Book Title:   BEYOND FEAR

Author:  Jaye Ford

ISBN:   9781864711974

Publisher:   Random House Australia

Year of Publication:   2011



At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers.  Her schoolmate Angie was not so lucky ...



Now thirty-five, Jodie is a teacher and mother of two - and her past is a horror she's buried deep.  When she sets out for a weekend in the country with three friends, all she has in mind are a few…

Book Title:   Something Missing

Author:  Matthew Dicks

ISBN:   9780767930888

Publisher:  Broadway

Year of Publication:   2009



A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he’s been able to steal from the same people for years on end—virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed to his unique business model—he takes only items that…

Book Title:   THE DINOSAUR FEATHER

Author:  Sissel-Jo Gazan

ISBN:   9780857380333

Location:   Denmark

Publisher:   Quercus

Year of Publication:   2011



Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis lying in his lap.



Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is…

Book Title:   THE CALLER

Author:  Karin Fossum

ISBN:  9781846553936

Series:   Inspector Sejer

Publisher:   Harvill Secker

Year of Publication:   2011



One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood.



Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully the…

Book Title:   SHE'S NEVER COMING BACK

Author:  Hans Koppel

ISBN:   9780751547825

Publisher:   Little Brown

Year of Publication:   2012



When Ylva, a loving mother and wife, fails to come home from work, her husband is not initially suspicious.  But as time passes he becomes frantic with worry.  And by the time he finally contacts the police, he is almost hysterical.  Given the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance, he becomes the number one…

Book Title:   THE PRECIPICE

Author:  Virginia Duigan

ISBN:   9781741667165

Publisher:  Vintage Books

Year of Publication:   2011



Thea Farmer, 77, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following an unspecified scandal involving a much younger male teacher. After losing her savings in the financial crash, she is forced to sell the…

Book Title:   COMEBACK

Author:  Peter Corris

ISBN:   9781742377247

Location:   Sydney

Series:   Cliff Hardy

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012



Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney?



Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising.  Bobby's a nice-enough guy, but why is he being stalked by a…

Book Title:   MURDER AND REDEMPTION

Author:  Noel Mealey

ISBN:   978073229366

Location:   Western Australia

Series:   Syd Fielding

Publisher:   Harper Collins

Year of Publication:   2012



Syd Fielding is on a fishing trip when he hears a horrifying scream.... What he doesn't yet know is that a young man is being fed to a saltwater crocodile.



So begins Murder & Redemption, an absorbing crime novel which follows in the traditions of both Peter…

Book Title:   LUTHER THE CALLING

Author:  Neil Cross

ISBN:   9780857203373

Publisher:   Simon & Schuster

Year of Publication:   2011



Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.



He's a murder detective.



A near-genius.



He's brilliant; he's intense; he's instinctive.



He's obsessional. He's dangerous.



DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody…

Book Title: DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

Author:  Chris Allen

ISBN:   9781456545413

Publisher:   Bright Sea Publishing

Year of Publication:   2011



When a seasoned British agent is brutally murdered in the small West African nation of Malfajiri, a sinister plot to overthrow the government and systematically extort the mineral rich, but struggling nation gains rapid momentum.



Enter INTREPID: The Intelligence, Recovery, Protection & Infiltration Division of…

Book Title:   BENT POLLIES

Author:  John Kerr

ISBN:   9781921804236

Publisher:   Kerr Publishing

Year of Publication:   2011



Politicians are said to be bet for lots of reasons.



The crimes of Milton Orkopoulos are barely remembered outside NSW. It is hard enough to stay awake when following the politicians in one's own state perhaps. If he had restricted his criminal activity to personal possession of marijuana the chances are he would never have been…

Book Title:  SCARLET STILETTO - THE SECOND CUT

Edited by:  Phyllis King

ISBN:   9780987160379

Publisher:  Clan Destine Press

Year of Publication:   2011



The Second Cut features a thrilling selection of stories culled from the Scarlet Stiletto Awards held annually by Sisters in Crime Australia.



This sequel to the bestselling First Cut features the 1st Prize winners from 2007 – 2010, and a selection of category winners from the 17-year history of the Scarlet…

Book Title:   DUBLIN DEAD

Author:  Gerard O'Donovan

ISBN:   9781847444073

Publisher:   Sphere

Year of Publication:   2011



One year on, DI Mike Mulcahy is exactly where he wants to be, co-ordinating international intelligence for the Garda National Drugs Unit. With Ireland in economic turmoil, he reckons solving the mystery of how a €100 million shipment of cocaine came to be abandoned off the south coast might save his team from the harsh government…

Book Title:   THE COURIER'S NEW BICYCLE

Author:  Kim Westwood

ISBN:   9780730497714

Publisher:   Harper Collins

Year of Publication:   2011



Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews.



It′s a stressful life, post-pandemic. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility, and the government has banned all remedies except prayer.



Vigilantes…

Book Title:  SCARLET STILETTO - THE FIRST CUT

Edited by:  Lindy Cameron

ISBN:   9780987160362

Publisher:  Clan Destine Press

Year of Publication:   2011



Scarlet Stiletto The First Cut presents a superb collection of spine-chilling crime fiction stories culled from the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.



You’ll find the whole gamut from murder and mayhem to police procedurals and crime in verse. Some will have your blood…

Book Title:   BOUND

Author:  Vanda Symon

ISBN:  9780143565277

Publisher:   Penguin

Year of Publication:   2011



A brutal home invasion shocks the nation. A man is murdered, his wife bound, gagged and left to watch.



But when Detective Sam Shephard scratches the surface, the victim, a successful businessman, is not all he seems to be. And when the evidence points to two of Dunedin's most hated criminals, the case seems cut and dried... until the body count…

Book Title:   MURDERER NO MORE

Author:  Colleen Egan

Category:  True Crime

ISBN:   9781742371177

Publisher:  Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:  2010



In 1994 Pamela Lawrence was brutally bashed to death in her jewellery shop in Perth.  Police suspicion fell on a young drifter named Andrew Mallard.  Although innocent, he was charged and convicted of this murder.



In took twelve years and an epic struggle by Andrew's mother and sister, a team of lawyers…

Book Title:   THE END OF WASP SEASON

Author:  Denise Mina

ISBN:   9781409100966

Publisher:   Orion

Year of Publication:   2011



When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his…

Book Title:   BAD SIGNS

Author:  R.J. Ellory

ISBN:   9781409104773

Publisher:   Orion

Year of Publication:   2011



Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger start life with two strikes against them.  Raised in state institutions, unaware of the world outside, their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row.



Earl…

Book Title:   MIDWINTER SACRIFICE

Author:  Mons Kallentoft

ISBN:   9781444721515

Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton

Year of Publication:   2011



The snow covered all tracks, as the killer knew it would.  But it couldn't hide the victim, the man who now hung naked from a lonely tree on a frozen plain.



Malin Fors is first on the scene.  A thirty-one-year-old single mother, Malin is the most talented and ambitious detective on the Linköping police force, but…