Crime, thriller & detective

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Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea, and mystery... Life's a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn's mysterious death. Despite her cousin's sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn Manor. But there's more to the old house than meets the eye, as Rosemary and Athena soon find out - in a whirlwind of magic, adventure, mystical cre

Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea and mystery... Life's a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn's mysterious death. Despite her cousin's sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn Manor. But there's more to the old house than meets the eye, as Rosemary and Athena soon find out - in a whirlwind of magic, adventure, mystical crea

Welcome to Mulbury where the bodies are piling up. Rosemary Exeter knows quite a few things about jams and pickles. She's learning quite a few things about murder, too. The little Australian tourist town of Mulbury is usually a quiet place where visitors eat Franco's pies in the Square, drink Rakisha's earth-friendly legume coffee, and browse the range of second-hand books at Jasper's Read Mulbury. When Mrs Lionel discovers the body of an old man under The Exceptional Tree, everyone in

Jemma didn't know that her grandfather was the Supreme Ruler of the planet Anders Major, or that she is now his heir, until she encounters Frederick Pritchard in the rainforest, a place where she has always felt safe. As she unravels the truth that Pritchard murdered her grandfather, and then her parents, she discovers, to her horror, that he now intends to release an alien virus on Earth, to create a pandemic that will kill millions. With the help of military man, Sean Bellamy, she discov

A harrowing insight into New York City's most notorious detention complex, Rikers Island. This novel plays through multiple characters who possess control and power within the jail, along with the inmates and civilians who witness the violence, drugs, sex, and corruption that occurs every day inside. The seclusion of the jail from the city's beautiful skyline can seem like an amazing inferno to outsiders, however, for those who make it to the other side whether to make a living, being detained

Cold, ruthless Lord Warhurst needs to distance himself from scandal if he's to marry an heiress and save his decaying estate. But with his unwed sister falling pregnant, and his father's past indiscretions still haunting Leo, scandal threatens to erupt in an explosive way. Especially when he begins to desire strong-willed and low-born Alice Croft, the seamstress to Lord Hawkesbury's Players and the woman helping him spy on his sister's lover. If anyone finds out, Leo's chance of marrying well w

Garry Barton, an Australian business consultant working for a Chicago-based, accounting firm so enrages his firm's partnership by telling them they were technologically backward, that he is fired. He joins a small partnership and takes so much business away from his old firm that they panic and try to have him killed.

In a small city in Jasper county, Arkansas, local billionaire Phillip Bates is a philanthropist who spends his days helping improve the town and the lives of the people in it. After his life is shattered when local law enforcement fails to protect his family, Phillip takes the law into his own hands and executes a racist police officer in cold blood. As he finds himself on trial for his life, will the people he's worked so hard to help and protect find him guilty of murder? Will his busines

A gruesome murder is the first major crime that recently promoted Sergeant of Detectives Madeleine Axford must investigate. Despite what seems to be an obviously open-and-shut case, she confronts the universal puzzle: What appears to be, is not necessarily so. This conflict of appearance versus reality spreads until it involves not only the team examining the murder, but also Clara, an eighty-seven years old Cree woman, and the local representatives of all three Provincial political parties. As

A missing woman. A dead girl. And the only suspect seven months dead.

After, book one in Peter Mulraney's Inspector West crime series.