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The Stoning

The Stoning
  • Author(s): Peter Papathanasiou
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime. A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb’s northern outskirts....

Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan (Celebrant Sleuth series)

Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan (Celebrant Sleuth series)
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): The Outback, Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current day

Sleuth Quinn is on ‘The Ghan’ booked to celebrate a ‘real”wedding at the sunrise breakfast stop out in the Australian desert at Marla. But things go wrong. The train manager has devised an Agatha Christie role-playing mystery to attract...

The Dry

The Dry
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set 500 miles from Melbourne Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

Down Outback Roads

Down Outback Roads
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance

Kree Garrett’s younger brother Seth is all the family she has left, so when he goes missing in the Australian outback, she doesn’t think twice about leaving her American home to find him. When Seth is rescued Kree vows...

Flight to Coorah Creek

Flight to Coorah Creek
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens when you can fly, but you just can’t hide?Only Jessica Pearson knows the truth when the press portray her as the woman who betrayed her lover to escape prosecution. But will her new job flying an outback...

Heist

Heist
  • Author(s): Robert Schofield
  • Location(s): The Outback, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He...

The Lost Man

The Lost Man
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. They are at the...

The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s-1960s

One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three...

What Love Sounds Like

What Love Sounds Like
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Outback speech pathologist, Mia Windsor, believes her morning from hell is over. Then suited-up, city-boy Kade Reid strides into her office and announces he and his wide-eyed niece are the clients that she will be living with for the...

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