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Murderous Australia

Tour the Australian continent through the eyes of their famous mystery writers.


Earthly DelightsAUSTRALIA
Earthly Delights
Larger-than-life Corinna Chapman owns and operates a Melbourne bakery in a building of eccentrics -- when she discovers a healf-dead junkie in the alley, the occupants of her building join forces to fight the threats, in this first of a series from Kerry Greenwood.

Moonlight DownsAUSTRALIA
Moonlight Downs
Adrian Hyland’s half-aboriginal Emily Tempest returns to the Outback ’blackfeller’ camp of Moonlight Downs after years of traveling around the world -- just as she’s settling in, her dear friend, a highly respected community leader, is found strangled and missing a kidney -- the mutilation points to the local sorcerer.

The Broken ShoreAUSTRALIA
The Broken Shore
Peter Temple’s big city cop, Joe Cashin, had hoped for a little peace when he accepted a detective posting in his quiet South Australia hometown, but no such luck -- he’s in the thick of a murder investigation, with three aboriginal boys as the main suspects.

The Dragon ManAUSTRALIA
The Dragon Man
Garry Disher’s Detective Inspector Chalis leads a solitary life -- nicknamed ’the dragon man,’ his wife Angela has spent the last seven years in prison for conspiring with her lover to murder him - now a serial killer is targeting young women outside of Melbourne, near his home.

Devil-DevilSOLOMON ISLANDS
Devil-Devil
As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, Graeme Kent’s Ben Kella is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities -- in the past few days he’s been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cult uprising, and failed to find a missing American anthropologist.

 
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