Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Femme Fatale of the Australian Underworld
By: Leigh Straw
3.60
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know... This…
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1. The Confidence Gap
By: Russ Harris
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Too many of us miss out on opportunities in life because we lack self-confidence. Whether it's publ… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Little Paris Bookshop
By: Nina George , Simon Pare
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even … read more
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3. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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- crime
"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
4. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
5. Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher, #22)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia's favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fishe… read more
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- crime
- australia
6. The Wife and the Widow
By: Christian White
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more
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- crime
- australia
7. The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thrill… read more
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- crime
8. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly “… read more
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- crime
9. Paradise (DS Walker, #2)
By: Patricia Wolf
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coas… read more
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- crime
- australia
10. The Mother
By: Jane Caro
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just somet… read more
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- crime
- australia
"There's no need to charm your mother, she thought. Which is both a compliment and a burden."-Jane Caro, The Mother
"The pall bearers were holding Pete's coffin, waiting to walk down the aisle—just like bridesmaids. The music began and they started to move, trying to keep pace with David Bowie's 'Changes'."-Jane Caro, The Mother
11. Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
4.00
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's … read more
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- crime
- australia
12. The Unbelieved
By: Vikki Petraitis
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pi… read more
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- crime
- australia
13. Badness
By: Gary Jubelin
4.08
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- biography
- true crime
14. CSI Told You Lies
By: Meshel Laurie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forens… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- australia
15. Atalanta
By: Jennifer Saint
3.78
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne , a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta… read more
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"I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"I missed the spread of the sky above me. Sometimes as I lay awake, I yearned so powerfully for freedom; for the dark silhouette of the Argo, blotting out the stars behind it; the promise of another j…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"Standing in the shadows, gathering my resolve. I'd been among too many people, living according to their rules for too long. It was clouding my vision, gnawing away at my confidence and certainty, ma…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
16. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- australia
17. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
By: India Holton
3.67
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming h… read more
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"I love a horizon. . .That feeling of longing, of mystery and distant magic, pulls always on my soul. I suppose that's where my mother must be. Roaming through the afterlight, stealing heaven. . ."-India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
"I needed a book in case of emergencies." "You mean like being attacked by foul-mouthed highwaymen?" "No, I mean those moments when nothing important is happening, such as during travel. After supper.…"-India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
"You're fully ruined now," he murmureed, smiling wryly. "No," she breathed. "I was rurined the moment I laid eyes on you. Uttterly ruined for everything else, evermore." "Told you so." "Fiend." She fr…"-India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
"It landed on Cecilia's hat, which exploded in a puff of smoke and feathers. Everyone stared at it. "Oh dear," Constantinopla said after a shocked moment. "What will you do, Cecilia? You're now expose…"-India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
18. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
3.90
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more
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- crime
- australia
19. Cry Wolf
By: Hans Rosenfeldt
3.51
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
A DEAD WOLFA DRUG DEAL GONE WRONGA LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSIN The first book in a new series by Hans Ro… read more
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- crime
20. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
4.06
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more
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- crime
- australia
21. The Widow of Walcha
By: Emma Partridge
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- australia
22. Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
By: Nicole Morris
4.31
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
They just vanished … Disappeared. Gone. Lost. No answers. Still missing. Imagine the pain, conf… read more
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- crime
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"I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us."-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
"I just kept living in hope, but I’ve got used to that fact now. The hope is gone. I still dream about her, and I still have nightmares about her. It gets easier to cope with, but it never leaves"-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
"It’s tough. When my own son goes out, it’s natural to worry, but I get really paranoid. I worry that something’s going to happen, or he’s going to go missing when he goes out. I’m very protective of …"-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
"Sometimes as a family we don’t like to talk about it because all this stuff is going through our heads about what could have happened to him. It upsets us because we didn’t want him to suffer. We jus…"-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
23. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
By: Ann Wolbert Burgess
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more
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- crime
- history
- true crime
24. Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl
By: Fiona Britton
3.30
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Phryne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper. A centur… read more
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- crime
- australia
"At school you learn about devils and demons, she mused. You think monsters are mystical. But the day you look evil in the eye you recognise it. It wears a dark suit, and smells of cedarwood and singl…"-Fiona Britton, Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl
25. Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia
By: Mark Tedeschi
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC … read more
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26. Maybe the Horse Will Talk
By: Elliot Perlman
3.40
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’Stephen Maserov has problems. A oneti… read more
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27. 100 Tales from Australia’s Most Haunted Places
By: Ben Pobjie
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 100 Tales from Australia’s Most Haunted Places, Ben Pobjie communes with the spirit world to rev… read more
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28. The Suitcase Baby
By: Tanya Bretherton
3.47
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
SYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from th… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- australia
- crime
29. Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Femme Fatale of the Australian Underworld
By: Leigh Straw
3.60
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know... This… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- australia
- crime
30. The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II Sydney
By: Tanya Bretherton
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- australia
- crime
31. Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison
By: James Phelps
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever … read more
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