Chris Hammer

Master crime writer Chris Hammer returns with his first standalone blockbuster thriller. ‘If there is enough money involved, truth becomes a tradeable commodity. Like gold, it is malleable; it can be melted down and recast without losing its value.’ Travis Somerland is a man accustomed to...

In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they please. Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the...

The updated edition of a bestselling classic, with a new introduction from award-winning author Chris Hammer. Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea.

In Riversend, an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest steps out of his church and calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden...

The coast and its people help define our identity. Most Australians live in suburbia, but our hearts are elsewhere.

Martin Scarsden returns in the sequel to the bestselling Scrublands. For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde...

The gripping new Martin Scarsden novel. She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her...

WINNER OF THE ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a...

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven. Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back – as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet. A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary...

A stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and Treasure & Dirt. A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder - a 'file...

Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door in Chris Hammer's next blockbuster crime novel. MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM – OR BURY HIM? The sound hits them, a shock wave…glass...

Hitze. Mord. Rätsel. Schuld. Erlösung: der atemberaubende Nr.1-Bestseller-Thriller aus Australien Rivers End, ein Städtchen in der...

En Riversend, en un pueblo rural azotado por una sequía interminable, un joven sacerdote abre fuego desde la escalinata de su iglesia y mata a cinco vecinos antes de ser acribillado. Un año después, el periodista Martin Scarsden llega al aislado pueblo para escribir un artículo sobre el...