FUNNY STORY

Emily Henry

$ 34.99

available 23 april

Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story . Too bad it turned out to be a prequel to Peter ’ s actual love story with Petra . Stranded , she propositions Petra ’ s heartbroken ex , Miles , to move in as a temporary fix . Her exact opposite , it ’ s unbearably awkward until one drunken night . A tenuous friendship formed , Miles convinces her to give this idyllic town one last summer – he ’ ll show her why he loves it and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together , so be it . Is Miles an interlude in her great love story with Peter or was Peter just a footnote to that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé ’ s new fiancé ’ s ex-boyfriend ?

SANCTUARY

Garry Disher

$ 34.99

A thrilling new standalone set in regional South Australia , from one of Australia ’ s most esteemed crime writers . Grace is a thief – a good one . She specialises in small , high-value items : stamps , watches , and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes . But it ’ s a solitary life , always watchful , always moving – not the kind of life she wanted . Lying low after a run-in with an old associate , Grace walks into Erin Mandel ’ s rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different . A normal job . A place to call home . But some very dangerous men are looking for Erin and for Grace too . Seems normal will have to wait .

PHEASANTS NEST

Louise Milligan

$ 32.99

Kate Delaney picked the wrong guy to humiliate on a girls ’ night out . She finds herself brutalised , bound and gagged in the back of a car . As a journalist , Kate is terrifyingly familiar with the statistics about women who go missing . She tries to keep herself sane by thinking about her beloved boyfriend and friends . Kate ’ s boyfriend Liam is left behind , struggling with his fear and desperation as the police establish a major investigation . The detectives face their own feelings of anguish as they reflect on the cases they didn ’ t solve in time and the victims they couldn ’ t save . Award-winning writer and journalist Louise Milligan has written a stunning and surprising thriller with a gigantic heart .

IT TAKES A TOWN

Aoife Clifford

$ 34.99

So many people had reason to hate her , but did anyone have reason to kill her ? Everyone dies famous in a country town , but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star . A celebrity since she was a child , Vanessa is back on the front page for all the wrong reasons ; after a terrible storm she has been found dead at the bottom of her stairs . At first her death seems to be a simple accident , but anonymous letters are discovered that suggest otherwise – and when 16-year-old Jasmine Langridge claims it is murder , she suddenly disappears . As the police begin to investigate , secrets are exposed and friendships unravel . It will take a town to solve this crime , but what will be broken in the effort to piece together the truth ?

BONE LANDS

Pip Fioretti

$ 34.99

On a winter ’ s night in 1911 arid New South Wales wool country , mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins , a traumatised veteran of the Boer War , discovers three bodies – scions of the richest family in the district . Savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling , had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher . With his honour and sanity at stake , he becomes hell-bent on finding the murderer . But as ever darker secrets are revealed about the people he thinks of as friends , Hawkins is forced to confront an uncomfortable question : who is paying the price for the new nation ’ s prosperity ?

CLOSE TO DEATH : HAWTHORNE AND HOROWITZ MYSTERY # 5

Anthony Horowitz

$ 34.99

available 16 april

Richmond upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London . And Riverview Close – a quiet , gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life . Until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children , his four gas-guzzling cars , and his loud parties . His neighbours all have a reason to hate him . When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck , all of them come under suspicion , opening the door to lies , deception and further death . The police are baffled . Reluctantly , they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne . But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle . How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive ?

THE CRYPTIC CLUE : A TEA LADIES MYSTERY

Amanda Hampson

$ 34.99

In ZigZag Lane , the heart of Sydney ’ s rag-trade district , tea ladies Hazel , Betty and Irene find themselves in hot water . They ’ ve earned the respect of the local police officer . Now he needs their help to solve a plot that threatens security . If that ’ s not enough , Irene gets a coded message directing her to the spoils of a bank robbery , sending the tea ladies on a treasure hunt . There ’ s also trouble brewing within the walls of Empire Fashionwear . An interloper threatens not just Hazel ’ s job but the very role of tea lady . It ’ s up to Hazel to convince her friends to abandon their trolleys and take action to save their livelihoods . Ideal for fans of Richard Osman .

A CALAMITY OF SOULS

David Baldacci

$ 34.99 $ 29.99

Virginia , 1968 . Jack Lee , a white lawyer , breaks his silence on racism to represent Jerome Washington , a black man charged with killing an elderly and wealthy white couple . Desiree DuBose is a black lawyer from Chicago devoted to justice who comes to Virginia and enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee . They face a legal battle against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth and powerful outside forces resisting the victories achieved by the Civil Rights era . On their own , neither one can stop the prosecution ’ s deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair . But together , the pair fight for what once seemed impossible : a chance for a fair trial and true justice .