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Sometimes you have to fight dirty to get clean.Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team.Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitle...

The Racketeer is a gripping legal thriller that drops you into a chilling double murder at a secluded lakeside cabin where a mystery mixes courtroom drama.A judge has been brutally murdered.His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bo...

This favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.Into the bleak coal-mining settlement isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast come five-year-old Rose and her mother. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Dennist...

A prize-winning historical novel that has become a New Zealand classic.Based on real events, this prize-winning novel is the compelling story of a marriage, of love and duty, and the quest for freedom in a pioneering age. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine’s...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.A century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros…Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne there was Dunk and Egg.A young...

An epic, adventurous and romantic historical timeslip novel.The key to her future is trapped in the past.In 1715, the Earl of Nithsdale is sentenced to be beheaded for his part in the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence.In 1978, Jane Maxwell is plagued with doubts about her engagemen...

The first Harry Hole thriller.Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl on her gap year in Sydney has been murdered and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can.When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will...

Book 5 in the thrilling DCI Jack Hawksworth seriesSuperstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn’t participate in. except the ransom photo denies that. A media darling on and off the field, he has powerful charisma, a perfect home life he’ll do anythin...

William Warwick and Ross Hogan will return, for one last time, in a gripping and unputdownable finale.London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on ear...

A heartbreaking tale of two immigrants from different cultures falling in love in a time steeped in racism, prejudice and judgement.By 1866 the initial rush for gold has been and gone. Alexandra is fast becoming a town of dwindling opportunities, especially for Ginny Doyle, an intelligent young Iris...

Colonial survivor, farmer's wife and horse whisperer Kitty Kirk is the central figure in this historical novel that looks at her colourful life. Kitty Kirk was arguably the toughest woman on the Otago goldfields.She lived from 1855 to 1930 during the turbulent period of the goldfield's history in Ce...

Note: this book has also been published as The German MidwifeGermany, 1944.A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive.But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerou s than she could ever have imagined. Eva...

Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does, every single day.After finding herself stuck in a relationship with the dangerous and morally corrupt Asa Jackson, Sloan will do whatever it takes to get by until she's able to find a way out. Nothing will get in her way. Nothing...

Housemaid #02: The Housemaid's Secret Freida McFaddenThis perfect home has one rule. Don't look behind closed doors.It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthous...

Another twisting, pulse-pounding addictive psychological thriller in The Housemaid series.My past is far, far behind us and I'll do anything to keep it that way.I used to clean other people's houses - now, I have one of my own. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids...

An unputdownable thriller from author Freida McFadden. Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can’t be taken back.Dawn Schiff is strange.At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right...

Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells s...

Nora Roberts is back with a brand-new novel about an injured cop in a race against time to find a twisted serial killer.Frustrated and bored, injured cop Sloan Cooper is looking for anything to distract her from staring down the barrel of months of slow, painful recovery. When a woman mysteriously v...

The Secrets of Maiden's Cove Erin PalmisanoWhen Grace inherits her late father's beloved restaurant in Maiden's Cove, it feels like a lifeline. Escaping her controlling husband, she to her enchanting childhood hometown with her young daughter.In the magical surrounds of Maiden's Cove, where rumours...

The Last Letter is a heart-breaking yet hopeful story about how love has the power to heal all wounds.One final letter. His last wish. Go and be with her.Beckett,If you're reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was...

From the rolling countryside of Kent to the colourful souks of Morocco, this is a heart-stopping novel of romance, intrigue and danger – and a passion to risk dying for.Impoverished Stella Myles meets the enigmatic Montgomery in a Piccadilly ballroom and he orchestrates a job for her as governess...

Love. Lies. Murder. A lot can happen. Come SundownBodine Longbow loves to rise with the dawn. As the manager of her family's resort in Western Montana, there just aren't enough hours in the day - for life, for work, for loved ones. She certainly doesn't have time for love, not even in the gorgeous s...

Paris, 1939: Gazing out at the glittering skyline, Evelina clutches the letter from her love in shaking hands. "I know I do not deserve you, my darling, but I pray that you will change your mind. You have my heart, and I hope that nothing will keep us apart.."London, present day. Blake gazes down at...

Grace has the perfect life: a job she loves, a beautiful daughter and a rich, successful husband. But one night, when their world falls apart in a shocking disaster, Grace suddenly sees what she couldn't admit - her marriage and her husband are a fraud.With the life she knew in tatters, she takes an...