Australian Crime

Can you catch a killer or find a missing person? Australia is 'the lucky country'. But not for everyone. Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls tells thirteen stories of people whose luck ran out in the most mysterious of circumstances. It's a journalistic deep-dive into Australia's dark...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He’s dead. The police say suicide. She knows better. Twenty years after leaving Bennington, journalist Audrey Lord is back on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula with two kids, a distant husband, and a job at the local paper she never wanted. When her...

From the award-winning co-writer of The Gone comes a gripping new crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise. Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life. A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a...

The Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive work collected from memory, mates, word of mouth and decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history.

Including oft-told legendary yarns, reminiscences from the shearing shed, tall stories from the bush, sporting yarns, railway yarns, stories from the world of show business, digger yarns from both world wars, convict and bushranger yarns and anecdotes from the colonial days, yarns from shanties and gold rushes, ghost stories, bunyips and yowies, hauntings, and weird happenings.

A psychological crime thriller based on real events inside Australia’s toughest maximum-security prison. A prison officer knows the rules. He also knows how to break them. Jacob Daniels has spent two decades enforcing order inside one of Australia’s most dangerous maximum-security prisons...

A murder is witnessed by thousands, but who pulled the trigger? Dahlia and Duncan Crews are rich, famous, glamorous - they share their lifestyle and picture-perfect family with hundreds of thousands of online subscribers. The Crews have it all - until they don't. Shot dead in the middle of a...

Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of 1980s Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. “It took me a long time and most of the world to...

Of course they would come for me eventually. How could I have ever thought they wouldn't? For as long as Betty can remember, 43 Hanger Hill has been more than just her childhood home: it's a house haunted by whispers. Some of the rumours are vague. Others disturbingly specific . . . On the...

Tara has only been half-alive since her best friend Ally disappeared decades ago. When her past reappears, Tara is forced to revisit places and secrets she would do anything to forget. Tara has come a long way from the world in which she grew up. She routinely conceals her past, until a...

When the motive is revenge, murder is not enough. Disgraced journalist Xander McAuslan and his Vietnam veteran and erstwhile cave-dwelling survivalist mate Lorenzo are in grave danger - a situation exacerbated by the fact that they have no idea their recent past is about to catch up with them. A...

The blistering new standalone thriller from Australia's King of Crime NO ONE CAN RUN FOREVER Grace is a thief - a good one. But she's always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It's not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate forces her to lie low in a...

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance...

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It's a peaceful...

When an assassination attempt in a prison cell winds up with the wrong man dead, Lee Southern is hired to protect the real target. The millennium is just weeks away and rumours of a complete technological meltdown have guards and prisoners on edge. As violence simmers, tensions ignite, and...

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly. Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the...