While his co-conspirators enjoy a government amnesty, Sam Willard is in prison, paying the price for exposing war crimes. Surrounded by enemies eager for revenge, his greatest challenge is survival. But then a mysterious federal agent offers him a dangerous proposition: his freedom in exchange for infiltrating an extremist group to rescue the son of a radical politician. With an old adversary lurking in the shadows, Sam must navigate a web of deception and danger. Meanwhile, Detective Serg...

Following on from Prize Catch comes another tense and thrilling novel from the award-winning crime writer.While his co-conspirators enjoy a government amnesty, Sam Willard is in prison, paying the price for exposing war crimes. Surrounded by enemies eager for revenge, his greatest challenge is survival.But then a mysterious federal agent offers him a dangerous proposition: his freedom in exchange for infiltrating an extremist group to rescue the son of a radical politician....

When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful. The killer is elusive and brutal, and the investigation takes Cato to Shanghai. In a world of spoiled rich kids and cyber dragons, Cato is about to discover a whole lot more about the Chinese acquisition of Australian land—about those who play the game and those who die trying.

Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of the South Island. As tensions simmer in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working on a cold-case murder and investigating a scandal-plagued religious sect. When local and internat...

A gripping crime novel set in Tasmania, where secrets lurk beneath the surface. When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run, Roz suspects foul play. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard seeks a fresh start at a salmon farm, but is drawn into a web of old war crimes and new conspiracies.As Roz and Sam form an unlikely alliance, they uncover a trail of corruption and murder that reaches the highest levels of power. Forced to flee into the Tasmanian wilderne...

The world is in economic meltdown, but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime—or even a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. When Kwong's investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturb...

When a series of murders occur, all of the victims homeless, Detective Cato Kwong's happily ever after takes a sour turn. Leaving his new wife and their baby girl at home, Cato cracks on with the case, but he is not the only one engaging with the killer. A journalist thinks it's okay to play cat and mouse with them online. Quite soon, it becomes apparent that these murders are personal – and not only that, but each death is bringing the killer closer to Cato, one body at a time.

DS Nick Chester returns with a new case that will test his limits. The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand' s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer. When a body is discovered suspended in a glacier, detectives Nick Chester and Latifa Rapata are sent to investigate. More victims surface, as does a web of corruption stretching from the international aid industry to the blood-steeped...

Grow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, nature friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot, from small terrace or allotment to smallholding.Learn how to successfully layer root crops, fruit, perennial vegetables and edible shrubs below tree crops, cultivating an edible garden that doesn’t look like a traditional vegetable plot. A forest garden is wildlife friendly, provides nutrient-den...

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case—the unsolved mystery of a missing 15-year-old girl. But it's midsummer in the city of millionaires and it's not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave and a body, with its throat cut, turns up in the local nightclub. As a series of blunders by Cato's colleague brings the squad under intense scrutiny, Cato's own sympathy for a suspect threatens to derail his case and his care...

When Microsoft released early versions of Windows, they included simple games like Solitaire and Minesweeper. For decades, millions of office workers lost countless hours to these digital distractions. But these games were not included merely for entertainment; they were covert training programs designed to rewire human muscle memory. This technological history uncovers the brilliant user-interface strategy behind early operating systems. In the early 1990s, the computer mouse was an alien...

When Microsoft released early versions of Windows, they included simple games like Solitaire and Minesweeper. For decades, millions of office workers lost countless hours to these digital distractions. But these games were not included merely for entertainment; they were covert training programs designed to rewire human muscle memory. This technological history uncovers the brilliant user-interface strategy behind early operating systems. In the early 1990s, the computer mouse was an alien...