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  • Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
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    Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo

    Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.The book explores four major fourth-wave feminist focal points, #metoo, rape culture/reclaim the night, toxic...
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  • The Vinyl Detective - Noise Floor
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    The Vinyl Detective - Noise Floor

    The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied realm...
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    Scarlett Couture
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    Scarlett Couture

    The world's most glamorous and lethal fashion model is back to kick ass in her Jimmy Choo slingbacks.Written and drawn by acclaimed artist Des Taylor, praised for his unique animation style goodgirl artwork. For fans of strong dynamic female lead action...
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  • The Crossroads of Crime Writing
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    The Crossroads of Crime Writing

    Over a century ago, in his examination The Sensational in Modern English Fiction (1919), Walter Clarke Phillips declared, 'Whatever sources of appeal may come or go, there is one which from the very structure of modern democratic society seldom...
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    The Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
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    The Classified Dossier - Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray

    Mysterious socialite Dorian Gray is at the centre of Sherlock Holmes' latest investigation in this astonishing, uncanny mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror.1903. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have tickets to the newly arrived Egyptian...
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    Do What Godmother Says
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    Do What Godmother Says

    A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller.Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But she has a hard time ignoring the signs when she...
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  • The Widows
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    The Widows

    In the sequel to Femicide, two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman.With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the...
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  • The Hollow Mountain
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    The Hollow Mountain

    The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerous conditions few men could endure.Alice Larkin, the headstrong daughter...
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    The Cursing Stones Murder
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    The Cursing Stones Murder

    A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the "pure British detective story" (The New York Times).The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging-but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was...
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    When Cicadas Cry
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    When Cicadas Cry

    In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town.A high-profile murder case A...
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  • Miss Melville Regrets
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    Miss Melville Regrets

    Good breeding simply doesn't pay the rent anymore.And while Miss Melville has bucketloads of breeding, she finds herself somewhat...lacking, shall we say, when it comes to finances. Distinctly lacking. Her rich friends are no help; they think...
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  • The Wooden Overcoat
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    The Wooden Overcoat

    A comedy of manners and the odd dead body.London is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regulations: Acquitted murderers only...
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  • The King of Video Poker
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    The King of Video Poker

    Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves.In Paolo Iacovelli's debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes...
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    Too Many Bullets
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    Too Many Bullets

    Acclaimed 'True Crime' detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel from bestselling Road to...
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  • The Lover of No Fixed Abode
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    The Lover of No Fixed Abode

    The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure of a ship.It begins with a troubling encounter on a...
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  • Saving Grace
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    Saving Grace

    An ambitious reporter seeks a window into an obsessed killer's mind-and is forced to take a hard look in the mirror, in this dark psychological thriller.It starts when a Cornwall fisherman finds a body in the ocean. The blood of the victim has washed...
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  • Letters to the Purple Satin Killer
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    Letters to the Purple Satin Killer

    Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it.The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way...
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  • The Replacement
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    The Replacement

    Your husband had an affair. What do you do when the woman who destroyed your marriage asks for your help? A new thriller from the "hugely engrossing" author (Catherine Ryan Howard, Edgar Award finalist).Lauren Wade hates Jem Carter, and Jem hates her...
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  • Snap Judgment
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    Snap Judgment

    Has a judge turned executioner? A twisting mystery thriller by the author of Deadly Grief.Nobody was happy when a mistake by the DA's office allowed Gilbert Russell to walk free-aside from the alleged child killer himself. Even the judge, in his...
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  • Obsessed
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    Obsessed

    How do you hunt a monster when you can't remember his face? The author of Her Dark Past returns with a new novel of trauma, terror and missing memories...Lisa walks in the woods on a regular basis. But this time when she emerges, she is badly injured...
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  • The Chinese Parrot
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    The Chinese Parrot

    Return to the Charlie Chan Mystery Series with Earl Bigger's fantastic sophomore outing, The Chinese Parrot.After the events of The House Without a Key, Charlie Chan is ready for a vacation. But before he can relax in the Golden State he must follow...
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  • The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories
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    The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories

    Rediscover George S. Schuyler with a brand new collection of pulp fiction stories never before published in book form. George S. Schuyler was an African American journalist, social commentator and author with a very complicated legacy. Despite making...
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  • Murder on Sex Island
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    Murder on Sex Island

    When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers ask the mysterious detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don't know is that Luella van Horn is actually a woman...
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    Dig Two Graves
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    Dig Two Graves

    Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Mike Hammer's partner (both...
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  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I

    Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...
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    Between This World and the Next
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    Between This World and the Next

    Winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Praveen Herat's gripping international thriller is a breathtaking exploration of power, identity, unconditional love, and the question of how far we'll go to uncover the truth.British war...
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    In the Blind
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    In the Blind

    "Marten's powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together...Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note." -Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review)Eugene Marten's In the Blind takes readers...
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    Sex and Violence, A Love Story
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    Sex and Violence, A Love Story

    Professors are being murdered in a way that suggests a sexual motive in a novel that occupies in imaginative space an area homologous to the area occupied by Columbia University in actual space.Turtle Point Press' first murder mystery is a novel in the...
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  • Lines of Deception
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    Lines of Deception

    A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother, in this Cold War thriller by the author of Lost Kin.West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a...
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    Point of Order
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    Point of Order

    The trial for a fifty-year-old murder comes with plenty of danger for one judge, in this explosive legal thriller by the author of The Hanging Judge.Dominic O'Connell is one of Boston's most prominent businessmen. His rise from poverty to power as a...
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  • Double Proof
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    Double Proof

    1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made - the legendary Dalziel Double Proof - goes missing.2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation...
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    Noir Burlesque
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    Noir Burlesque

    'Everybody has everything to lose...'An atmospheric, violent crime caper set in 1950s New York, with everything from femme fatales to double-crosses.A heist gone wrong forces Slick to do a job for his employer, Rex, to repay the debt he...
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    The Oracle
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    The Oracle

    Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That...
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  • NORMA
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    NORMA

    Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's...
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    Honor the Dead

    Dr. Cate Spencer is back in this highly-anticipated third installment of the Dominion Archives Mysteries. It's been a few months since the events ofSpeak for the Deadand Dr. Cate Spencer is seeking a temporary reprieve in the bucolic Eastern Townships of...
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  • Black Phoenix Vol. 3
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    Black Phoenix Vol. 3

    A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso's one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres.Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine...
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  • The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
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    The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

    A novel based on the shocking true eighteenth-century story of a Scottish noblewoman whose own husband faked her death and exiled her to a remote island, where she could never be found.Edinburgh, January 1732. It's the funeral of Rachel, wife of...
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  • Barking Mad
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    Barking Mad

    The second Poppy Mystery, a brand new British cozy crime series perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and SJ Bennett's The Queen Investigates series.Emily has settled in the picturesque village of Ashton Mead,...
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  • The Rachel Condition
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    The Rachel Condition

    The Rachel Conditionis at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel,...
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  • Lowdown Road
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    Lowdown Road

    One of 'The Most Wanted Crime Novels of 2023' - Crimefictionlover.comJoin a heart-racing road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid the cops and criminals hot on their tails.It's the...
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  • Columba's Bones
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    Columba's Bones

    The Isle of Iona, 825.In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to give away the location of the sacred relics of St Columba, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotland. Following a night...
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  • Sherlock Holmes - The Monster of the Mere
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    Sherlock Holmes - The Monster of the Mere

    When Watson's holiday in the Lake District takes a sinister twist, he and Holmes must uncover the truth hidden by superstitious locals, folklore and rumours of prehistorical monsters far away from the familiar streets of London... A serene...
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    The Plinko Bounce
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    The Plinko Bounce

    New York Times Best Thriller of 2023New York Times Editors' Pick 2023For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts,...
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  • Enchanted Hill
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    Enchanted Hill

    Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast.The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate...
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  • The Rotting Whale
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    The Rotting Whale

    When the natural world and the build world collide, the earth needs a good building inspector...In this first case in the new Hugo Sandoval Eco-Mystery series, an old-school San Francisco building inspector must reluctantly venture outside his beloved...
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  • Ill Behavior
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    Ill Behavior

    Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, SOBR sets out to clear his graffiti name while haunted by a foretelling of his impending...
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  • The Penny Mansions
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    The Penny Mansions

    With the Spanish flu pandemic on the rise, a former gold rush town- once the largest city in the Pacific Northwest- is threatened with extinction via eminent domain should their population fall below 125 citizens. To save their homes, former madam Maude...
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  • Blood In The Holler
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    Blood In The Holler

    The world of pro wrestling is about to change. Eric "Jiggolo" Johnson can sense it, but he's already on his way out. On the way to what he expects will be one of his last big shows, he and the wrestlers he's traveling with come into conflict with a...
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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!