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The Sun In Her Eyes

The Sun In Her Eyes
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Now, almost thirty years later, she’s trying to track Amber down. Amber,...

Pictures of Lily

Pictures of Lily
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Will you marry me?’ I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has...

Slow Man

Slow Man
  • Author(s): J M Coetzee
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the Magill Road in Adelaide, Paul Rayment is cycling, had an accident and has his leg amputated. A succession of carers look after him at home and in particular he bonds with Marijana – they both grew up...

A Matter of Love and Death

A Matter of Love and Death
  • Author(s): Caron Albright
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931, Jazz Age, Great Depression

Adelaide, 1931. Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her mother and adopted uncle. But it’s thrown into turmoil when she overhears a suspicious conversation on the phone, planning a murder. If a life is...

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...

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...

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...

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