Book Title:  BABYLON

Author:  Stephen Sewell

ISBN:  9780522858464

Location:  Australia

Publisher:  Victory Books

Year of Publication:  2011



Mick, an English backpacker, heads to the north of Australia for sun, women, and a shot at making a fortune working the shrimp trawlers.



While looking for adventure, Mick hitches a ride with the enigmatic Dan who leads him into more trouble and depravity than even the most reckless traveller could stomach. As the…

Book Title:   ALL MY ENEMIES

Author:  Barry Maitland

ISBN:   9781742376547

Location:   London

Series:   Brock & Kolla

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012



In one of the finest and most pivotal books in this critically acclaimed series, never before published in the U.S., D.S. Kathy Kolla reports to New Scotland Yard and to D.C.I. David Brock's Serious Crime Division.



Just before Kolla is to start her new job, a young woman…

Book Title: SILENCE

Author:  Jan Costin Wagner

ISBN:  9781846551772

Location:  Finland

Series: Kimmo Joentaa

Publisher:  Harvill Secker

Year of Publication: 2010



A young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was murdered, thirty-three years before. The original perpetrator was never brought to justice -- could they have struck again? The eeriness of the crime unsettles not only the…

Book Title:  TOBACCO-STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT

Author:  Andrez Bergen

ISBN:  9780984559701

Location:  Melbourne

Publisher:  Another Sky Press

Year of Publication:  2011



Cut to Melbourne, Australia--the most glamorous city in the world. It also happens to be the only one left standing, but nevermind that, we're there now and I'd like you to meet your narrator, a certain Floyd Maquina, a likable chap with one hell of a story to share.



See, the powers…

Book Title:   THE WRECKAGE

Author:  Michael Robotham

ISBN:   9781847442215

Location:   Baghdad, London

Series:   Vincent Ruiz

Publisher:   Little Brown

Year of Publication:   2011



Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is. His Iraqi-American background has made it easier for him to infiltrate the darkest corners of the war, but death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing…

Book Title:   SLASH AND BURN

Author:  Colin Cotterill

ISBN:  9780857381972

Location:  Laos

Series:  Siri Paiboun

Publisher:  Quercus

Year of Publication:  2011



Dr. Siri was 72 years old in 1974 when he was forced out of retirement and grudgingly became Laos's national coroner. Now he might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he's never loved the job, and he wants to spend some time with his wife before his…

Book Title:  DEVIL-DEVIL

Author:  Graeme Kent

ISBN:   9781569478738

Location:  Solomon Islands

Series:  Ben Kella

Publisher:  Soho

Year of Publication:  2011



It's not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic…

Book Title:   MIDNIGHT IN PEKING

Author:  Paul French

ISBN:   9780143567523

Publisher:   Penguin Australia

Year of Publication:   2012



January 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition - and the clock is ticking down on all of it.



In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese…

Book Title:   THE BETRAYAL

Author:  Y.A. Erskine

ISBN:  9781742750187

Location:  Tasmania

Publisher:  Bantam

Year of Publication:  2012



Tasmania is in the grip of one of the longest, bleakest winters on record and it's particularly icy at the Hobart Police Station. Of the many golden rules in policing, one is especially sacred: what happens at work stays at work.



So when a naive young constable, Lucy Howard, makes an allegation of sexual assault against…

Book Title:   THE MISTAKE

Author:  Wendy James

ISBN:   9781921901041

Location:   New South Wales

Publisher:   Penguin Australia

Year of Publication:   2012



Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she makes the decision to adopt out her baby – and tells nobody.



Twenty-five years on, Jodie has built a whole new life and a whole new family. But when a…

Book Title:  THE NAMESAKE

Author: Conor Fitzgerald

ISBN:   9781408824498

Location:   Italy

Series:   Alec Blume

Publisher:   Bloomsbury

Year of Publication:   2012



When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear warning to the authorities in Rome--a message of defiance and intimidation from a powerful crime syndicate.



Commissioner Alec Blume, interpreting…

Book Title:   PAVING THE NEW ROAD

Author:  Sulari Gentill

ISBN:  9781921997075

Location:  Germany

Series:  Rowland Sinclair

Publisher:  Pantera Press

Year of Publication:  2012



It’s 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening.



Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia’s Führer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not…

Book Title:  BLACKWATTLE CREEK

Author:  Geoffrey McGeachin

ISBN:   9780670075881

Location:   Melbourne

Series:   Charlie Berlin

Publisher:   Penguin

Year of Publication:   2012



It's September 1957, two days before the VFL grand final, and Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin, former bomber pilot and ex-POW, finally has some time off. But there's no rest for Charlie, a decent but damaged man still troubled by his wartime experiences. A recently widowed friend…

Book Title:   A DARK AND BROKEN HEART

Author:  R.J. Ellory

ISBN:   9781409124146

Location:   USA

Publisher:   Orion

Year of Publication:   2012



It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place and who could they turn to for help?



Madigan is charming, resourceful, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to Sandià - the drug king…

Book Title:   HELL'S FURY

Author:  PD Martin

Location:  USA

Publisher:   Murderati Ink / Amazon Ebook

Year of Publication:   2012





She lies in an Afghani prison cell, disowned by the CIA and regularly tortured. Seven months into her prison term, a lone operator stages a daring extraction. But who is Decker, the mysterious man behind her rescue?



He claims to represent The Committee, an international group made up of ex-professionals from the CIA, FBI,…

Book Title:   ZERO HOUR IN PHNOM PENH

Author:  Christopher G Moore

ISBN:  9789741030460

Location:  Thailand Cambodia Phnom Penh

Series:  Vincent Calvino

Publisher:  Heaven Lake Press

Year of Publication:  2008



In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the…

Book Title:   IN HER BLOOD

Author:  Annie Hauxwell

ISBN:  9781921901171

Location:  London

Series:  Catherine Berlin

Publisher:  Penguin

Year of Publication:  2012



Everyone is hooked on something.



It's not that easy to kick the money habit. After the world meltdown forces London's bankers to go cold turkey, people look elsewhere for a quick quid: the old fashioned East End.



So when investigator Catherine Berlin gets an anonymous tip-off about…

Book Title:   SILENT VALLEY

Author:  Malla Nunn

ISBN:  9781742610887

Location:  South Africa

Series:  Emmanuel Cooper

Publisher:  Pan MacMillan Australia

Year of Publication:  2012



A remote town. A girl of rare and exquisite beauty. A murder that silences a whole community.



The body of a seventeen-year-old girl has been found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the Drakensberg Mountains, near Durban. She is the daughter of a Zulu chief, destined…

Book Title:   POET'S COTTAGE

Author:  Josephine Pennicott

ISBN:  9781742610894

Location:  Tasmania

Publisher:  Pan MacMillan Australia

Year of Publication:  2012



Poets had always lived there, the locals claimed. It was as if the house called to its own...



When Sadie inherits Poet's Cottage in the Tasmanian fishing town of Pencubitt, she sets out to discover all she can about her notorious grandmother, Pearl Tatlow. Pearl was a children's writer who…

Book Title:   PROMISE

Author:  Tony Cavanaugh

ISBN:   9780733628474

Location:   Queensland, Noosa

Series:  Darian Richards

Publisher:  Hachette Australia

Year of Publication:  2012



Top Homicide cop Darian Richards has been seeking out monsters for too long. He has promised one too many victim's families he will find the answers they need and it's taken its toll. Now retired, a series of disappearances see him return to the gun. On his terms. But he knows,…