18 best-selling australia books like The Wife and the Widow by Christian White

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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…

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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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6. 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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7. 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

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • book club
  • 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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8. 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
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • book club
  • audiobook
"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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10. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • book club
  • audiobook
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12. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

Cover of Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) by Margaret Hickey

13. 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
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

14. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1) by Margaret Hickey

17. 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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18. The Soulmate

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge... … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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

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21. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like The Wife and the Widow by Christian White

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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

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

Chris Hammer

3.96

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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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