Catalog Search Results
1) Fifty, fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Certain that her convicted killer brother, Sam Blue, is innocent of the serial murders of three young women, Detective Harriet Blue is determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career. The outburst she unleashes at his hearing earns her a reassignment to the Outback in a town where the population of seventy-five is in the sights of a seasoned killer. A diary found on the roadside outlines a plan to massacre the entire town. Meanwhile,...
2) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Harriet Blue, an imprisoned ex-cop seeking justice for her brother's murder, is offered her freedom in exchange for helping Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods, the man who put her away, rescue his missing daughter and grandchild.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community...
6) Exiles
Author
Series
Aaron Falk novels volume 3
Appears on list
Description
Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. This weekend also marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie's disappearance. One year ago, at a busy town festival on a warm spring night, Kim safely tucked her sleeping baby into her stroller, then vanished into the crowd. No one has seen her since. When Kim's older daughter makes a plea for anyone...
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 8
Formats
Description
With help from their cousin Harry, eight-year-old twins Ella and Ethan discover who is illegally taking coral from the reefs near their aunt and uncle's beach house on the shore of Australia's Coral Sea.
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Appears on these lists
Description
Earnest Cunningham, Ern, is invited by the Australian Mystery Writers' Society to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, a famous train through the Australian desert. He is hoping for some inspiration for his second book, but he finds himself on a 1,800 mile journey filled with grudges: crime writers with hidden secrets, overeager fans bearing cinspiracy theories, and agents and editors undercutting each other in order to sign the next big...
Author
Description
A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the making. 1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is in finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators,...
11) Fast track
Author
Series
Description
Devastated by the health setbacks of the father who raised her alone, Cordelia learns a shocking truth about her mother and enlists the help of her best friend's hotel magnate older brother, Aiden, who is being targeted by a powerful congressman.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past, but the tight-knit community of Silver Bay offers the freedom and safety she craves. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel. This mild-mannered Englishman could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbors her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love--never deserve to love--again.
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 1
Appears on list
Description
Ernie Cunningham is part of a notorious crime family and three years ago, he turned his brother in to the police for murder. Now his brother is being released from prison and his family is having a reunion at a remote mountain resort. When a dead body is found on the slopes, Ern realizes it's up to him to find the murderer. He knows the rules killers follow, and he knows his family -- every member of which has killed someone.
14) Moonfire
Author
Formats
Description
Maggie Chamberlin, an American actress, travels all the way to Australia in 1887 on the promises of a scoundrel and encounters Reeve McKenna, an Irishman who has become one of the richest men in Australia.
15) Never never
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
While her brother is under arrest in Sydney for a series of brutal murders, Detective Harriet Blue is sent out of town to investigate the disappearance of three young people in the middle of the Western Australian desert.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Appears on these lists
Description
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
17) The lost man
Author
Description
When their middle brother Cameron, who went missing the week before Christmas, is found dead, Nathan and Bub are forced to confront devastating secrets.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Description
An orphan girl's epic journey to womanhood takes her across the world—and back to the man she loves—in this sweeping novel of early twentieth-century Australia.
Western Australia, 1898. In the vast and unforgiving desert, a miner discovers a baby girl in the sand, miraculously still alive. Sent to an orphanage, Leonora is still mute with grief and fear as she slowly bonds with another orphan, James. He fights to protect...
Western Australia, 1898. In the vast and unforgiving desert, a miner discovers a baby girl in the sand, miraculously still alive. Sent to an orphanage, Leonora is still mute with grief and fear as she slowly bonds with another orphan, James. He fights to protect...
Author
Description
From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. As a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad word to say about Diana…except Lucy. That was five years ago. Now, Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc inside her body....
20) A house divided
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Rowland Sinclair doesn't fit with his family. His conservative older brother, Wilfred, thinks he's reckless, a black sheep; his aging mother thinks he's her son who was killed in the war. Only his namesake Uncle Rowly, a kindred spirit, understands him-and now he's been brutally murdered in his own home. The police are literally clueless, and so Rowly takes it upon himself to investigate the crime. In order to root out the guilty party, he uses his...