Showing results by publisher "Hachette Australia" in Thriller & Suspense

Ever have the feeling you're being watched? A smart, unsettling, unputdownable literary thriller from the award-winning, critically acclaimed writer Lina and Cain are doing their best to stay afloat. Money has been tight since Cain returned from active duty, and starting a family is proving...

Darwin, Summer, 1963. The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was...

IT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT. WASN'T IT? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller. Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising his former Chief of Police boss...

FINALIST IN THE 2020 NGAIO MARSH AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL 'another breathtaking page-turner from the author of CALL ME EVIE' - Christian White, bestselling author of The Nowhere Child HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY? Amy has only ever known life in the Clearing. She knows what's...

The irresistibly charming and cosy first novel in the bestselling Petticoat Police Mystery series, inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks 'An outstanding debut - funny, poignant, historically fascinating, and an absorbingly good crime read - The Death of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL 2025 'An electrifying and well-crafted Gothic thriller' THE AUSTRALIAN From a startling new Australian talent, The Farm ripples with the Gothic undertones of Rebecca and enthrals from the very first page. The radio sputters out and the...

'A sure-fire page-turner that keeps readers guessing' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Shelley Burr does not take prisoners. Crime fiction at its effortless best - beautifully drawn characters, rich relationships, fast and fascinating plot, and twists that make you go "ah"' LAINIE ANDERSON 'VANISH delivers a...

'A masterpiece' SARAH JONES 'Another soon-to-be classic' Woman's Day 'Riveting and moving' The Australian Women's Weekly Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth can't stop thinking about the secret agent who saved his life in occupied France. He...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025 'Seriously good' DERVLA McTIERNAN 'There's no better storyteller in the thriller game than Pomare' HERALD SUN 'Shocking, twisty and impossible to put down' CHRISTIAN WHITE...

SHORTLISTED FOR BEST CRIME FICTION, 2024 NED KELLY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DANGER AWARD FOR FICTION 'Tantalising . . . A glimpse into a small town that cannot shake the ghosts of its past' Weekend Australian 'Exceptional . . . An amazing and addictive plot loaded with numerous brilliant...

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back...

Evelyn simply vanished. The small town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of New South Wales. Once a thriving outback centre, years of punishing drought have whittled it down to no more than a couple of pubs and a police station. And its one sinister claim to fame: the still-unsolved...

A highly charged crime-thriller - launching an electrifying new series featuring PI Vince Reid - by multi-award-winning prince of the twist, J.P. Pomare. PI Vince Reid is visiting an old friend when he's offered a case he can't refuse: Why did a respected local woman open fire at a political...

A sinister group – code-named Zodiac – has launched devastating global attacks. Twelve targets across the world, twelve code-named missions. Operating distinct sleeper cells, they are the ultimate terrorist organisation, watching and waiting for a precise attack to activate the next group...

'The Grapevine took me hostage . . . Gorgeous writing, complex, nuanced characterisation . . . and the atmospheric setting of Canberra in the summer heat . . . A fascinating, engaging book.' MARIAN KEYES There are secrets behind every closed door in the Warrah Place neighbourhood, and who killed...

An action thriller where the line between the good guys and the bad can be hard to see. It's 2005 and Jed Walker has just joined the CIA. As a ten-year veteran of Air Force Special Operations, Walker is used to being at the pointy end of things. But normally the front line is much further from...

A dead politician. A decades-old unsolved murder. A hornet's nest is about to be stirred. Counter terrorism expert Sid Allen knows nothing good ever comes from a phone call at 5 am. Politician Dan LeRoi, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, has been shot. Four bullets to...

Sidney Allen is a Fed. Part of the Australian Federal Police's K block, a unit doing whatever it takes in order to stop terrorist attacks on home soil. But when young Muslim men on the Terror Watchlist start turning up dead, Sid and his partner, Haifa, have to work out what's going on. Sectarian...

From the #1 Australian bestselling author of Still comes a compelling and cinematic crime thriller that takes us from Sydney to New York in the heady 1980s. The cloth that was over his head and tied tightly around his neck smelled like the army disposal store he'd been to with his father. Lying...

Perfect Family. Perfect Weekend. Perfect Crime. Stay up all night with this twisting thriller... perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Liane Moriarty and Ali Lowe. Turner Corp, a luxury goods empire, has been rocked by the death of its founder. As his three sons gather at the family's opulent estate...