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Water Rats Hodder Headline (publisher), series - publisher
1 y separately published work icon Prisoner S. R. White , London : Hodder Headline , 2021 22947321 2021 single work novel crime mystery 'When a man is found savagely 'crucified' amidst a murky swamp in northern Australia, detective Dana Russo and her team are called to a shocking scene. The victim is a convicted rapist, just released from prison, who years earlier committed an atrocious crime yards from where he was killed.Who murdered him - and why? With several potential leads, the investigation quickly becomes more complex, and sinister, than anyone imagined. And Dana realises she'll have to confront her own troubled past to understand the true motives of the killer...' (Publication summary)
2 1 y separately published work icon Hermit S. R. White , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2020 19527587 2020 single work novel thriller

'HE DISAPPEARED FOR 15 YEARS...SHE HAS 12 HOURS TO FIND OUT WHY.

'Compulsive, atmospheric and stunningly accomplished, HERMIT introduces a thrilling new voice in Australian crime fiction, perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Chris Hammer.

'After the puzzling death of a shopkeeper in rural Australia, troubled detective Dana Russo has just 12 hours to interrogate the prime suspect - a silent, inscrutable man found at the scene of the crime, who simply vanished 15 years earlier.

'Where has he been? And just how dangerous is he? Without conclusive evidence linking him to the killing, Dana must race against time to persuade him to speak. But over a series of increasingly intense interviews, Dana is forced to confront her own past if she wants him to reveal the shocking truth.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Dana Russo Detective Series S. R. White , London : Hodder Headline , 2020- 23059293 2020 series - author novel
1 13 y separately published work icon The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014 7472103 2014 single work novel thriller

'There are times in your life when something happens, after which you're never the same. It may be something direct or indirect, or something someone says to you. But whatever it is, there is no going back.

'Paris: 1989. Recently retired police inspector Auguste Jovert receives a letter from a woman who claims to be his daughter. Two days later, a stranger comes knocking on his door…

'Set in France and Japan, The Snow Kimono tells the stories of Jovert, former Professor of Law Tadashi Omura, and his one-time friend the writer Katsuo Ikeda. All three have lied to themselves, and to each other. Their lies are about to catch up with them.

'A quarter of a century after the award-winning bestseller Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw returns with an intricately plotted, beautifully written novel that is both a psychological thriller and an unforgettable meditation on love and loss, memory and its deceptions, and the ties that bind us to others.' (Publication summary)
14 10 y separately published work icon Graffiti Moon Cath Crowley , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2010 Z1720738 2010 single work novel young adult

'Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it. Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other.

'An intense and exhilarating 24 hours in the lives of four teenagers on the verge: of adulthood, of HSC, of finding out just who they are, and who they want to be.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 1 y separately published work icon Death Force Matthew Lynn , London : Hodder Headline , 2008 Z1568575 2008 single work novel thriller
1 1 y separately published work icon Mango Hill Patricia Shaw , London : Hodder Headline , 2007 Z1402737 2007 single work novel historical fiction
4 2 y separately published work icon River of the Sun Patricia Shaw , London : Headline , 1991 Z151612 1991 single work novel historical fiction When Perfection Middleton catches the eye of Darcy Buchanan, all hell breaks loose. Joint heir to the vast estate of Caravale in North Queensland, he's a catch all right, and far too good for a housemaid whose parents came over on a convict ship. That's what his family thinks, anyway, and his brother Ben dreams up an ingenious plan to prevent the marriage. It's a plan that goes tragically wrong...Lew Cavour is very taken with Perfy too, but he gets caught up in the gold rush and the race to stake a claim on the river of gold, as does Ben Buchanan, who sees it as the only way he can buy out Perfy's share of Caravale. But their journey to the river of gold is dogged by disease, madness and murder... (Source: Trove)
1 4 y separately published work icon For Freedom Joy Chambers , London : Hodder Headline , 2006 Z1343506 2006 single work novel 'Joy Chambers' historical novel is an epic and dramatic story set in the Phillipines during the Second World War. It is a tangled story of two couples in love and war. In Hong Kong, before her marriage to John Drayton, Lexine has a night of passion with an American officer, which results in the birth of a baby boy. Letting her husband believe their son is his child, they him bring up together until the war interrupts their lives. Leaving home on a boat in a desperate attempt to escape the Japanese, Lexine and her family are shipwrecked. Believing she is the only survivor, she is distraught about the loss of her family. She sets up home in the Philipines and agrees to look after two orphaned children. Desperately trying to flee from the Japanese, she encounters the American officer once again and her past comes back to haunt her. Lexine's best friend, Kathleen also survives the shipwreck and is taken in by a vicious and cruel Japanese general. Even though she is a vulnerable prisoner of war, he strangely never leases his violence on her. The mysterious tangles between the characters is played out in dramatic and momentous style, resulting in a powerful conclusion.' Source: Libraries Australia.
1 2 y separately published work icon Fox Hunt James Phelan , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2006 Z1292064 2006 single work novel thriller

'When the world faces a deadly threat from a lost weapon, Lachlan Fox, disillusioned ex-Navy operative, is forced back into action. Lachlan Fox has made a career out of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a shore assault specialist in an Australian Navy Clearance Diver Team, he came up against bad guys and even worse odds. Having been discharged from the Navy, Fox tries to enjoy the quiet life, but during a visit from his best friend Alister Gammaldi, Fox's life is thrown out of balance. On a diving trip off Christmas Island the pair recover an obviously military but unidentifiable pod from the sea floor of the Indian Ocean - setting in motion a chain of events that will drag them both into the corrupt world of international politics and arms races. From East Timor and Christmas Island to Grozny, Washington to New York, Venice to Iran, Lachlan Fox is forced back into action to save the world from a deadly threat.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 1 y separately published work icon Treasure Islands : Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Pamela Stephenson , London : Hodder Headline , 2005 Z1222559 2005 single work prose travel
2 3 y separately published work icon Storm Bay Patricia Shaw , ( trans. Susanne Goga-Klinkenberg with title Insel der glühenden Sonnen : Roman ) Augsburg : Weltbild , 2004 Z1402673 2004 single work novel historical fiction 'A powerful testament to the human spirit, Storm Bay looks back to the early days of Van Diemen's Land and the thousands of prisoners who suffered severe mental and physical cruelty, but rose above it to create a great State and earn the respect of a nation.' (Publisher's blurb, back cover)
2 8 y separately published work icon A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers with My Dad William McInnes , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2005 Z1206517 2005 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Encounters : Real Life Reading 2007; (p. 438-574)
1 1 y separately published work icon Dan Dann the Dunnyman : The Truth is Down There Peter Viska , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2004 Z1216950 2004 single work children's fiction children's humour
1 7 y separately published work icon Spiking the Girl Gabrielle Lord , Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2004 Z1133615 2004 single work novel crime detective

'When Private Investigator Gemma Lincoln agrees to investigate a missing student from exclusive Netherleigh Park Ladies College, she finds herself drawn into a double murder case surrounded by a wall of silence. Gemma s best friend Detective Sergeant Angie McDonald helps, but Angie is overworked, unsupported by an incompetent superior officer, and crazy in love.' (Publication summary)
18 9 y separately published work icon Brilliance of the Moon Lian Hearn , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2004 Z1119880 2004 single work novel fantasy young adult

Peace comes at the price of bloodshed-five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose. At the temple of Terayama, the words of the blind sage's prophecy continue to haunt Takeo as he readies his armies for battle. Determined to avenge Shigeru's death and claim his rightful inheritance, Takeo and Kaede, together with Takeo's forces; fight their way to the domain of Maruyama. But then they must separate. Takeo makes plans for a battle by the sea, and Kaede returns to her family's home at Shirakawa. Will they see each other again? (Publication summary)

 
1 4 y separately published work icon French Letters Bruno Bouchet , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2004 Z1119847 2004 single work novel humour

'On the lookout for the next big thing in food, New York trendspotter Peter Noirelle is drawn into his estranged father's culinary scam... Greque-en-Provence, a frightful fusion of French and Greek cuisine aimed at turning a tiny (and none too innocent) Provencal village into a money spinner. The primal forces of fate, farce and fondue are in the hands of something wickedly funny.

'Will anyone swallow it.' (Publication summary)
2 6 y separately published work icon The Walker Jane R. Goodall , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2004 Z1108284 2004 single work novel crime thriller

Detect'ive Briony Williams is a rookie appointed to an all-male team investigating a bizarre murder at an anatomy college in Bloomsbury. Her superiors constantly make her feel left out. But a killer obsessed with following Jack the Ripper soon changes that. The killer is a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak. He arranges his victims bodies in cruel parodies of famous satirical engravings by Hogarth. As the summer and the swinging 60s wind to a terrible climax, this multi-layered thriller brings the startling and terrible strands of the story together. ' (Publication summary)
1 6 y separately published work icon Dangerous Places Ann Charlton , Sydney : Hodder Headline , 2004 Z1104234 2004 single work novel young adult historical fiction adventure
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