Geoff Rankin, a returned serviceman, just wants to get away for a quiet weekend up in the tablelands. When he encounters what appear to be visitors from another planet, he deals with them the only way he knows…violently.

The hit TV show, Castaway, has found the location for its latest season. Dubbed Lincoln Island, it lies in a remote part of the Pacific far from plane routes and shipping lanes. The contestants are a mixture of the old and the young; the fit and the flabby; the noble and the obnoxious; and, of course, the beautiful and the average. Led by their host, the charismatic Trent Slade, they arrive on the island to find the pre-production crew missing and the set trashed. They are taken captive by...

March 1945. Three escaped POWs in a fishing boat on the Baltic Sea are attacked by a lone Luftwaffe fighter plane. The sole survivor, Tom Mueller, an Australian, is rescued by a British submarine and finally makes a "home run" after four long years in captivity.Tom's London debrief retells his amazing odyssey. Captured during ill-fated defence of Greece, a series of desperate escapes and heartbreaking recapture, follow prior to his last and most audacious escape.The US agency...

This is a collection of short stories that focus not on war but its aftermath. Each story is set on Australian soil but with powerful and enduring links to distant lands.What sort of Australia did the first limbless diggers return to? The First ANZAC Day deals with the first broken soldier to return to his hometown in 1916.The brotherhood-like culture of returned diggers underpins the legend of ANZAC. Us and Them is about what happens when this legend is just a thin veneer pa...

Ali Ahmad had brought his family to Australia to escape the horrors of the Iraq civil war. He’d worked hard to be a good citizen and establish a small business in order to pay his own way in his new homeland. What he didn’t expect was to have his family kidnapped. What the police didn’t expect was a bizarre ransom demand to be played out on national television. And what the television networks didn’t expect were to be pawns in a twisted game of revenge.

The circus has come to town. Teenage friends Katie, Josh and Luke reckon they're too old for the circus but free tickets are free tickets and it is the school holidays. When Josh visits the glamourous Fortune Teller events take grim turn for the worse and it's up to Katie and Luke to rescue him. But first they'll have to evade a small army of murderous circus performers led by the insidious ringleader, Mysterio.

Old Arthur is a cleaner at Sydney’s Central Railway Station. One of those invisible people who carries out the thankless jobs that make our lives that little bit easier. You know, keeping public spaces clean, replacing our toilet paper rolls and removing smudges from the restroom ceramic and mirrors. He keeps to himself and no one can remember the last time he had a sickie. In fact no one knows much about Arthur at all and that’s just the way he likes it. But that’s about to change when hi...

It was Probationary Constable Alex McMahon's first day on the job. "Speeding tickets and break and enters," said her instructors at the academy, hosing down the rookies' enthusiasm. "Nothing like TV or the movies," they said. Yet here she was, bomb threats, terrorists and her gun drawn, safety catch set to fire.

THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.Ed Rogan, tough as nails and twice as sharp, is a private investigator of malfeasance in the corporate world. The enigmatic case he's working on in A MURDER TOO PERSONAL takes on a very personal aspect when he searches for the murderer of his ex-wife. Someone has put a bullet in the back of her head and Rogan is driven by the twin demons of guilt and revenge to find her killer. His quest leads him through the netherworld of Wall Street and corporate board roo...

A mother won't talk even after one of her children is killed. Walker has to try and break her down, while dealing with the murder of an old friend."Another winner. Both somber and entertaining." DLF Review

It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband -- what really happened? The husband has a fiendis...

Psychic Jeff Resnick has no expectations when investigating the disappearance of a four-year-old boy. That is until he confronts the mind responsible--a shattering experience for all involved.Cold Case was the inspiration for the Jeff Resnick novel Bound By Suggestion.The Jeff Resnick Mysteries:Murder On The MindDead In RedRoom At The InnCheated By DeathBound By SuggestionDark WatersShattered Spirits...