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The Rip

The Rip
  • Author(s): Holly Craig
  • Location(s): Rottnest Island
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise…When a child vanishes on the night of...

The Rosie Project

The Rosie Project
  • Author(s): Graeme Simsion
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never...

The Rush

The Rush
  • Author(s): Michelle Prak
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this riveting psychological thriller—perfect for fans of Jane Harper’s The Survivors and Erica Ferencik’s Into the Jungle—a ferocious storm in the Australian Outback sets the stage for betrayal and murder. With a massive downpour and flash floods predicted, Quinn Durand leaves work...

The Secret of Supernatural Creek (A Laura Marlin Mystery)

The Secret of Supernatural Creek (A Laura Marlin Mystery)
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin is back for her next exciting adventure in the fifth mystery from award-winning author Lauren St John. After helping to capture Mr A, the notorious leader of the Straight A gang, Laura Marlin is...

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 Shallows

The Shallows
  • Author(s): Holly Craig
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all—perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters...

The Shark

The Shark
  • Author(s): Emma Styles
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every monster has a weakness. At the height of Australian summer, a serial killer known as The Shark stalks a coastal suburb, hunting young female swimmers. Afraid and furious at the failure of the police to protect them, two...

The Shepherd’s Hut

The Shepherd’s Hut
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful...

The Silence

The Silence
  • Author(s): Susan Allott
  • Location(s): Sydney, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967,...

The Silent Listener

The Silent Listener
  • Author(s): Lyn Yeowart
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AN UNFORGETTABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SET IN THE DARK, GOTHIC HEART OF RURAL AUSTRALIA The moment he dies, the room explodes with life. Joy Henderson returns to the family farm to nurse her dying father. To the outside world, George...

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