Catalog Search Results
1) Never never
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback...
2) Liar, liar
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Detective Harriet Blue is a very good cop . . . gone very bad. In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man --Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet, and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly speeds toward the dark side, and finally crosses it, Harriet won't...
Author
Description
"In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel--perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers--a Swedish glassmaker and a fiercely independent Australian journalist are thrown together amidst the turmoil of the 1960s and the dawning of a new modern era. 1965: As the United States becomes further embroiled in the Vietnam War, the ripple effects are far-reaching--even to the other side of the world. In Australia, a national...
4) Black & blue
Author
Publisher
BookShots
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
156, 12 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Stealthily tracking a savage killer who is targeting women university students, single-minded detective Harriet Blue discovers unsettling clues surrounding a latest victim that point to an even more chilling predator.
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2003
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 23 cm.
6) Crimson Lake
Author
Series
Crimson Lake volume 1
Formats
Description
Wrongly accused of the abduction of a thirteen-year-old girl, Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey is forced to hide in the crocodile-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake, where he agrees to help convicted killer Amanda Pharrell in a case involving dangerous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Description
From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power. Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his radical preaching against the Vietnam War, apartheid, and other hot button issues, Father Frank Docherty made for himself a satisfying career as a psychologist and monk. When he returns to Australia to lecture...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder-and thereby risk deportation. Danny-formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam-is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden...
10) Eden
Author
Series
Archer and Bennett thrillers volume 2
Formats
Description
Going undercover on a remote farm to investigate the disappearances of three girls, Eden alarms Frank with her vigilante approaches to justice and her past affiliation with a sadistic crime lord.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A meth-addicted biker shoots a woman during a police siege. An elderly couple commit suicide on the terrace of their favorite café. An unidentified white male is stabbed to death in the street. For Sydney homicide detective Harry Belltree, not long out of the military and a grueling tour of Afghanistan, these three deaths appear to be just another day at the office. Until, that is, he identifies the stabbing victim as his own brother-in-law Greg,...
12) Hush hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Publisher
Century, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 19 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Detective Harriet Blue is in prison. For murder. But now Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods is offering her a 'get out of jail free' card. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child are missing and he needs Harry's expertise - and willingness to go outside the law - to find them, fast. So Harry walks out of the prison gates - and straight into a deadly game. Because although Tonya has a top cop for a father, she also has some dangerous friends....
14) Razorhurst
Author
Formats
Description
In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.
Author
Series
Billie Walker mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Meet Billie Walker--a staunchly feminist, champagne-swilling, fast-driving investigator based in glamorous post-WII Sydney--as she matches wits against Sydney's gangster underworld to find a missing boy before it's too late"--
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the shocking events that rocked her hometown in New Zealand, Detective Robin Griffin has returned to Sydney and is trying to rebuild her life. When the unidentified body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realizes "China Girl" didn't die alone.
18) Ash Island
Author
Series
Belltree trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Pub. Date
©1995.
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Broome, Australia, 1893. It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995. Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family roots which leads her to Broome. But her quest for identity reveals more than she could have ever imagined.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request