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Exiles

Exiles
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night. Her baby lies alone in the pram, her mother’s possessions surrounding her, waiting for a return which never comes. A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts...

Fracture

Fracture
  • Author(s): Heleyne Hammersley
  • Location(s): Australia, Great Ocean Road, South Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After leaving university and a violent relationship behind, Rosie flies to Australia to spend some time with her uncle, Charlie, and his wife, Rita. Trying to regain some of her lost confidence she hikes along the coast for a...

Homecoming

Homecoming
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Adelaide, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958 and contemporary

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and...

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Like Mother, Like Daughter
  • Author(s): Elle Croft
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Utterly absorbing and thought-provoking’ Caz Frear ‘What a premise, and packed with suspense’ Victoria Selman ‘A dark, delicious triumph’ Niki Mackay If what they said was true, then the grotesque and the monstrous ran in her blood. It was...

On the Beach

On the Beach
  • Author(s): Nevil Shute
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Future

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them...

Sanctuary

Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Garry Disher
  • Location(s): Adelaide Hills
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NO ONE CAN RUN FOREVER… Grace is a thief – a good one. But she’s always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It’s not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate...

Spiral

Spiral
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Laurence Turner, a pharmacist from Sydney, is wracked with guilt after his fiancé dies on a sailing trip. The tragedy is followed by yet another fatal incident when he dispenses the wrong medication to a customer. Laurence moves to...

The Self-Made Saint

The Self-Made Saint
  • Author(s): Alexandra Addams
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Judith Drainger has always played life by her own rules. But these days life seems to be playing her right back. Divorced, orphaned and forcibly retired, 59-year-old Judith is determined to seize the opportunity to leave her broken home...

The Sun Walks Down

The Sun Walks Down
  • Author(s): Fiona McFarlane
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1883

In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As...

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