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  • The Summer of Kim Novak
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    The Summer of Kim Novak

    In this brilliant Swedish thriller and sensitive coming-of-age story, a traumatic event shatters the summer of two boys in love with their young teacher.Sweden in the '60s. Erik and his friend Edmund spend their vacation by a forest lake daydreaming...
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  • The Darkness that Divides Us
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    The Darkness that Divides Us

    Beautiful, happy people? No. Outcasts, bullies, a bizarre murder, drama, mystery, a child's heartache? Yes.Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her...
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  • Sybil's Trials
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    Sybil's Trials

    Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had...
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  • Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love
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    Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love

    A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jignesh hadn't paid his share of the rent just yet. It...
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  • Underneath
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    Underneath

    Over a five-year period, Martha Johnson murders her four children, one by one, in order to punish her husband when they argue, but Martha is no ordinary serial killer. She murders her children by using the bulk of her 250-pound body to suffocate them...
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    Shadow on the Trail
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    Shadow on the Trail

    In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all-time, is the story of one such man...
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  • One Simple Thing
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    One Simple Thing

    When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver's mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner--and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man's influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time...
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  • Red Dust
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    Red Dust

    Age range 14+From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading...
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine

    The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she...
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    The Mechanic
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    The Mechanic

    A story of justice through the ages . . . and revenge. Germany, 1945. The bloodiest war in history is at an end. Now the retribution and search for justice begins. In a series of Nuremberg trials, war criminals are hanged or commit suicide. Others are...
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  • Karl Marx Private Eye
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    Karl Marx Private Eye

    A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian...
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  • The Blast
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    The Blast

    San Francisco, 1916. The streetsroiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrialbarons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu andthe forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of...
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  • Jewish Noir II
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    Jewish Noir II

    Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemn, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J...
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  • Jewish Noir
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    Jewish Noir

    Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy...
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  • Jouney to the South
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    Jouney to the South

    In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncover mysterious deaths of two brothers: one was murdered...
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  • The Silverberg Business
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    The Silverberg Business

    Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons An eldritch Western noirAuthor has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022
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  • Bones Under the Ice
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    Bones Under the Ice

    Jhonni Laurent is the first female sheriff of Field's Crossing, Indiana-and now she has her first murder caseTwo days after a blizzard hits Field's Crossing, Indiana, Sheriff Jhonni Laurent discovers the frozen body of a high school senior under a...
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  • The Blood of Patriots and Traitors
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    The Blood of Patriots and Traitors

    2023 Best Books Award for Best Thriller/Adventure NovelA Russian Defector- A Worldwide Dragnet- A Looming Assassination- Max Geller is back in MoscowFormer CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia,...
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  • Misfire
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    Misfire

    A device that can save a life is also one that can end itKadence, a new type of implanted defibrillator, misfires in a patient visiting University Hospital for a routine medical procedure-causing the heart rhythm problem it's meant to correct. Dr. Kate...
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  • Head Shot
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    Head Shot

    The Most Elusive Assassin in the World Versus D.C. Homicide Detective Marko ZornWashington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is investigating the murder of an actress-an old love-when he is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro,...
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  • Last Redemption
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    Last Redemption

    San Diego Writer's Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning AuthorWill Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child-or will sadistic killers murder him first?Rick Cahill is...
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  • The OC
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    The OC

    Thrill-a-minute crime fiction-infused with wry humorRestaurant owner and former professional baseball player Jake Longly is hoping for a few weeks of fun with Nicole Jamison in the warm Orange County, CA sun-The OC, baby. After that, they'll be on their...
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  • Shadow Music
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    Shadow Music

    Winner of the IPPY Gold Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and the Foreword INDIES Gold AwardOvercoming loss-finding the courage to move on-trying to stay aliveLate in the Cold War, a young woman escapes from Communist Hungary, vanishing into...
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  • Duplicity
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    Duplicity

    This was not the homecoming Brick envisionedAfter the trauma of his last case, and after three months spent recovering in Ireland, life is looking up for newly retired homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh. Back home in Washington, D.C., a new job...
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  • Bombay Monsoon
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    Bombay Monsoon

    The last thing Danny wants to see published is his obituaryThe year is 1975. Danny Jacobs is an ambitious, young American journalist who' s just arrived in Bombay for a new assignment. He' s soon caught up in the chaos of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi' s...
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  • Mystic Wind
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    Mystic Wind

    National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Legal ThrillerAmerican Fiction Award Winner for Legal Thriller2022 American Fiction Award Winner for Legal ThrillerThe last remaining fragment of truth-hidden in the mire of the Mystic CreekBoston...
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  • The Scorned
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    The Scorned

    Ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson stumbles into a criminal organization that exploits women and children-he must fight his way out and homeBruno Johnson is hiding out from the U.S. law in Costa Rica with his pregnant wife, Marie, and the ten kids they rescued...
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  • Fatal Intent
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    Fatal Intent

    End-of-life care-or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate...
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  • Doomed Legacy
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    Doomed Legacy

    Foreword INDIES Bronze Award in Thriller and SuspenseA sinister private detective agency, a shady shell corporation, and a dead friend-Rick Cahill is on his most dangerous mission yetPrivate investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and...
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  • The Bucharest Dossier
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    The Bucharest Dossier

    *Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers*Bill Hefflin is a man apart - apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love.At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin - a...
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  • Blind Vigil
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    Blind Vigil

    Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Author A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now...
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  • It's News to Me
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    It's News to Me

    Dashed dreams: she wanted to run for president one day, now she' s dead at 20When Riley Hunt- a beautiful, smart, popular student at Easton College in Manhattan- is brutally murdered, it becomes a big story for TV newswoman Clare Carlson.After days of...
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    The File
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    The File

    Review from the former Director of the C.I.A.A thoroughly enjoyable, engrossing thriller with a captivating young, beautiful American botanist at the center of the fast paced action. Rooting for Sara West as she evades a Russian assassination team...
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  • Evil Dead Center
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    Evil Dead Center

    AnOjibwa woman has been found dead on the outskirts of the Minnesota Red EarthReservation. The coroner ruled the death a suicide, but after some suggest foulplay was involved, Renee LaRoche wants to prove otherwise, uncovering horribletruths and working...
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  • The Hollow Needle
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    The Hollow Needle

    LARGE PRINT EDITION.The Hollow Needle (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Originally serialized in in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, The Hollow Needle is a crime and adventure novel featuring the legendary Arsne Lupin. Partly based on the...
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  • Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes
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    Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes

    LARGE PRINT EDITION.Arsne Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Forced to change the name of his antagonist following a legal challenge by Holmes' creator, Leblanc still manages to pull off one of the greatest fictional mashups...
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    Inhuman Trafficking
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    Inhuman Trafficking

    A fast-paced thriller in the tradition of John Grisham, Joseph Finder, and John LescroartFor Nick "Deke" Deketomis, going where angels fear to tread in waging legal battles has long been a way of life. As managing partner for one of the nation's largest...
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    The Best Stories of Arsne Lupin
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    The Best Stories of Arsne Lupin

    Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc createdArsne Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been...
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    Bell of the Desert
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    Bell of the Desert

    A grand historical novel about Gertrude Bell, one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British...
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    The Mountain Master of Sha Tin

    In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava becomes embroiled in a violent war between feuding gangs vying for control of the Wanchai territory in Hong Kong.Ava is in Shanghai visiting her ailing friend, the Mountain Master Xu, when a triad war...
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    Sherlock Holmes: Classic Stories
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    Sherlock Holmes: Classic Stories

    In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied at the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace.So writes Dr. Watson,...
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  • Death on Allhallowe'en
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    Death on Allhallowe'en

    Carolus Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed "accidental" death of a young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolus Deene has...
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  • Easy Death
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    Easy Death

    'TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS... ...and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard...
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  • Stargazer
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    Stargazer

    It's a fine line between admiration and envy.Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter,...
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  • Mad, Bad and Dead
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    Mad, Bad and Dead

    A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet...Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub with her childcare responsibilities for her orphaned...
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  • The Lost Girls
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    The Lost Girls

    In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's summer house on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father takes his own life, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at...
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  • On The Edge
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    On The Edge

    Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

Step into the thrilling world of crime & mystery books at Bookloop, Australia’s premier destination for the best crime fiction, thrillers, detective novels, and mystery books. Whether you're searching for the latest crime novels that are trending, timeless detective classics, or spine-tingling psychological thrillers, we have a collection designed for every mystery lover. Discover the finest crime books that take you deep into gripping investigations, cold cases, and twisted plotlines.

At Bookloop, you can explore bestselling crime fiction authors, such as Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as modern masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Tana French. Our collection includes thrillers with edge-of-your-seat action, detective novels that feature iconic sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and mystery books packed with mind-bending puzzles and clever twists. Dive into true crime books that chronicle real-life cases, or immerse yourself in psychological thrillers that explore the darkest corners of the human mind.

Looking for crime novels like Agatha Christie, whodunit mystery books, or a thriller novel with a shocking twist? Our collection includes best crime fiction books, new crime novels, and mystery novels for adults that will keep you up at night. Find the best psychological thrillers, detective stories for adults, and gripping crime stories that will satisfy even the most avid crime fiction reader.

Explore our true crime novels that examine the most famous criminal cases, and browse through suspenseful thriller books that bring suspense to the forefront. We have a wide range of mystery books for all ages, from children’s mystery books to adult crime novels. Whether you're looking for the best crime books to read, want to dive into a detective mystery series, or simply enjoy a crime fiction thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page, you’ll find it all here at Bookloop.

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