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X Ray Vision
Ray’s small world is about to get a whole lot bigger. With his busy, regimented routines and affinity for drawing, his autism and Tourette's syndrome don’t bother him.
What really starts troubling Ray is what goes on behind closed doors? What hides within four walls? And what lurks beneath the river?
How will he cope seeing things differently?
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The Valley's Secret
In the remote Australian High Country, a serial killer thought dormant for over thirty years is suddenly exposed when a freak biking accident reveals his dumping ground: a densely wooded valley holding a graveyard of bones.
The injured cyclist fights for survival, using all his wits and stamina to escape the valley’s overgrown trails back to civilization. Little does he know his traumatic discovery will reopen decades-old murder cases that have long gone cold.
In this gripping thriller, the killer’s deep pathological need for validation and pleasure has driven him to strike again and again since 1982. But advancements in forensic science and his own carelessness will finally bring his buried secrets to light. As detectives race to stop another killing spree, they uncover the shocking truth about the sadistic murderer who has been hiding in plain sight.
Tense and propulsive, The Valley’s Secret will plunge you into the darkness of this serial killer’s double life and the relentless pursuit to unmask him before more innocent lives are taken.
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Canal Barge Blues
Private Investigator Agnes Trout is seeking balance in her relationships when an old friend in England asks for help locating his aunt, who went missing over eighty years ago. Agnes relishes immersing herself in a new missing person case, but complications arise when human bones surface by her friend’s canal barge home. A brutal decades-old murder unravels, plunging Agnes into a quest for answers across England and South Wales. She is joined by her intriguing new partner Jonathan Black, and the search also leads Agnes to revelations closer to home.
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Hide 'N' Seek
Wilson, chief of the Australian Spy Agency, posts Tony Jones to Buenos Aires to investigate the funding of terrorists in South America. He mysteriously vanishes with an accomplice, an enigmatic ‘old lady’ Joan Davis. Together they expose, capture, or eliminate the extortionists, and belatedly inform Wilson. He unenthusiastically orders Jones to Chile to continue his mission.
The stakes escalate as Jones is captured by the terrorist Patriotic Front and a ransom is paid, deepening the mystery. Newly freed Jones and Davis do the impossible and their fearless man infiltrates the Front. Discovery means instant death. The reward is priceless.
Wilson learns only what Jones chooses to reveal. He and Davis prove to be brilliant, unpredictable, disobedient operatives. The next to face a fear campaign is Santiago. A showdown looms. Jones and trusted allies confront the terrorists.
Davis stars in a related subplot. When they reunite, their combined efforts bring the terrorist plot to an end, but the story is far from over. The action ignites in Sydney on their return, where recalcitrant Jones faces unforeseen consequences. The surprise ending stuns the assembled staff of the ASA, Wilson and the reader.
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Pretty Eyes
After PI Agnes Trout repels a vicious attack by an intruder in her New York City apartment, she discovers that other women have been attacked by the same perpetrator. Even though the attacker is known, none of the women attempt to bring him to justice. Agnes’s own quest uncovers a brutal murder and brings her into contact with the glacial matriarch of a wealthy family, an enigmatic, charming fixer and a cold-blooded killer. At the same time, she is asked by a close friend to look into the checkered life of the friend’s secretive and menacing husband.
Determined attempts on her life and malicious threats will not slow Agnes down as, along with help from unexpected quarters, she goes after a killer and a scheming husband.
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Raising the Dead
Emeline Upswatch, a naive 20-year-old bride, is grief-stricken after the deaths of both of her beloved parents. Now, Emeline believes she has made a grave error in moving with her husband, Randy, from her California Delta childhood home to unknown Charles Town, Virginia. She questions her marriage and herself. Marooned in grief in an unfamiliar world and intimidated by her mother-in-law, Emeline is rescued by the appearance of a mysterious older woman, Felicity, who becomes her dearest friend, mentor, and “other mother” with whom she can share her innermost feelings. Unlike Emeline, Felicity divulges nothing about her history or personal life. When Felicity disappears as mysteriously as she arrived, Emeline is determined to unearth her older friend’s whereabouts. What she ultimately discovers forces her to question her sanity, world, memories, and newfound joy.
In her second book, Jayne Lisbeth cements her reputation as a “sensitive, entertaining and deeply moving writer.” In Raising the Dead her quirky, mysterious, home-spun and loveable characters keep the reader engaged and entertained from the first page to the last.
Early reviews praise Raising the Dead as “a deep and emotional account of Emeline’s introspective journey with a wholesome, spiritual, supernatural angle ... Inspirational ... A poignant plot, with a well-structured, assured writing style, sure to appeal to a wide audience.”
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The Frasco Diary
Emily Burel, a PhD, scientist and adventurer who works out of Sydney University, is head hunted by Security Agent Andreas Doratis, for Michael Westlake of the British Museum, and Marie de Becque from Le Musee du Louvre in Paris. De Becque believes she has evidence proving that a model for the Pieta was a woman from the Orient who lived with Michelangelo as his mistress. Burel, accepting the challenge to find the truth of this claim, begins her investigation at a monastery in the Swiss Alps. She is neither alone nor safe in her search though, as others from Europe, Asia and Africa follow dangerously close behind her, looking for answers, and rewards, of their own.
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The Kilborn Murders
After the reading of the will at his brother’s estate, only Eric Kilborn is left alive. He is arrested and charged with the murders of his relatives. The only other witness to what happened at the estate, Nick Roberts, has vanished, and the authorities only have Eric’s word that such a person even exists.
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Wild Marjoram
It’s 1981 and twenty-nine-year-old Paula has fled from London to Norwich to escape her failed marriage and a disturbed past. But it seems her past is lying in wait for her,stalking the quiet Norfolk countryside and the bustling streets of Norwich, threatening to overwhelm her sanity and even end her life. Chillingly, she learns that something terrible will happen on her thirtieth birthday, which is only a few weeks away, but she has no idea where the threat is coming from or what form it will take. Paula’s picture of “Wild Marjoram”, painted by her dead mother, is meant to protect her, but Paula is fast losing confidence in it. Everybody she meets is somehow connected to her parents and her past, and Paula begins to realise that if she is to survive, she must somehow unveil her blocked memories and discover what it was that her parents really did during the war…
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Far Beyond Duty
The journey readers are taken along with Titus into the dark inner workings of our world as he travels across Asia where insurance fraud murder and terrorism are uncovered. The rampant corruption viewed through Titus’ fresh eyes puts a compelling spin on this thrilling tale. The plot reveals the dirty secrets and scandalous crimes hidden behind the walls, building suspense that leaves readers hungry for more.
Brutally honest storytelling blends with exciting twists and turns, challenging stereotypes with a deep emotional impact that grips readers to the final suspenseful scene. The transfixing narrative subverts classic morality with its unpredictable revelations.
Each layer of Titus’ journey is followed with bated breath in this memorable, stand-alone work. Detailed world building, nuanced characters, and an immersive, fast-paced plot leave readers wishing to know more about what awaits Titus and his potential new love, Rose, in this chaotic world of corruption. A story worthy of attention.
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Murder on the Angkor Express
The Kingdom of Cambodia is struggling into the twenty-first century, following the Pol Pot “killing fields” which erased a third of the population in the late 1970s. The encroaching dragons of mighty China and vibrant Vietnam vie with the tiger of Thailand to squeeze the precious life from the Mekong River Basin.
Politics is still dominated by the enduring shadow of the Khmer Rouge whose tentacles pervade a corrupt oligarchy, which is fighting to keep out the popular opposition leader, Sam Rainsy.
With a backdrop of potential civil war, our hero Chief Inspector Suon has to solve the case of Leap Son. A body found at the end of the murderous six-hour bus journey from Battambang to Siem Reap. With a coachload of tourists, all with a tale to tell or a secret to keep. Will Chief Inspector Suon be able to solve a crime committed in full view of all yet seen by no-one? More importantly, will he be allowed to?
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The el Toro Problem and Other Stories
Larry Carmody, private investigator, lives in a nighttime world of 1930s crime noir, a world of bottomless cynicism, triple standards, and scathingly black humor. There is no doing good in the world of Larry Carmody. There is only the cynicism and black humor needed to stay alive in the midst of convoluted plots and the nighttime world of crime. For some, that is. The accomplished and lucky ones. The rest perish.
In the world of Larry Carmody, you have to get the low-down. And you have to find a way out. Otherwise someone will show you the foolproof way out, by means of force-feeding you lead with an equalizer.
Larry Carmody himself says: “A case can sometimes be opened and shut in no time. It doesn’t often go down that way, but when it does, you can most often exchange the word ‘shut’ for the word ‘shot’. And I am not speaking of a shot of whisky in an instance such as this. I am using the word ‘shot’ in the sense of the main player in the case having been shot to death. Usually my client.”£8.99