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The Way It Is Now
By: Garry Disher
Length: 11 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-08-22
Language: English
Summary
From one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers, the multiple award-winning Garry Disher.
Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.
Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads.
Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.
The Way It Is Now is the enthralling new novel from Garry Disher, one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers.
©2021 Garry Disher (P)2021 W F Howes
Police Procedurals
Crime Thrillers
Critic reviews
"Disher is one of this country's finest writers." (Tony Birch)
"Disher is the gold standard for rural noir." (Chris Hammer)
"A giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters." (Ned Kelly Awards)
By: Michael Connelly
Series: Harry Bosch, Book 24
Length: 10 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-11-22
Language: English
Publisher: Orion
Summary
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's "white whale"—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving 'the Late Show' to rebuild the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him but that he hasn't been able to crack—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come work with her as a volunteer investigator in the new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his 'white whale' with the resources of the LAPD behind him.
The two must put aside old resentments to work together again and close in on a dangerous killer. Propulsive and unstoppable, this new novel demonstrates once again why 'Connelly is the real deal' (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).
Roy Grace, Book 18
By: Peter James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Series: Roy Grace, Book 18
Length: 14 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 29-09-22
Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan
Summary
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of Peter James’s award-winning detective series, which is now a major ITV programme starring John Simm as Roy Grace.
By: Chris Hammer
Narrated by: Lockie Chapman
Length: 10 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-10-22
Language: English
Publisher: Wildfire
Summary
Old bones sink—but secrets always rise to the surface.
Newly minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder—a 'file and forget'.
But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town community. As more bodies are discovered, and she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her, Nell realises that finding the truth could prove more difficult—and dangerous—than she'd ever expected.
The nearer Nell comes to uncovering the secrets of the past, the more treacherous her path becomes. Can she survive to root out the truth, and what price will she have to pay for it?
Gripping and atmospheric, Dead Man's Creek is a stunning multi-layered thriller from Chris Hammer, the award-winning author of Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year Scrublands (2019) and Times Crime Book of the Month Opal Country (January 2022).
By: Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoran Strike, Book 6
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 30-08-22
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Summary
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways...
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
Series: Jack Reacher, Book 27
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 25-10-22
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Summary
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the number one best-selling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away.
Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that this was no random act of violence. It is part of something much bigger...a sinister, secret conspiracy, with powerful people on the take, enmeshed in an elaborate plot that leaves no room for error. If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and permanently removed.
But when the threat is Reacher, there is no plan B....
©2022 Lee Child and Andrew Child (P)2022 Penguin Audio
By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
Length: 11 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 13-10-22
Language: English
Publisher: Orion
Summary
The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One best seller Ian Rankin.
One of the must-read novels of the year.
Pre-order now.
©2022 Ian Rankin (P)2022 Orion Publishing Group
By: John Grisham
Length: 10 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 18-10-22
Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Summary
The next astonishing thriller from the master of the legal thriller.
350+ million copies, 45 languages, nine blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM
©2022 Belfry Holdings, Inc (P)2022 Penguin Audio
By: Jane Harper
Series: Aaron Falk, Book 3
Length: 10 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-02-23
Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan
Summary
Critically acclaimed international best-selling author Jane Harper returns.
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds.
A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.
Joining the celebrations is federal investigator Aaron Falk. But as he soaks up life in the lush valley, he begins to suspect this tight-knit group may be more fractured than it seems.
Between Falk’s closest friend, a missing mother and a woman he’s drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge.
An outstanding novel, a brilliant mystery and a heart-pounding story from the author of The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man and The Survivors.
Pre-order your copy now.
©2023 Jane Harper (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 27-09-22
Language: English
Publisher: Quercus
Summary
The number one international best-selling author.
24 million books sold.
Winner of the Glass Key Award.
In the penultimate thriller in the New York Times and number one internationally best-selling Department Q series, Copenhagen's cold cases division must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped under the radar for decades.
On her 60th birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide, but a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988.
At Marcus' behest, Carl and the Department Q gang—Rose, Assad, and Gordon—reluctantly begin to investigate. However, they quickly discover that Marcus is on to something: Every two years for the past three decades, there have been unusual, impeccably timed deaths with connections between them that cannot be ignored. As they dig deeper, it transpires that these 'accidents' are in fact murders by a very cunning and violent serial killer.
Faced with their toughest case yet, made only more difficult with COVID-19 restrictions and the challenges of their own personal lives, the Department Q team must race to find the culprit before the next murder is committed, as it is becoming increasingly clear that the killer is far from finished.
©2022 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited
By: Jørn Lier Horst
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 24-11-22
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Summary
Set your pulse raising with the new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.
A severed head on a stake, a body in the lake....
Wisting - now a major BBC 4 TV show.
William Wisting is in a race against time....
When a severed head is found on a stake in the quiet town of Larvik, Police Inspector William Wisting is called in to investigate. The only clue? The killer is trying to send a message.
All roads lead back to the Night Man....
As the media closes in on the biggest story of the year, Wisting's journalist daughter Line receives a tip. Soon, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than anyone thought. A criminal network has lodged itself deep into the roots of the city, and it's up to Wisting to take down the elusive and dangerous Night Man.
This is just the beginning....
But hunting down the Night Man will take everything Wisting has, and it's all too easy for the hunter to become the prey....
©2022 Jørn Lier Horst (P)2022 Penguin Audio
**** Francis Novels, Book 10
By: Felix Francis
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Series: **** Francis Novels, Book 10
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-09-22
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Summary
Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey but he now gets his adrenalin rush from hurling himself, head first, down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile long Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to 80 miles per hour.
Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horse racing takes place on the frozen lake, Miles gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement.
Seven years before, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins to search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop him—and they’ll go to any lengths to do it …
©2021 Felix Francis (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Heat 2
By: Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner
Narrated by: Peter Giles
Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 18-08-22
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Summary
Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel—an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat—an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film.
Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film of the same name, Heat 2 covers the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna (Oscar winner Al Pacino) and elite criminals Neil McCauley (Oscar winner Robert De Niro), Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) and Nate (Oscar winner Jon Voight), and features the same extraordinary ambition, scope, rich characterisations and attention to detail as the epic film.
This new story leads up to the events of the film and then moves beyond it, featuring new characters on both sides of the law, new high-line heists and breathtakingly cinematic action sequences. Ranging from the streets of L.A. to the inner sancta of rival Taiwanese crime syndicates in Paraguay to a massive drug cartel money-laundering operation just over the border in Mexico, Heat 2 illuminates the dangerous workings of international crime organisations and the agents who pursue them as it provides a full-blooded portrait of the men and women who inhabit both worlds.
Operatic in scope, Heat 2 is engrossing, moving and tragic—a masterpiece of crime fiction from one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema.
The Girls Who Disappeared
By: Claire Douglas
Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Clare Corbett
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 15-09-22
Language: English
Summary
Three girls missing...
Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car—her friends have vanished.
They are never seen again...
Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance. But Olivia won't speak.
What happened?
Is Olivia hiding something?
Why are the people of Stafferbury so frightened?
How many secrets can one small town hide?
©2022 Claire Douglas (P)2022 Penguin Audio
I Will Find You
By: Harlan Coben
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 16-03-23
Language: English
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
David and Cheryl Baskin are living the dream—married, a beautiful new house in the suburbs, a three-year-old son named Matthew—when tragedy strikes in the worst way possible.
David awakes to find himself covered in blood... but not his own, his son's. While David is sure he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely.
Then, five years following his imprisonment, his wife's sister brings David a photograph of Matthew looking very much alive, accompanied by an unknown figure.
Can David escape prison, find Matthew and bring him home?
The consequences are dire, but prospect of being reunited with his son is way too tempting to resist.
Soon David is on the run. But it soon transpires that he knows way too much, and that there are people out there who will do anything to silence him. For ever...
©2023 Harlan Coben (P)2023 Penguin Audio
The Heat
Wyatt, Book 8
By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-09-22
Language: English
Summary
Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn’t have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That’s the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time.
So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten.
He knows how it’s done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful.
But who is his client? Who else wants that painting?
Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.
Livid
By: Patricia Cornwell
Series: Kay Scarpetta, Book 26
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 25-10-22
Language: English
Summary
Coming soon: the unstoppable new thriller from the global number one best-selling author.
In this thrilling new instalment of Patricia Cornwell's number one best-selling series, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial.
Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case - an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a gruelling cross-examination by the prosecutor, Scarpetta leaves the court only to discover that the sister of the judge on her case has been found dead.
Scarpetta ultimately finds herself facing a powerful, invisible enemy - who's planning the unthinkable....
Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge
By: Kelley Armstrong, Ace Atkins, C.J. Box, Allison Brennan, S.A. Cosby, Robert Dugoni, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, Kathy Reichs, Hank Phillippi Ryan
Narrated by: full cast
Length: Not Yet Known
Release date: 06-10-22
Language: English
Summary
The world’s greatest thriller writers prove they’re up to a unique challenge in this exciting anthology of original stories.
It all started with a simple but enticing challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story.
Not surprisingly, when some of the most creative writers around rose up to meet that challenge, their imaginations had no limit. An egg worth more than its weight in gold. A mysterious operative known only as Owl. An eagle-watcher who sees more than she should. Even a story that somehow places the Maltese Falcon in a nursing home.
With contributions from a wide range of best-selling authors, Birds of Prey is a must-listen for all thriller fans.
Red Mist
By: Ant Middleton
Narrated by: Ant Middleton, Steven Mackintosh
Series: Mallory, Book 2
Length: Not Yet Known
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 24-11-22
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Summary
Preorder now: Mallory and Ant are back in 2022.
You've heard his true story—now go deeper into Ant Middleton's world with his ultra-authentic thriller series.
Hiding out in a small village in France, ex-Special-Forces-veteran-turned-vigilante Mallory is trying to keep out of trouble, aware that there is a darkness within him that seeks out trouble—that enjoys it.
But one night, in a bar, he meets an old man afraid for his granddaughter, worried about the young man with whom she's become involved.
Unable to resist the pull of action, and of helping a family in need, Mallory is quickly draw into a turf war that it will take all his special skills to survive.
The Sunday Times best-selling book one in the Mallory series Cold Justice is available now.
©2022 Ant Middleton (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK
The Zero Night
A Jonathan Stride Novel, Book 11
By: Brian Freeman
Series: Jonathan Stride, Book 11
Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-11-22
Language: English
Summary
A woman has been kidnapped.
Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back...dead or alive.
After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it’s time for him to come back.
Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they’ve disappeared with the cash, and she’s still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate to find her - but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime.
Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage.
His wife, Serena, is struggling after the death of her mother, the abusive woman she hadn’t seen in 25 years. When she loses control at a crime scene and draws her gun on a fellow cop, Serena finds herself kicked off the Webster case. Alone at her desk, she begins hunting through old police files and starts to ask questions about a mother’s death that was written off as suicide. That death haunts Serena like an echo of her own childhood - but her obsession with it takes a terrible toll.
As Serena shuts him out of her despair and his own investigation grows increasingly tangled, Stride wonders whether going back to his detective work was the right decision. But all he can do is keep moving forward. Because Stride fears the Webster kidnapping may be only one part of a horrific murder conspiracy.
And it’s not over yet.