it seems. The Victorian team is sure of Nick's guilt, but a long lost connection between Evie and Melbourne's seedy criminal ...

In the ancient Singing Gorge, where sound travels in mysterious ways and sacred ceremonies have been performed for millennia, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to investigate when ethnomusicologist Dr. Simon Parker is found dead at the base of a cliff. What begins as a possible accidental fall evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between sacred ceremonial recordings and powerful academic, commercial, and political interests. When Odie discovers Parker's recording equipment is missing and evidence of a struggle at the cliff edge, he must ...

You answer a video call on our phone. You see your loved one. Then you watch as they're murdered right in front of your eyes. But there's nothing you can do. And you can't see who their killer is. Detective Jason Farrell and his team investigate a particularly nasty and callous series of murders that all seem to be related in some way to a Kingsbrook businessman who is also suspected of being one of the biggest drug dealers in New South Wales. Can Farrell and his team put a stop to the murders before a drug gang war erupts in the town? And how much danger will it place Farrell's own loved ...

To rogue ex-cop Jack Carlin, running a thug out of town and giving his stolen money to a kid struggling to escape the criminal lifestyle is all in a day’s work. Until it turns out the money belonged to a dangerous drug cartel seeking revenge against anybody who might have been involved in taking what was theirs. With his act of charity ending in bloodshed, Jack won’t let the killers – or his guilty conscience – go unpunished. But how far is he willing to go to enact his own revenge plan? And what happens when the consequences start to hit a little too close to home?

**Australian Killers: 15 Shocking Cases from Down Under**In the land Down Under, a vast and sunburnt continent that harbors untold mysteries, a shadowy underbelly exists—a realm where the most sinister tales of human malevolence reside. "Australian Killers: 15 Shocking Cases from Down Under" beckons you to venture into this dark, gripping world, where reality eclipses the most chilling fiction. **A Dark Journey Across Australia's Criminal Landscape** This eBook is a portal into the annals of Australian criminal history, a compelling exploration of fifteen harrowing true crimes that have ...

When Kiwi backpacker, Cody Short, goes missing on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia, the local police in the town of Secret are out of their depth and are forced to ask for reinforcements. Detective Sergeant Nick Vada is sent with his new partner, Probationary Detective Joanna Gray, to the harsh environment to search for the man, along with looking into the disappearance of another woman who had gone missing on the same station in mysterious circumstances a year earlier. As Nick tries to find answers and give the grieving families some closure, he is forced to tackle some ...

In the drought-stricken region between Warragulla and Merriwa, where dust storms sweep across isolated communities without warning, Detective Maya Thorne investigates the murder of an NBN technician found at a remote telecommunications tower. What begins as a seemingly isolated incident soon reveals a sophisticated conspiracy lurking beneath the surface of this fractured community of less than a thousand souls. When a second communications specialist is murdered during an intensifying dust storm, Maya must navigate both the blinding red haze and the closed ranks of locals harbouring decades...

When 17-year-old Belle Smith is reported missing, the Darfield police are busy helping fight one of the worst bushfires the region has ever faced. Belle seems to have vanished into thin air, and the local police force have no leads. Twenty years later, the case that gripped the nation is resurrected when the smash hit podcast, ‘Into The Flames’ is released, and asks the question: just what happened to Belle Smith? Due to the renewed interest in the cold case, DS Nick Vada is tasked with returning to Darfield to once again look into her disappearance, and soon discovers that nothing here...

Vol 4 in Bush Capital Series. With his career in political journalism a smoking ruin, Paul Ryder becomes a ghost-writer. A legendary West Australian mining tycoon hires him to pen his autobiography. All Paul has to do is write a lot of lies and bank a fat cheque. However, he stumbles upon a dark family secret, gets mixed up in murder, is targeted by Chinese spies and has to flee for his life.

When Sydney private investigator, Gary Maddox, is hired to recover a stolen painting, he plunges deep into the art world and finds himself battling crooks who are smooth, well-dressed and death in a chilled glass.

University professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study by the Post Graduate Co-coordinator, Vera Trenbath, a nosey interfering busybody. Assigned to the case is Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn. Fitzjohn is a detective from the old guard, whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic. His relentless pursuit for the killer zeros in on Alex’s brother, James, as a key suspect in his investigation. Compelled to clear himself of suspicion, James starts his own investigation and finds himself immersed in a web of intrigue, ultimately uncovering long ...

When the hunters become the hunted, ex-CIA agent Jed Walker is the man you need. In 2011, Seal Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden. Now, four years later, someone is eliminating Team Six - one by one they are turning up dead. Jed Walker, ex-CIA, is an outsider back in the game. He's been chasing down a sinister group code-named Zodiac that the big guns - MI5, CIA, the Pentagon - have failed to eradicate. Walker follows the trail of bodies, uncovering secrets and making connections he's not supposed to make.

James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia's toughest jails. This is a brutal and honest account of life inside Australia's toughest jails, and all is not as you would expect. Do women rape each other? Do guards really trade 40-cent phone cards for sex? And do you think the most dangerous inmate in Australia is a man? This is the most comprehensive ever account of women's prison life yet.

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.

Julia Schmidt reckons the suburban library where she works is the most boring place on earth. Then an hobo dies in an armchair. Everyone thinks he died of natural causes. They are wrong, and Julia is soon playing cat-and-mouse with a killer while trying to recover a priceless library book. An Australian comic crime novel with an endearing amateur sleuth.