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DALY, Neil

Mar 17, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Mystery Fiction, Thriller Fiction, Victoria

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Your Sins Will Seek You Out

A Novel Based On True Events

Barry Keating’s cunning and violent nature manifested from his first childhood contact with other children.

John and Ruth Keating adopted Barry from birth.

John Keating, a community person, is also a career policeperson involved in numerous crime and traffic incidents as he advanced through the ranks. His involvement with the public and criminals outlines his quick reactions to planning and delegating. Undiagnosed PTSD haunts him throughout his career and his life.

Barry’s violent responses are often easily given; he rarely takes them.

His continuance with violence against both men and women maintains his rage while committing terrible crimes. Even after finding love and domestic commitment, his urges cannot be denied, and they take control.

Follow these real-life events, where only the names and locations are changed.

BALL, Michael

Jan 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Action Adventure, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Thriller Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

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Zoe baird

 

Pathogens & Popstars

Sometimes Grit Matters More Than Being Prepared

When a chaotic car chase brings long-hidden family secrets crashing into the open, Zoe’s world is turned upside-down. Thrust into a shadowy realm of spies with murder on their minds, she must stop a deadly pathogen from devastating her hometown—all while
trying to keep up appearances at school.

Armed with little more than her wits and determination, Zoe faces impossible odds in a game she never signed up for—but one she must win. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and failure isn’t an option.

Written by a veteran with over a decade of experience in military intelligence, Zoe Baird: Pathogens and Popstars delivers a grounded, realistic spy thriller perfect for fans of Alex Rider. Packed with high-stakes action and moral complexity, this story redefi nes the young adult espionage genre.

About the Author

 

Michael Ball is an Australian author with a past as intriguing as his books. Through 11 years as a military intelligence analyst and his current role at Disaster Relief Australia, Michael has encountered an incredible range of people with extraordinary experiences. These encounters fuel his writing, which delves into the gritty realities of hidden worlds, the tough decisions made by the few for the good of the many, and the power of resilience and determination over intellect or skill. Through his stories, Michael explores themes of resilience and agency, always reminding readers, “It is never too dark to dream, nor too late to step foot on your own path.”

DOWNES, Michael

Jul 8, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Thriller Fiction

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The Introspective Detective

 

Unravelling the murder requires him to confront his own past and future

INTROSPECTIVE. characterised by the examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings: thoughtfully reflective: too often considered a sign of weakness when it should be an indication of strength.

A man found murdered on the last Melbourne Metro train to Hurstbridge. Detective Inspector Robin Lazelle, a thirty-year homicide veteran, leads the investigation.

Lazelle has grown up in a dysfunctional family and for the whole of his life has a voided crowds and noises and is more at home in solitude. He is not in any way gregarious. At the same time, he is admired by his colleagues and considered almost indispensable because of his amazing skills as a detective. He may not be a ‘people person’, but he certainly can find the ‘bad guy’.

This difficult case with its twists and turns challenges Lazelle and his team. For the man himself, now near retirement, it causes him to reexamine his life, his future, and his feelings about himself and for others.

The murder investigation, the unusual weapon, and the person involved, many within the medical fraternity at St. Bart’s Hospital, uncovers more victims than only the deceased. It is full of intrigue, emotional abuse and sexual impropriety that affects the livers of the people involved, both among the investigators and the investigated.

From the Author

Although this is an intriguing murder mystery, I wrote this book about the man… the introspective detective. His story is the focus.

It deals with many issues that many men near retirement or having already retired might identify with. It is a reflection about life and living when we get older. In this case, the detective, Robin Lazelle, has many issues because of his past childhood, the death of a sister when he was just a teenager, becoming a very good detective and learning to get on as best he could with other people.

I guess when you are an author in your eighties, a lot of what you write is from personally knowing people in such positions and having experienced many feelings yourself. The work is pure fiction, but personal feelings obviously influence an author when writing a book.

Michael Downes

HAINES, Evan

Feb 27, 2024 | *Featured books, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Thriller Fiction

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The Last Head Hunters

Derrick Marsh returns to his home city after disappearing while living with the last head-hunting tribes in New Guinea.

However, shortly after he returns home, a strange and terrifying masked assailant begins disrupting the city, a police investigation, and a mining company connected to New Guinea.

The media immediately jump on the story, dubbing the assailant the Hectorville Head Hunter.

Notions of good and evil quickly blur, as Derrick is tested to make the right choices and to find the truth about New Guinea. But is Derrick really seeking the truth or just revenge against those who left him for dead?

ANVIL, Michael

Dec 15, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Thriller Fiction, War Fiction

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The Limehouse Chronicles

Part 1

THE MOMENT YOU START READING YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN.

Step into a riveting WWII saga as Peter Wayman and Anne Colyer’s lives are upended by the German Luftwaffe during ‘The Blitz.’ Follow their journey from London’s East End to the nuclear disarmament marches of the 1950s, where they face an unforeseen future.

As Peter, a Royal Navy Signals officer, is drawn into the secretive world of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) by Captain Smith, they embark on daring night flights to Southern France. Their mission: to establish escape lines for downed pilots and refugees, obstructing the Nazi war machine. From the wartime Savoy Hotel in London to the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean, follow their perilous adventures, entangled in a web of American bases, ‘Cold War’ spies, and unexpected alliances. Immerse yourself in the fascinating first part of The Limehouse Chronicles, an unforgettable journey through history in Michael Anvil’s debut masterpiece.

DISCOVER THIS CAPTIVATING SERIES IN THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES.
FROM THE DARK EDGES OF SECRECY, TREACHERY AND WAR.
COLLUSION IS SURVIVAL AND DECEPTION IS THE GAME.

GREEN S.K.

Oct 18, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Thriller Fiction, Victoria

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Suburban Insurgent

A Veteran’s Crime Odyssey

The only way to succeed in Melbourne’s globalised criminal world is to cripple bodies, end lives, and build alliances, only to destroy them.

That’s a lesson veteran Jason Farrelly is about to learn first-hand.

Disillusioned, disconnected and in need of a violent action fix due to his operational experience, Farrelly uses his military skills and street smarts to obtain illegal positions of power and accumulate great wealth.

A Chinese gang, Aryan militants, and notorious narco kings all feel the full effect of contracting and brutally falling out with Jason Farrelly, the suburban insurgent.

About the Author

Green S.K. is a former infantry soldier and member of the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, with which he went on operational service.

He has also spent much of his working life in the civilian security industry and holds a Master’s in Counter Terrorism Studies, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences.