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  • The Road to Ithaca
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    The Road to Ithaca

    In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and mustinvestigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by SS-Chief Himmler. All the clueslead to a platoon of trigger-happy German...
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  • Heretics
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    Heretics

    In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his parents, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the...
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  • Athenian Blues
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    Athenian Blues

    "So sweet, so calm, so unaffectedly natural... I'd nearly forgotten that the reason she had invited me there was to discuss how I would kill her husband."Stratos Gazis hates being called a contract killer. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes...
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  • Chain of Custody
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    Chain of Custody

    Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking.How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of a well-known lawyer? What services has college student...
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  • A Fine Line
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    A Fine Line

    When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private...
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  • A Cut-Like Wound
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    A Cut-Like Wound

    It's the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari, and expensive pearl earrings. Before the mirror he is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of the city...
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    So Bad a Death
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    So Bad a Death

    The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange, finds her married, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But violent death dogs her footsteps even in apparently tranquil Middleburn. It's...
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    The Big Whatever
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    The Big Whatever

    When it comes to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, Billy's always been in the vanguard, but as the swinging 60s turn into the 70s, he's living a quiet life. He has kids now, and he's in debt to the mob, so he's keeping his head down, driving a cab,...
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    The Devil's Caress
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    The Devil's Caress

    The fourth in Dark Passage's reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil's Caress, originally published in 1952, is a tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne...
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    Faculty of Murder
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    Faculty of Murder

    Age range 12+Mother Paul, June Wright's beloved nun-detective, returns to her sleuthing ways after she takes up a new position as warden of a student hall of residence at the University of Melbourne.No sooner has Judith Mornane arrived on campus than she...
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    Reservation for Murder
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    Reservation for Murder

    June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention - she...
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    Murder in the Telephone Exchange
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    Murder in the Telephone Exchange

    A Rediscovered Queen of Australian Crime Melbourne-born June Wright made quite a splash with the publication of her debut novel, Murder in the Telephone Exchange, in 1948. It was the bestselling mystery in Australia that year, sales outstripping...
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    Duck Season Death
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    Duck Season Death

    June Wright wrote this lost gem in the mid-1950s, but consigned it to her bottom drawer after her publisher foolishly rejected it. Perhaps it was a little ahead of its time? Because while it's a tour de force of the classic country-house murder mystery,...
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    Amaze Your Friends
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    Amaze Your Friends

    As 1959 dawns, Billy Glasheen is in deeper trouble than ever. The past has caught up with him in the form of Fred Slaney, Sydney's meanest, most corrupt cop, who's got Billy framed up for the murder of his crooked partner. Not that Slaney wants to arrest...
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    Coorparoo Blues and the Irish Fandango

    Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds...
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    Get Rich Quick
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    Get Rich Quick

    Winner of three Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Fiction. It's Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy Glasheen is trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he's a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios - whether it's a gambling...
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  • The Bone Road
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    The Bone Road

    Can anyone outrun their past?On a mountain road in the Balkans, former Olympic cyclist Heather Bishop and her journalist boyfriend Richard race each other for fun. But when Richard disappears around a bend in the road, Heather cycles after him only to...
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  • Of Blood Descended
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    Of Blood Descended

    Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII's court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king's late 'black trumpet', John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is...
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  • The Devil's Blaze
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    The Devil's Blaze

    London, 1943.Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the...
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  • A Study in Crimson
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    A Study in Crimson

    LONDON, 1942.A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...
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  • The Edinburgh Skating Club
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    The Edinburgh Skating Club

    When you look at a painting, what do you really see?When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they...
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  • Thirty-One Bones
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    Thirty-One Bones

    When Effie Coulston drops dead on the floor of her bar in a small Spanish town mid-business meeting, her daughter Daniella feels it's her duty to return for the funeral. But Daniella has been estranged from her mother for over twenty years, and Effie's...
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  • Dark Suits And Sad Songs
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    Dark Suits And Sad Songs

    When a senior Edinburgh civil servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch harbour, DCI Jim Daley comes face to face with the murky worldof politics. To add to his woes, two local drug dealers lie dead, ritually assassinated. It's clear that dark...
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  • Crow Court
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    Crow Court

    Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a vicious reputation-is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The...
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  • The Hot Beat
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    The Hot Beat

    A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years. Had LA's hottest bandleader...
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    Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde
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    Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde

    A deftly crafted, scintillating mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde encounter villains with unfathomable, terrifying abilities...1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered, trophies...
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  • Call Me A Cab
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    Call Me A Cab

    The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed. In 1977, one of the world's finest crime novelists turned his pen to...
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    Together We Will Go
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    Together We Will Go

    Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to join him along the way. But this will...
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  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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    The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night... It is 1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he's being threatened via the...
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors

    From the author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon another beautifully presented seasonal mystery. 1889. The First Terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's...
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    Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors
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    Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors

    1889. The First Terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's curse from four hundred years earlier? 1890. The Second Terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his...
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  • Quarry's Blood
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    Quarry's Blood

    The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final fight. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! At the very end of his bloody, clandestine career, the professional hitman known as Quarry...
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  • Suburban Dicks
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    Suburban Dicks

    Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four (soon to be five) children in West Windsor, New Jersey. But one day, a very-pregnant Andie pulls into a gas station-and...
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  • The City of Dr Moreau
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    The City of Dr Moreau

    A visionary new horror novel in the style of Wells' creepiest and most enduring fictions - a future history following the descendants of the Island of Dr Moreau In H G Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau a shipwrecked traveller finds himself...
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  • Two for the Money
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    Two for the Money

    After 16 years on the run, would Nolan bury the hatchet with the mob...or would they bury him first? They don't come tougher than Nolan - but even a hardened professional thief can't fight off the entire Chicago mafia. So when an old friend...
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  • After the Eclipse
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    After the Eclipse

    A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne.Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls.Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while...
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    The Colorado Kid
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    The Colorado Kid

    Stephen King's bestselling unsolved mystery, The Colorado Kid - inspiration for the TV series Haven - returns to bookstores for the first time in 10 years in an all-new illustrated edition.On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is...
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  • Double Down
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    Double Down

    It Takes a Thief to Take a Thief. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains-but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of...
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  • Skim Deep
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    Skim Deep

    The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots...
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  • Invisible Blood
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    Invisible Blood

    A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more, featuring a brand-new Jack Reacher story!Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of...
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    Are Snakes Necessary?
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    Are Snakes Necessary?

    When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the...
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  • This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
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    This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a mind-blowing, gender-bending, genre-smashing romp through the entire pantheon of action and noir.In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A...
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  • All the Best Lies
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    All the Best Lies

    FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the...
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    Ms. Tree
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    Ms. Tree

    The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins! From the minds of author Max Allen Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fourth collection of 5 classic Ms Tree...
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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.

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