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When Skip Cuddy, freshly released from ten months in jail as the unwitting wheelman in a botched convenience store robbery, finds a box in t...

Paralegal Taylor Lockwood really wants to play jazz piano, but works as a paralegal to appease her lawyer father and plays piano at night to...

Jonah Stem's a medical student - physically and mentally exhausted from long hours at the bedside, he stumbles out into the New York nig...

When Sarah bursts out of dense shrubbery, petrified, she is taken in by three Travellers, who are making their way through the territories s...

Buff young Garvey Quinn's an actor with a role on one of Australia's favourite medical dramas. He's happy with his career, and t...

After the death of his wild and promiscuous first wife, all the Earl of Ravenwood wants from his second wife is an heir and no trouble, so h...

The children of the sewers that run beneath Melbourne are feral. Known as the Cave Rats, they turn on, and feed on, anyone and anything they...

When freelance geologist Bob Boyd heads to Fort Farrell, a logging town in the heart of British Columbia, he's stunned to discover the m...

In early 2005 the Australian media was filled with stories about an Indian-trained surgeon who had been linked with an increasing number of ...

A grieving family seeking solace takes up residence in an aged manor house in picturesque county side. Almost immediately they are subjected...

In 2004 Frank Warren distributed 5,000 postcards, at subway stations, art galleries and in books. He asked people to write down and mail the...

Middle daughter Izzy Spellman's a second generation PI. After a lifetime of intrigue and surveillance, eluding tails and hiding her pers...

In a world where bonded pairs must avert natural disasters a conscientious woman is bonded to a notoriously flighty man. The pair are the on...

In 1984 the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology published a paper that would initiate an investigation into one of the greatest medic...

When Harper Connelly was fifteen she was struck by lightning. Resuscitated by her step-brother Tolliver, ever since she's been able to f...

When San Franciscan Jody, a "self-conscious, one-step dancer with the rhythmic sense of an inbred Aryan" wakes up half-buried unde...

A serial killer is targeting attractive, slender blonde women in Minnesota. Normally this wouldn't worry attractive, blonde Minnesotan B...

Food and crime novels often go hand in hand - fictional detectives are often associated with food, or their ascetic disinterest in food, and...

One day, after fifteen years of faithful but passionless wifely duty, Helen Robbins has enough. Instead of marinating the beef in a great re...

Dr David Hunter retreated to the country to escape from the tragic deaths of his wife and young daughter, joining the practice of establishe...

Charlotte starts her diary on her birthday, writing in the beautiful blue leather notebook her uncle Donald sent from France. Uncle Donald i...

The elegant, widowed Madame Gabrielle Didier is attractive, elegant and knowledgeable. She assists, rather than merely works for, one of New...

An exhibition of Vatican treasures is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar; amongst the stolen artefacts is an ancient decode...

Just before her phone rings in the middle of the night, social worker Bo Bradley wakes from a weird dream - about a cold, windowless room ...

Is the decrepit house at 46 Rosella St haunted? After Mr Mosel died a few weeks earlier mysterious lights have been seen in the house after ...

In the second installment of this YA series Penelope and Benny are on the hunt for a icon, a painting of Saint Dionysus that has been stolen...

Fourteen-year-old Penelope Thanatopoulos doesn't like schoolmate Benjamin Thorpe (the only thing worse than "Ben and Pen" is ...

Twenty-five year old Venus Gilroy is about to be married. For the third time. She met Tremaynne - gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited environment...

When her mother dies, all Rosemary knows and expects of life is turned upside down. In no time she finds herself half a world away from the ...

After overhearing his girlfriend describe him as an anonymous little grey man who would do until the real thing came along, accountant Jerem...