Collection: Fiction

The student: Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College. The scapegoat: Meanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister pur...

In Holmes is Missing, PI Brendan Holmes has committed the perfect crime—he’s made himself disappear. Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, ‘the brain,’ Margaret Marple, ‘the eyes,’ and Auguste Poe, the ...

The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn'...

Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke, featuring the kind of characters you might expect in the country - as well as some you might not. A football coach ponders obsession . . . a mouse plague dictates school yard politics . . . a failed playwright asks 'who gets the farm?' . . ...

Two years ago, and with assassins after his head, Bourne knew he had to let Abbey Laurent walk away from his dangerous world. Now Abbey is back and she's married to a top government official. But she's convinced someone is trying to kill her husband, and she wants Bourne's help. Bourne follows th...

Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at last-by any means necessary. In the capital, Colombo, tenacious journalist Ameena Fernando is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street near her home, with no witnesses. With pressure growing to find Ameena's kil...

Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . . . Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting discovery - and then vanish into thin air. But Gabe Ahern is determined he will be the last. No one knows the land ...

He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress... Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don't sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people t...

Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn't have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn't call her the Little Sheriff for nothing. But ...

A frozen wilderness. A killer in the skies. When aspiring travel writer Chloe Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she's bagged the opportunity of a lifetime. But she hasn't had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found de...