20 must-read suspense books like Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1) by Chris Hammer

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Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo…

If you liked the suspense plot in Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1) by Chris Hammer , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

By: Garry Disher

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"

-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

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2. The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

By: Jane Harper

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1) book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Drowning

By: Bryan Brown

3.56

Format: 288 pages, ebook

With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy , Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice cont… read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Day's End (Hirsch, #4) by Garry Disher

8. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

By: Garry Disher

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
Cover of Wake (PI Lane Holland #1) by Shelley Burr

9. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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11. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Paradise (DS Walker, #2) by Patricia Wolf

13. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) by Margaret Hickey

15. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

16. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Gone

By: Glenna Thomson

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing girl ... a cold case ... a sister who won’t give up … 'I was there on the day Rebecca … read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1)

By: Margaret Hickey

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterio… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. Murder Town

By: Shelley Burr

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harper's The Lost Man book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

Cover of Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3) by S.R. White

25. Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3)

By: S.R. White

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) by Dinuka McKenzie

26. 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

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) book and Chris Hammer's Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Consolation (Hirsch, #3) by Garry Disher

28. Consolation (Hirsch, #3)

By: Garry Disher

4.16

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is steal… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Peace (Hirsch, #2) by Garry Disher

29. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Creeper

By: Margaret Hickey

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Victim ... or killer?For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high c… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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  • audiobook

31 best-selling fiction books like Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1) by Chris Hammer

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Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

Garry Disher

4.04

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The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

Jane Harper

4.32

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Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

Jane Harper

3.24

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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21 Best fiction books like What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

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Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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