- Blue Moon – Lee Child
“This is a random universe,” Reacher said. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
Follow the adventures of Jack Reacher in a city plagued by two ruthless rival criminal gangs, and a mysterious old man with a wad of cash.
- In Darkness Visible – Tony Jones
In 2005, Marin Katich, living in Croatia under an alias, is being watched. By the end of that year, he has been assaulted, arrested, charged with serious war crimes and sits in Scheveningen Prison in the Hague, waiting for his case to come before the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Anna Rosen, a freelance journalist in Sydney, is sent photos on her computer of a man she knows to be dead—gunned down in an ambush in Bosnia. A man about whom she’d thought a lot. Is it possible that the photos really are of Marin Katich? And if so, what the hell had happened in 1992?
From Croatia to The Hague to Bosnia & Herzegovina to Sydney, Anna and Marin’s intertwining history fuels her determination to tear apart, piece-by-piece, his secrets, as Anna continues to hide from him the secret she’s kept for thirty years. In a dangerous pursuit of justice and revenge, navigating the murky world of national and international secret agencies and those who would still be warlords, Anna fights for what she believes in and for those she loves.
In Darkness Visible blurs the lines between fiction and political reality, creating a page-turning, intriguing and gripping political thriller.
- The Art of Dying – Ambrose Parry
In the second gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, patients are dying across the city with doctors finding their remedies powerless. At the same time, a whispering campaign seeks to blame the esteemed Dr James Simpson for a death in suspicious circumstances. Simpson’s protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron’s name. But soon they discover that the true cause of these deaths has evaded suspicion purely because it is so unthinkable.
- Impossible Causes – Julie Mayhew
In this brilliantly dark thriller about isolated communities, rumours and suspicion, a deeply religious island with a history of paganism is riven when a man is found dead in a stone circle. As rumours spread and tensions rise, three Lark teenage girls and a new arrival from the mainland find themselves accused of witchcraft and murder. Eerie and menacing, timely and moving, Impossible Causes is an unputdownable thriller that examines the consequences of silence kept at a young women’s expense.
- Springtime – Michelle de Kretser
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
- Dead Man Switch – Tara Moss
Determined not to rely on any man for her future, Billie Walker re-opens her late father’s detective agency.
Billie’s bread and butter is tailing cheating spouses. But her latest case, the disappearance of a young man, is not proving straightforward.
Soon Billie is up to her stylish collar in bad men, and not just the unfaithful kind. Billie and her loyal assistant must pit their wits against Sydney’s ruthless underworld and find the young man before it’s too late.
- You Don’t Know Me – Sara Foster
Tom Carruso hasn’t been home in over a decade. He left soon after his first crush Lizzie disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he’s back for the inquest into Lizzie’s death – intent on telling his side of the story.
As the inquest looms, Noah meets Alice Pryce on holiday. They fall for each other fast and hard, but Noah can’t bear to tell Alice his deepest fears. And Alice is equally stricken – she carries a terrible secret of her own. Is the truth worth telling if it will destroy everything?
