**PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS And Then There Were 9: The Agatha Christie Book Club 4**At a remote mountain lodge, deep in isolated rainforest, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB gathers to meet four new members, each one hiding a secret of their own...One is an imposter. One is hunting for something. One has been there before. And one wants long-awaited revenge.Now with nine members, the book club settles in to discuss their latest mystery, but very soon life begins to imitate fiction as a madman starts bumping off the isolated guests. First one person is murdered, then another, and then a mighty bushfire ignites in the forest below, cutting the group off entirely.Employing their own sleuthing skills and a bushfire survival plan, they must unravel each new member's secret to unmask the real killer and survive the book club from hell.BUT THIS TIME NOT ALL OF THEM WILL GET OUT ALIVE.A fast-paced adventure with lots of twists and turns, for...

It was supposed to a frivolous night out. The champagne was flowing, the rugs were arranged, and the Agatha Christie Book Club had settled in to watch their favourite mystery Evil Under the Sun on the moonlit screen above.Yet it all comes to a crashing halt when a woman's lifeless body is discovered lying between the jumble of picnic baskets and blankets. She has been strangled and discarded like an empty champagne bottle.How did no one see the killer lurking?How did no one hear the victim's cries?And how could the Agatha Christie Book Club have been lounging just metres away and missed the whole event?!In their latest and most complex puzzle yet, the book club friends unite to solve the unlikeliest of crimes, one that takes place in a public park, with scores of witnesses and not a single motive or suspect in sight.When the local detectives fail to progress the case, the book club friends do what they do best, channelling their...

NEW SERIES: Five strangers compete to solve an Impossible Mystery. There're millions at stake and two weeks to do it.Police say the case is open-and-shut. The heir to a massive fortune, Heath Burlington, slaughters his parents, calls and confesses to the crimes, then turns the gun on himself. Heath's grandfather says, "Not so fast." With the case now closed, the wealthy mogul assembles his own crack team of detectives—five amateur sleuths with a nose for mystery and a need to prove themselves—then pits them against each other to solve it.THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: "Prove Heath's innocence and you get $1 million each. The sleuth who makes the biggest breakthrough scores a bonus million. The sleuth who does the least gets nothing." They have just two weeks.INTRODUCING: THE SLEUTHS OF LAST RESORTCluedo champ Merry (she can read a crime scene like no other);Reckless PI Kila (his rule-breaking is just what this case...

Four couples set sail on a luxury honeymoon cruise. Only two will survive. Luckily, one of the newlyweds happens to be a member of a very nosey book club...It's supposed to be Claire Hargreaves' idyllic honeymoon, exploring the remote Great Barrier Reef with three other couples and six crew, cocooned on a superyacht owned by her new husband Simon. But then a passenger is found floating lifeless above the coral and suddenly romance plays second fiddle to murder.The killer has to be one of the group, and Claire couldn't be more exhilarated (just don't tell Simon!). He's so worried he quickly winches in Detective Liam Jackson to investigate, followed soon after by the book club, masquerading as newlyweds.In this gripping, closed-circle thriller, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB are back on the high seas, but this time there's ten secretive suspects to choose from, a stalled engine that may or may not have been sabotaged, and nothing but their sleuthing...

When a guest goes missing at an isolated Gothic mansion, bang in the middle of a glamorous birthday party, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB abandon their champagne flutes and start searching.What begins as a fun game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into a horror show as first one body, then another shows up, but NOT the missing man. He's the beloved nephew of book club member Ronnie Westera, and she's adamant he's a victim, but the police think otherwise.As their attention turns to the missing man's twin brother, the book club look elsewhere for answers, like Ronnie's disgruntled in-laws, her gossipy BFF, a secretive CEO and — gasp! — Ronnie herself (because even their resident socialite is hiding something behind her chiffon and pearls).In their latest closed-circle thriller at a Knives Out-style manor, our crime fiction aficionados can't help seeing similarities between this whodunnit and two modern murder mysteries...

Twenty-something party girl Maisie May really shouldn't be dead. There's a pool party going on and she's missing all the fun. As she hovers overhead watching her loved ones blissfully splash about, Maisie begins to wonder: who hated her just enough to put a gun to her head and pull the trigger? And why would they do it in the middle of her own party?Can you help Maisie work out whodunnit before the creepy dead people lurking near the tunnel convince her to cross?The follow-up to the Amazon best-selling posthumous mystery Do Not Gentle, this is a stand-alone mystery (no need to read the first in the series) and contains some adult language and Australian colloquialisms.

In her fifth and most heartwrenching mystery yet, Ghostwriter Roxy Parker is hot on the trail of her estranged boyfriend Max. He's disappeared from a Swiss alpine resort and his flatmate has shown up murdered in Berlin, bludgeoned by his 1920's Gibson guitar. The German police suspect Max of murder but Roxy knows better. He's just sent her a cryptic text message, which proves his life is on the line!At the behest of his family, Roxy packs her bags and heads to the Continent, Max's self-absorbed sister Caroline by her side. Together, they must follow a series of tantalising clues that take them from the heights of Mt Pilatus to the craggy shoreline of the Italian Riviera where the perky blonde has just shown up dead, floating in the azure Mediterranean Sea. But where is Max? Why is everyone around him being killed? And can Roxy solve the mystery of his disappearance before he vanishes for good?In the latest Ghostwriter Mystery, author C.A. Larmer proves yet again...

"So there's been a murder. My murder, in fact, but please don't waste time feeling sorry for me. Your tears and platitudes are of no use to me now. I need your help to solve this thing, and I need it fast... Help me work out whodunit before that bloody light extinguishes all hope of ever knowing."With her dead Grandma beckoning furiously from the tunnel, Ludovica Gold is desperate to solve the mystery of her murder before she heads off into eternity. Not because she's especially curious, but because the last thing she saw as her head hit the ground was her son's black Converse sneakers.Did her beloved boy really murder her? Was it over something as fickle as birthday cake? Or is there something deeper, and more poignant going on? In this heart-wrenching story of one woman's quest to uncover the truth, the reader is invited along to help solve whodunnit and maybe save Ludovica's boy along the way. Will the truth set her free or destroy everything she ever knew about herself and her...