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1) Fifty fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Language
English
Description
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES . . . that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Detective Harriet Blue is certain that her brother is incapable of having committed these horrific crimes. Determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career, Harry attends Sam's hearing. The outburst she unleashes earns her a reassignment--to the Outback. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES . . . that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent...
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the murder of her younger brother at a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburbs--a murder that a dozen bystanders claim they didn't see, and the police are unable or unwilling to solve--Ky sets aside her grief to track down and confront the witnesses herself.
6) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her...
13) Lost & found
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the four McDonald children changed forever when their mother abandoned them. Forty years later they struggle to come to terms with their mother's reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia.
15) Mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
16) The island
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry,...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Baker and investigator Corinna Chapman accepts a catering job on a film set and becomes involved in a number of complications involving nursery rhymes, a tiger named Tabitha, and a corporation with questionable bookkeeping practices.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
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