Collection: Fiction

A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is out bush with his little sister Grace from Boston. They're fetching his cousin Blair, who's been mining boulder opal in Kanpara. The town is tense with rumours of a big opal find, and Blair wants out.

Lili Berry is busy curating a tidy life for herself in the charming coastal village of Swanning, before the death of her beautiful sister, Honey, upends everything. A shocked Lili sets out to discover the cause of Honey's death, finding relief from her raw grief amid a flurry of investigative act...

Previously published in the 2020 collection If It Bleeds, and soon to be a movie starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan. It is now available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition.

Detective Stayer moves to the quiet beach town of Thoorgala hoping to reconnect with his estranged sister, Ruby. But when women are found murdered and Ruby vanishes, he must team up with folklore-savvy Sister Catherine to uncover the truth behind a deadly legend.

Netflix film - starring Jill Halfpenny, Owen McDonnell and Aidan McArdle. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, an ideal way for Kate to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Languedoc-Roussillon. But there is trouble in...

For most of her adult life, Laura has lived in the UK, her ties to her Brisbane upbringing all but severed. When her parents, Bruce and Eliza, perish in mysterious circumstances in the Queensland outback, she and her family must return to settle their affairs and sell the now-dilapidated house of...

Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself floundering in a sea of awkward run-ins and silent group chats.

Did anyone know Dr Gabriel Beaufort better than Ruby Rose Gillespie? They were friends at high school. They are secret lovers now. And because he is also the lung-transplant surgeon who saved her life, Ruby will forever be in his debt.

In the aftermath of a tumultuous year, Fiona Winslow finds solace in the decaying grandeur of Wurimbirra, the rambling family estate. Intent on restoring it - despite her mother's objections - she discovers the keys to more than just the dilapidated country mansion. Beneath the crumbling plaster ...

Located off the coast of South Australia, Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring deadly great white sharks and forgotten shipwrecks. Over the centuries the Islanders have cultivated a sense of self-sufficiency, independence and resilience.