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Bare Bones<br />Pixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things – usually dead things – and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive.<br /> <br />Killing Kindness<br />When Cuddles, a wannabe fashion designer and bakery shop assistant, trips over a dead hit-and-run victim at midnight she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous scam. She shares iced buns with a crippled drugs dealer known as Al Capone and meets a sexy undercover cop with attitude, but she also has a run in with a couple of nutters who want to kill her as she gets close to solving the murder.

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In the heady days of the seventies, and at the tender age of nineteen, Decca Brand experimented with what was on offer – sex, drugs and intrigue. Far too much intrigue, it turns out, and of a sort that spells murder.<br /> <br />Fast forward nearly thirty years and Decca is confronted by dangerous figures from her past. Not only that, the stunning psychologist and divorcee has a blind date lined up with a married man.<br /> <br />And then things start to get complicated.

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Ronnie Collins is happily married with a gorgeous son.<br /> <br />She loves her job in fashion.<br /> <br />She's also naked, hungover and in a strange bed – and her problems have only just begun…

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A body washes up on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in flood. Caught in the act of taking his own life, and surrounded by the bloodstained clothes of his wife, Oleg Kransky is a shoe-in for number one suspect.<br /> <br />But he's not talking. To anyone.<br /> <br />Oleg's former psychologist, Decca Brand, tells the police that even when Oleg was talking he wasn't telling the truth – about himself or about his wife.<br /> <br />It's a complicated tale with more twists and turns than a box full of pretzels.<br /> <br />How much water will it take to flush out a murderer?<br /> <br />Flush is the third crime novel by Jane Clifton.

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Private investigator Jesse Clarke thought sugar was such an innocent substance until it turned up in two of her cases for totally the wrong reasons.<br /> <br />Traces of sugar were found in a bomb that blew up her client's Mercedes. Was the bomb meant to kill or was it just a warning?<br /> <br />And then, could sugar have duped the immune system of a client's mother over thirty ago, resulting in death?<br /> <br />Juggling the two cases – one in the present and one in the past – Jesse finds herself talking to the living and the dead to get results.

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Perth cop Eve Rock is investigating a series of abductions from the seedy inner-city Paradise Nightclub when her boss adds a murder case to her workload.<br /> <br />Now, Eve loves a challenge – about as much as she loves red wine, exotic food and cigars – but this case is a bit tricky because she'd speed dated the sleazy salesman hours before he met his Maker.<br /> <br />But then 'tricky' is Eve's middle name.<br /> <br />Her mum's a former hooker-turned-nun who runs a select girls school.<br /> <br />Her daughter's a fanatical 'Virgin Vigilante' who attends that same school.<br /> <br />And Eve is being stalked by a department store Santa.<br /> <br />If that isn't enough, her love life is dead in the water.<br /> <br />Or it is until Eve meets dreamy undercover cop Adam Fox whose sex appeal isn't diminished by his slut heels and micro skirt.<br /> <br />And then there's his equally gorgeous dad…<br /> <br />Eve's life could be peachy… except now someone wants to kill her.<br /> <br />Operation Paradise is the debut crime novel for West Australian writer Sarah Evans and the first in the Eve Rock comic crime series.

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Third in the PI series, Thicker than Water finds Kit O'Malley trying not to become too embroiled in the feud between three Melbourne crime families, while dealing with ghosts from her past, and a strange missing persons case.<br /> <br />The women's bar known as Angie's is the last place anyone expected to find the dead body of known-criminal Gerry Anders, and O'Malley soon discovers that helping her family of friends out of trouble can be just as dangerous as facing a deranged killer – only more complicated.<br /> <br />She has to deal with an old nemesis from her days of the force; the matriarch of the notorious Riley clan, who takes a liking to her; a troublemaking journalist; and a Romeo and Juliet scenario.<br /> <br />Kit's ex-partner, Detective Inspector Jon Marek, is not coping with the ugly reality of his on-going hunt for a serial killer; and, as the Feds are still spying on everyone, Kit's courtship of the gorgeous Alex Cazenove remains under wraps.<br /> <br />To cap it all off a good friend and his strange Russian-American client go missing, and suddenly everything points to old grudges and unresolved family tension.<br /> <br />Everything, that is, except the very strange connection to Melbourne's Bubble-Wrap Killer.

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Book 2 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Poison pens can draw blood. And that is exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O'Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.<br /> <br />As if trying to keep Rebecca alive and on the air wasn't enough, Kit is beset by a clutch of other people's catastrophes that require her very particular skills to resolve.<br /> <br />And, as Kit is the detective who can't say no, before she knows it she is up to her eyes in the worst that Australia's criminal minds can throw her way.<br /> <br />Money laundering, sordid sexual shenanigans, abduction, political sleaze, and murder among Melbourne's movers and shakers threaten to swamp Kit as she picks her way through the morass of double-dealing, treachery, and outright greed.<br /> <br />As if that's not enough, the beautiful and sexy Alex Casenove sweeps back into her life, reminding Kit that love is almost as deadly as hate and that murder never happens at a convenient time.<br /> <br />Bleeding Hearts, the sequel to the highly acclaimed debut Blood Guilt, is a tightly plotted romp through the dark underbelly of Australia's most-cultured city, vibrantly demonstrating that even the heartless bleed.

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Book 1 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Private investigator Kit O'Malley has had more exciting cases than following a wealthy client's husband, but Celia Robinson is paying big money to find out what the libidinous Geoffrey is up to with a blonde, a redhead and entrepreneur Ian Dalkeith and his group of shady businessmen.<br /> <br />Enduring a heatwave and fighting the inanimate objects that are out to get her are the hardest parts of Kit's assignment until a body is found in the Robinson's ornamental fish pond and everything takes a turn for the weird and nasty.<br /> <br />While the cops do their own thing, Celia's daughter Quinn hires Kit to find the killer and her mother's missing butler. What Kit doesn't count on is Quinn's determination to be involved in the case. To make matters worse she brings along her lawyer, Alexis Cazenove, who is as stunning as she is smart and has an extremely disconcerting effect on Kit's sense of balance.<br /> <br />After a near miss with a homicidal driver, Kit knows she's getting close to something – even if the truth seems to be that everyone has a secret. And then there's the question of just who the mysterious Mike Finnigan is following; is it Geoffrey, Dalkeith or Kit herself?

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The time is an imaginary future, one and a half millennia after the collapse of our own civilisation.<br /> <br />Nicholas Raspero, the descendant of the Barons of Raspero and the possessor of wandlore secrets, has arrived in New Landern, the capital of Anglashia. Almost immediately he is drawn into the underworld when he defeats a group of thugs who attempt to rob him, thus making him an enemy of Jolly, the most powerful gangster in the city. Jolly therefore recruits Angela Ashton, the lovely actress, to act as bait for a trap he has set for Nicholas Raspero. Meanwhile, Nicholas has set his heart on Isabel Grangeshield of Grangeshield House – the wealthiest, most beautiful heiress in New Landern and the most obstinate.<br /> <br />For lovers of steampunk and fantasy, The Last Suitor will have you cheering for Nicholas Raspero, the wand-fighting hero, and wishing that you too could transport to the world of New Landern, where everyone who has a wand is not afraid to use it in a duel to maintain one's honour.

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