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Fresh from maternity leave, Dunedin detective Sam Shephard investigates the unsolved murder of a highly esteemed church minister ... with potentially deadly consequences. New Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a page-turning, riveting new Sam Shephard mystery... `A series that ...

Winner of the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize • A Globe and Mail Best Spring Book • One of Lambda Literary Review's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 • A Southern Review Book to Celebrate in June 2023 • A 49th Shelf Best Book of 2...

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer ... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People... 'Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read fo...

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley becomes involved in the horrifying, chilling search for a violent serial killer targeting dancers from a club ... the first book in an award-winning, wildly original, addictive series... 'Such a revelation' Laura Lippman 'Gruesome and assured, Buchholz's wo...

Henry VIII's court jester Will Somers turns reluctant inquisitor once again when a grotesque murder within the palace walls is linked to the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion in this gripping Tudor mystery. 1536, London. The gruesome murder of a servant in the king's palace, his throat savagely cut,...

Meet Annie Hart: newly inherited yarn and tea shop owner and reluctant amateur sleuth. Annie Hart, daughter of Bryan Hart - talent agent to the stars - spends her life getting roped into whatever new task her father needs her to do for his VIP clients. So when she inherits a yarn shop in the sma...

Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin investigates a murder at a pizza baking contest in her Southern home town in this second instalment of the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger Mystery. "I was hooked from start to finish!" Laura Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries on...

Painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe investigates a tragic death when she returns to Taos in the second instalment of this twisty historical mystery set in the 1930s by multi award-winning author Kathryn Lasky. "Step aside Miss Marple, Eugenia Potter, and Kinsey Millhone - Georgia O'Keeff...

A young woman starts experiencing terrifying premonitions of people dying, as it becomes clear that a family curse known only as The Murmurs has begun, and a long-forgotten crime is about to be unearthed... `His biggest smash hit yet, an assured paranormal thriller in which the paranormal isn't e...

A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster ... The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing. `P...

'In Caribe, Sakarah has lovingly created a book to cook from, to learn from,and to savour.' -DR JESSICA B. HARRIS, historian and author of High on the Hog (now a Netflix docuseries) 'A rich and traversal tapestry of food, culture, a people, and their past. Caribe is remarkable. Keshia Sakarah is...

Romance, treasure and danger collide in the charming coastal town of Twilight Cove. Don't miss the newest instalment in USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox's enchanting Magical Menagerie mystery series! "For a small seaside town, Twilight Cove sure has plenty of excitement . . ." Georgie Joh...

The first in the enchanting new Magical Menagerie mystery series where things are not always what they seem. Georgie Johansen returns to the charming, coastal town of Twilight Cove and quickly finds herself in a whirlwind of romance, magic and murder! It's been years since screenwriter Georgie ...

'Engaging, thoughtful and bang up-to-date.' The Times 'A stone cold fox of a second novel.' PANDORA SYKES 'Fizzy dialogue and killer comic timing . . . Cole takes the temperature of modern America.' Daily Mail You ever wake up and wonder how you got to a place? Emmett and Joel are half-brothers, ...

Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction • One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A Mir...

Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series. ***WINNER of the CWA John Creasey...

Ben Hood takes a well-deserved holiday in Far North Queensland, Australia.  He doesn't care that the Monsoon Season has arrived.  No stress.  No pressure.  No danger.  No-one trying to kill him.  Just perfect. A little paper plane lands on his high-rise resort balcony.  Funny how a little thing ...

Ben Hood didn't want to go on a holiday with Rodney and Rose, but they talked him into it. It started out nice...but then he got arrested, charged with murder, put in prison and shot. Not the best holiday he has ever had but Karma often favours Ben. Eventually. Perhaps not exactly the Karma he ex...

Put this mix together..... An ancient schooner laden with stolen gold and opium, wrecked against a treacherous part of the Australian coast. A wreck diver vanishes while searching for the undersea treasure. Corrupt government officials and police crawling over each other to get their hands on the...

Ben Hood is an ex Police Detective and currently a VIP protection agent. He's not prone to taking crap from anyone. If a job has to be done, he'll do it and he'll do it his way even if rules have to be broken. Very different women are having dreams about the most expensive Blue Diamond in the wor...