17 Top thriller books like The Drowning by Bryan Brown

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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…

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1. 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
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
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3. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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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8. The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2)

By: Adrian Hyland

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder made to look like an accident. A disgraced cop trying to forget his past. Nash Baker was… read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of contr… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. A Shadow at the Door

By: Jo Dixon

3.84

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a vividly portrayed story that revea… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • book club
Cover of Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) by Dinuka McKenzie

13. 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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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Good Dog (Detective Zoe Mayer #3)

By: Simon Rowell

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

After gunshots echo through the summer night on Mount Macedon, Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer and her… read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. The Radio Hour

By: Victoria Purman

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the gold… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no …"

-Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

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17. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

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  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Call

By: Gavin Strawhan

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deport… read more

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  • suspense
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Smoke

By: Michael Brissenden

3.53

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

What secrets lie in the ashes? After a brutal wildfire tears through the town of Jasper in the C… read more

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  • crime
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20. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Last Trace

By: Petronella McGovern

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

18 Top fiction books like The Drowning by Bryan Brown

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The Drowning

Bryan Brown

3.56

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Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

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The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

Chris Hammer

4.23

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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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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