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  • Death by Two Hands Death by Two Hands
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    Death by Two Hands

    ‘One brown mouse. Victim of foul play.’Chalk Street, Camden Town, is the busy scene for all kinds of commercial activity – some legal, some a little less so. By day, local crime boss Mr. Rivers works as a market trader, but gladly turns...
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  • He Shot to Kill He Shot to Kill
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    He Shot to Kill

    His arms were hanging down, but his face was turned upwards. For the first time Johnny saw a dead man.Colonel Meroy is a prosperous pillar of the landed gentry. But his neighbours would be shocked to learn he’d started out as a London pickpocket,...
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  • Murder by Chance Murder by Chance
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    Murder by Chance

    The knife with the carved sheath inlaid with silver, had been driven up to its haft between the shoulders of Captain Geoffrey Hunt.Johannis Kudorfer, master mariner, is a fraudster and a rogue. But that suits Sam Hartford just fine, because he is a...
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  • What Dread Hand? What Dread Hand?
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    What Dread Hand?

    Before she could touch him she saw it—the handle of a weapon sticking out between his shoulder-blades. Playwright Martin Pitt’s acclaimed new play, The Lily Flower, is having its London premiere. When the curtain rises, in attendance are the...
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  • The Crime Coast The Crime Coast
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    The Crime Coast

    A tragic discovery was made at Bishop’s Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.Paul Ashby is excited to be heading off...
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  • CRUEL CINDERELLA CRUEL CINDERELLA
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    CRUEL CINDERELLA

    Debut Novel by C.H.Darkling,"He loved her and she loved him...but it wasn't that simple."A CORRUPT STEPMOTHER, A LUSTY QUEEN AND WICKED STEPSISTERSEvil never looked so good! My Cruel Cinderella is treacherous, vengeful and in love with the Devil's two...
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  • Body in the Woods Body in the Woods
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    Body in the Woods

    One foul night while her husband is away, an old friend turns up on Claire’s doorstep and begs for her help. She knows she should refuse, but she owes him. Despite her better judgement, Claire finds herself helping to bury something in the woods...
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  • Chef Maurice and the Wrath of Grapes Chef Maurice and the Wrath of Grapes
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    Chef Maurice and the Wrath of Grapes

    BOOK #2 IN SERIESIn the rarefied world of wine collecting, murder isn't exactly a barrel of laughs... An invitation to dinner at the home of renowned wine collector Sir William Burton-Trent soon finds Chef Maurice in the middle of an all-too-real...
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  • Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle
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    Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle

    BOOK #1 IN SERIES"They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed."Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirot-esque murder mystery, add a larger-than-life French chef with an...
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  • Snares of Death Snares of Death
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    Snares of Death

    Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he also has an unshakable faith in his own righteousness, and a real talent for rubbing people up the wrong way...
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  • Drink of Deadly Wine Drink of Deadly Wine
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    Drink of Deadly Wine

    Father Gabriel Neville has everything going for him as vicar of St Anne's, Kensington Gardens: intellectual prowess, physical beauty, a happy family life and the prospect of promotion to Archdeacon. But his perfect world is shattered when he receives an...
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  • SMOKE SCREEN SMOKE SCREEN
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    SMOKE SCREEN

    In this sequel to the acclaimed novel and Wishing-Shelf Awards finalist, The Sixth Pillar, we again follow the exploits of former SAS officer Rory Calderwood, as he tries to rebuild his life following his time on the North Sea Gas rig. He has now...
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  • A Just and Upright Man A Just and Upright Man
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    A Just and Upright Man

    Shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society's 2015 Indie Prize, A Just and Upright Man shows us life in northeast England in the 1760s not as lived by the rich and powerful but from the point of view of those at the bottom of the heap. Life was...
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom

    This new work is currently the only book devoted to the teaching of one of the most canonical and frequently taught American authors. These specially commissioned essays incorporate biographical, literary, historical, and multidisciplinary scholarship.
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  • The Case of the Bonfire Body The Case of the Bonfire Body
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    The Case of the Bonfire Body

    “It’s terrible. It’s a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands.”Who is—or was—the headless, handless corpse, found discarded on a bonfire? This baffling case of identity leads to a dead doctor who, according to...
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  • To Sit in Solemn Silence To Sit in Solemn Silence
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    To Sit in Solemn Silence

    When senior detective Saul Catchpole takes his family to a production of the Mikado, he has no idea that soon he will be investigating a gruesome murder on the stage and finding out that within the operatic society things are seldom what they seem. Soon...
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  • Current of Death Current of Death
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    Current of Death

    Sylvia Vetta, the author of Brushstrokes in Time set in China and the USA and Not so Black and White (with Nancy Mudenyo Hunt) set in London and west Kenya comes close to home in CURRENT of DEATH
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  • The Long Siesta The Long Siesta
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    The Long Siesta

    A sadistic serial killer is at large in Seville - with a taste for priests; drug-addicted Detective Velazquez is working against the clock to uncover the murderer while tackling his own problems, including the kidnapping of his bullfighter girlfriend...
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  • It was An Accident It was An Accident
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    It was An Accident

    Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He...
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  • Brown Bread in Wengen Brown Bread in Wengen
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    Brown Bread in Wengen

    The trail leads to Switzerland. The whole gang decamps to Wengen in the high Alps - Noreen Hurlock, Jimmy Foley, Rameez Ahmed, Paulette James, Mercedes Marty Fisherman and Wayne Sapsford, not to mention DS TT Holdsworth and warrant officer George...
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  • Ten Trails to Tyburn Ten Trails to Tyburn
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    Ten Trails to Tyburn

    'But Pierre could never know that in death Fame was his, for his was the second corpse.' When a well-known local vagrant nicknamed "Peter the Hermit" dies of seemingly natural causes, the police uncover an old Bulgarian newspaper and a beautiful...
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  • Work for the Hangman Work for the Hangman
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    Work for the Hangman

    "What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn't come to one in a million people." Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of the recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who fell and drowned...
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  • A Case for Solomon A Case for Solomon
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    A Case for Solomon

    "Frank Hugh Smallwood was first murdered on the 15th of April, 1927" Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been murdered nearly...
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  • Soul For Hire Soul For Hire
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    Soul For Hire

    Swear the truth on a bullet...        or it’s coming back for youVince Argus made a deal with the Devil -The power to avenge his slaughtered familyin exchange for his immortal soul.For a price he will end a...
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  • The Nightmare Strikes The Nightmare Strikes
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    The Nightmare Strikes

    For the crimes the police cannot solveFor the criminals the law cannot punishFor the menaces that defy logic and reasonThere is …The NightmareOne of many brave men and women who wear have donned mask and cloak to mete out justice when the law had failed,...
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  • THE GREY MONK THE GREY MONK
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    THE GREY MONK

    "Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord... and I am His Agent!"... A grim, hooded figure armed with blazing .45's stalks the streets meting out Justice to whatever Evil he encounters, from Drug Dealing Hoodlums to Thuggees of the Cult of Kali...
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  • Cover-Up of a Royal Murder Cover-Up of a Royal Murder
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    Cover-Up of a Royal Murder

    Cover-up of a Royal Murder is a thorough investigation of the British inquiry - the Paget report - into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed. It uses eye-witness, documentary and other evidence to prove that the conclusions drawn in the...
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  • A Gathering of Crows A Gathering of Crows
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    A Gathering of Crows

    The Miller-Croft family, much respected in and around London and further afield in the market town of Meadowbank where the matriarch, Catherine Miller-Croft, had made her home for over forty years, but like many families, the Miller-Crofts had their...
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  • One of Our Lions Is Missing One of Our Lions Is Missing
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    One of Our Lions Is Missing

    It's an ordinary, dreary February morning when journalist Amanda Griggs is rudely awoken by her boss after yet another night of mindless hedonism. 'Yellow!' he barks down the phone. Yellow? Yellow what? It doesn't take long to find out, for this morning...
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  • The Suit Case (Octavius Bear Book 7) The Suit Case (Octavius Bear Book 7)
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    The Suit Case (Octavius Bear Book 7)

    Can it be true? Is Octavius Bear actually accused of murder? When Professor Hercules Ovibos, an extortionate fraud pursuing a law suit against Octavius, is found floating in the Detroit River, evidence brought forward by the Professor’s lawyers...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and The Shadows of St Petersburg Sherlock Holmes and The Shadows of St Petersburg
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Shadows of St Petersburg

    "A psychological account of a crime"--that's how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel Crime and Punishment, which tells of two horrific axe murders in St. Petersburg.  It becomes much more than a mere “account,”...
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  • The Attaché Case (Octavius Bear Book 6) The Attaché Case (Octavius Bear Book 6)
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    The Attaché Case (Octavius Bear Book 6)

    More exploits of super sleuth Octavius Bear and his cohorts. Just for fun, this series swaps anthropomorphic animals for humans in a world very similar to our own 21st century Earth minus Homo Sapiens. Are there other alternate universes? Could be! Never...
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  • Upon a Nation's Honour - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure Upon a Nation's Honour - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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    Upon a Nation's Honour - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

    1906. HMS Dreadnaught, Britain's latest Battleship lies in her moorings in a Portsmouth dockyard awaiting her Sea Trials. Her design and armament renders the current warships of other Nations obsolete. Secret items of novel yet vital radio detection...
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  • The Liar's Sister The Liar's Sister
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    The Liar's Sister

    A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE. A VILLAGE FULL OF SECRETS.Ten years ago, a boy named Samuel Murray went missing from the quiet village of Buckthorpe and was never seen again.Rosie Sharpe cried over her missing friend for weeks after.But her...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and The Roswell Incident Sherlock Holmes and The Roswell Incident
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Roswell Incident

    Five years after Jenny Winston vanishes the night of the infamous Roswell UFO crash, Holmes and Watson must solve the mystery of the young woman’s disappearance. Immediately they find themselves in a web of Cold War intrigue, stolen secrets, double...
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  • Follow You Follow You
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    Follow You

    ‘Oh. My. Fluffing. Lord. From the very beginning this book grips hold of you and once it does it will not let you go … so dark, so twisted ... It's so bloody brilliant’ 5* Jen Med’s Book ReviewsHer eyelids were...
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  • Valero Valero
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    Valero

    Valero shouted and pointed to the Police Station.'For goodness sake Sergeant a policeman is in that ambulance dead. Get to the CID room find out properly what the boy saw.'Valero turned to his boss.'I had a chat with him before he went off his shift. ...
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  • The Agency Volume Five The Agency Volume Five
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    The Agency Volume Five

    Heart ShotEmily is a cautious assassin. While researching a target as a favor for a friend it all goes wrong, and she bumps into Finlay Mann-an Agent. A deep conspiracy has them only able to trust each other and risk their most venerable targets-their...
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  • Delarosa Secrets Delarosa Secrets
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    Delarosa Secrets

    Sometimes the only way to do your job-and discover love-is to trust your instincts.D'Marcus 'Snap' Jefferson is a DEA agent who has worked hard to keep drugs from hitting the streets of Houston. So when Kenneth Santos walks in, claiming to have...
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  • Hasta que Caiga el Telòn Hasta que Caiga el Telòn
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    Hasta que Caiga el Telòn

    Octubre 1938. El corresponsal de prensa extranjero, Jack Telford, está huyendo por el norte de España, territorio que se encuentra ahora en manos del franquismo. Acaba de matar a una figura importante y cercana al Generalísimo...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants

    It is summer 1890 and the game is afoot. When an elephant escapes from the London Zoological Gardens, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in one of their strangest cases yet. Engaged by a jeweller in fear for his life, the trail leads Sherlock to two...
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  • Sherlock's Home Sherlock's Home
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    Sherlock's Home

    Mandarin Chinese Version - A collection of short stories and poems in support of The Undershaw Preservation Trust. Including contributions from Mark Gatiss, Stephen Fry, Douglas Wilmer and many more.
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  • The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore
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    The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore

    When popular mystery writer Sebastian McCabe agreed to take part in a literary debate in London, he had no clue that he would wind up as both investigator and suspect in the strangest case of his amateur sleuthing career.Arthur James Phillimore,...
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  • Sherlocks Thuis Sherlocks Thuis
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    Sherlocks Thuis

    In 1903 zag 'Het lege huis' het licht. In dit verhaal keert Sherlock Holmes terug naar Baker Street 221B en legt aan zijn trouwe vriend, Dokter John Watson, uit hoe hij zijn dood bij de Reichenbach waterval in scène heeft gezet. In 2012 kwam het misdrijf...
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  • Sherlock Holmes Und Das Leere Haus Sherlock Holmes Und Das Leere Haus
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    Sherlock Holmes Und Das Leere Haus

    Wir schreiben das Jahr 1903: Die Geschichte 'Das leere Haus' erscheint und erzählt, wie Sherlock Holmes in die Baker Street 221b zurückkehrt und seinem treuen Freund Dr. John Watson schildert, wie er zuvor am Reichenbachfall seinen Tod vorgetäuscht hatte...
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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.

From contemporary crime fiction to classic detective tales, our bookstore offers a diverse range of crime books Australia readers will love. Browse through our carefully curated collection and discover your next favorite crime thriller novel today!