An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found, until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot. But by whom, and...

A terrible drought has settled on Thornton Creek and has parched both the land and the strength of all who live there. After a devastating fire eats up most of Douloo and leaves them with barely enough to survive, Daniel and Rebecca Thornton are forced to go to extremes to provide for their growing family. With fear and uncertainty weighing heavy on his heart, Daniel makes an ill-advised investment with a shady businessman from Brisbane. But at what...

When a group of mothers takes the competition for private schooling too far, the consequences are deadly, in this twisting tale of secrets and betrayal.

Seven-year-old Che, raised in privilege by his New York grandmother, is kidnapped in 1972 by Dial, a young Vassar professor who has agreed to bring the boy to his parents--former student radicals who are wanted by the FBI, and while Dial finds her task much more complicated than she had imagined it would be, Che looks at the time on the run and in a seedy Australian commune, as a grand adventure and chance to bond with Dial who he has come to regard...

"Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement--the war, those treacherous winter seas, her family, her fiance...but she can't help herself....

"Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear--and where others vanish into thin air... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators--disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn't have...

"How do you move on when the world won't let you? 12:46: Claire Bingleystands alone at a bus stop. 12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her. 12:52: The girl is missing . . . Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time-that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man-and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile...

After her plane crashes in a remote rainforest, Georgia Parish struggles to find her way back to Queensland, Australia, so she can uncover the truth about the crash and find the person who sabotaged it.

After his father's accidental death, William goes to live on the Australian estate of his great-uncle John McIvor, who tries to enlist William in his obsession of preventing his land from being repossessed by the Aboriginal natives.