UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INTOLERANT. CLEVER. The brilliant second instalment in the compelling new series to rival Rumpole and Rake from one of our leading legal minds, QC Stuart Littlemore.A brilliant new instalment in the compelling series that rivals Rumpole and Rake. the renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one of them in defence of clients charged with murder. Meet the multiple ...

UGLY. IRASCIBLE. CLEVER. INTOLERANT. Stuart Littlemore QC returns with the third instalment in the Harry Curry series.the irascible Harry Curry and beauteous Arabella Engineer are back in a new suite of legal misadventures and relationship jousts. In this final instalment of Stuart Littlemore's incisive crime collection, Harry and Arabella get down and domestic dealing with a baby on the way and the impending interruption to their lively legal careers. Harry comes to relish a spate ...

UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INTOLERANT. CLEVER. Published as a bind-up for the first time, HARRY CURRY: CRIMINAL DEFENDER brings together Stuart Littlemore's first two collections of courtroom drama, HARRY CURRY: COUNSEL OF CHOICE and HARRY CURRY: THE MURDER BOOK.UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INtOLERANt. CLEVER. HARRY CURRY: COUNSEL OF CHOICE (Book 1) From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new character, Harry Curry-scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class tr...

DCI David Brock and DI Kathy Kolla, of Scotland Yard, find themselves pulled into a case of murder, a mysterious death among the houseboats that line the canals around greater London, in Barry Maitland's The Raven's Eye.DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently ...

A “cleverly devious” mystery that sends two Scotland Yard detectives into an upscale spa that may be a crime scene (Los Angeles Times).Following Barry Maitland’s first mystery, The Marx Sisters, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock of Scotland Yard return in The Malcontenta, which won Australia’s Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, when it was first published.Det. Sergeant Kathy ...

In the 40th Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settled.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops - former members of the Gun Control Unit - outla...

Politics, murder and sex push Hardy to the limit.'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'When Cliff Hardy signs on as a bodyguard for charismatic populist Rory O'Hara, who is about to embark on a campaign of social and political renewal, it looks like a tricky job - O'Hara has enemies. A murder and a kidnapping cause the campaign to fall apart.Hired to investigate the murder, Hardy uncovers hidden agendas among O'Hara's staff as well as...

Professional, methodical and only slightly sentimental, Wyatt is a flinty poem of a criminal and one of the most memorable creations in modern Australian literature.Wyatt plans to hit a suburban law firm for the settlement money in its safe. But he’s working with cowboys, and the lawyer planning to rip off her boss is a little too mysterious for his comfort. Wyatt’s as good as they come, but everything needs to go like clockwork—and you can’t always plan around human frailty.

Careful, exacting and ruthless, Wyatt is a consummate criminal and a solitary giant in Australian crime writing.This time it’s a payroll and bank run in the north of South Australia, an outpost town suddenly transformed by a pipeline construction project that brings petty crime, prostitution—and opportunity. It’s a town with its own secrets and Wyatt isn’t quick to trust at the best of times. But he’s on the run and he can’t afford to be choosy.This is another masterpiece o...

'Two things you want to remember about the good old days, Ned. They weren't that good and they're not that old.'Detective Nhu 'Ned' Kelly is in way over her head. Not every member of the New South Wales police force has welcomed the young, half-Vietnamese woman into a job where the old school still makes the rules.When two bodies are discovered in the footings of an old Bankstown building, Ned catches the case. As she works to uncover the truth, she is drawn ...

To catch a serial killer, sometimes you need to think like one—in this Australian crime thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.The first victim—young, female, beautiful—is discovered on the edge of the park, her face utterly destroyed. Sydney homicide detective Frank Bennett suspects that this is a first kill. And it won’t be the last. To stop a serial killer in the making, Frank will have to place his faith in his partner Eden Archer—a cop w...

Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, Christopher Koch returns with Lost Voices, a remarkable new novel that confirms him as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Wa...