Australian & New Zealand crime/mystery/espionage authors free and bargain

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ABC21 (Aus Broadcasting Corp) has a program on iview that may interest readers of this thread:

Ngaio Marsh Crime Queen (Documentary)

This is the link to the ABC iview home page

The program expires in 13 days.

You may be interested to know that the ABC is a public broadcaster and does not show advertisements.

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[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Strange Bodies by Antonia Marlowe
(-A australian writer, might be worth checking on the Australian site)

'Tortured, and brutally murdered, the bodies of the Richardsons hang from a tree deep in the forests of the Blue Mountains

Australia in 2067, an oasis in a world which has barely survived climate change, terrorism and food wars. The Richardsons’ deaths are just two of several brutal murders to be unearthed. With local police stymied, former Scotland Yard Commander, Nicholas Adams and his team, are called in. But even with the extensive surveillance of central computer BigSys and the pervasive eyes of cameras that cover so much of the country, it takes the skills of the attractive Verity Burne – computer wizard and freelance feature writer – to uncover the links between the homicides that lead to the discovery of past injustices and a thirst for bloody vengeance. '

UK link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/STRANGE-BODI...40925&sr=1-288

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Thank you for this find Mort

Free at Amazon Aus

[Froide]

Thank you. It's also free at Amazon US.

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Kobo Aus has Tony Parsons'

Back to the Pilliga
$3.80 and discountable (there are a few in the Kobo Discounts thread)

It was always expected that Lachie Sinclair and his brothers would one day take over the family property, Kamilaroi. But when tragedy strikes, Lachlan blames his father and angrily renounces any future for him at Kamilaroi.

Moving to the city, Lachie joins the police force and quickly rises through the ranks. But after being injured in a gunfight he decides to go out on his own as a private investigator.

When a wealthy society woman asks Lachie to lead the search for her missing daughter, he reluctantly agrees. Early indications are that the woman's captors are hiding her in the Pilliga region, meaning Lachie must return to his roots in order to try and save her life ...

This rollicking new bush yarn from the bestselling author of Valley of the White Gold and Silver in the Sun will keep Tony Parsons' fans turning the pages well into the night.

Praise for Tony Parsons: 'A heart-warming saga of family tribulations, and an intensely powerful and moving story with a true-blue Australian flavour ...' Country News

[Mort1997]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...19#post2738619


Peter Corris - Torn Apart is free today on Amazon (see above for links)

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Thanks Mort

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon - Fingerprint Thief by Carolyn Beasley
Carolyn Beasley is an award-winning fiction writer. Her short story collection 'The Memory of Marble' is published by Lighthouse books. She has a Ph.D. in writing and teaches in creative writing at Swinburne University, Australia.
SARAH ARDEN is a forensic technician with a special talent and a medical abnormality. She can profile a person’s passions from a fingerprint, yet due to disease has no classifiable fingerprints of her own.
On a cold winter night, Sarah is called to Melbourne’s Williamstown Beach where a young woman has been murdered. When Sarah attempts to print the girl, she notices that the fingerprints have been removed. Sarah not only identifies the girl but discovers that beneath the facade of the young woman’s life as an environmental activist and anthropology student lies a web of ritual, secret protest groups, and a fractured family determined to destroy each other at any cost.
In a city of transition, where progress takes precedent over history, rivers mysteriously flow backwards and forgotten citizens turn to the superstitions of the past, Sarah discovers she is facing an evil that has broken the most sacred law of nature.


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fingerprint-...eywords=sniper

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Fingerprint...eywords=sniper

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Thanks again Mort

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free today on Amazon - Fingerprint Thief by Carolyn Beasley
Carolyn Beasley is an award-winning fiction writer. Her short story collection 'The Memory of Marble' is published by Lighthouse books. She has a Ph.D. in writing and teaches in creative writing at Swinburne University, Australia.
SARAH ARDEN is a forensic technician with a special talent and a medical abnormality. She can profile a person’s passions from a fingerprint, yet due to disease has no classifiable fingerprints of her own.
On a cold winter night, Sarah is called to Melbourne’s Williamstown Beach where a young woman has been murdered. When Sarah attempts to print the girl, she notices that the fingerprints have been removed. Sarah not only identifies the girl but discovers that beneath the facade of the young woman’s life as an environmental activist and anthropology student lies a web of ritual, secret protest groups, and a fractured family determined to destroy each other at any cost.
In a city of transition, where progress takes precedent over history, rivers mysteriously flow backwards and forgotten citizens turn to the superstitions of the past, Sarah discovers she is facing an evil that has broken the most sacred law of nature.


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fingerprint-...eywords=sniper

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Fingerprint...eywords=sniper

@A_Us also
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HIRCWMW/

[pietvo]

Originally Posted by gabby98

@A_Us also
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HIRCWMW/

Didn't work for me, but this one did: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerprint-Th.../dp/B00HIRCWMW

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Amazon Aus Deal of the Day, Andrew Croome's

Document Z
$2.49

Evdokia knew that the crowd was here for her. Hunting her. From the back seat of the Cadillac, she peered into their faces beyond the glass. Angry looks. Perplexed and desolate. Some were already shouting, trying the handles on the doors. There were Russian voices. English voices. Several times the sound of her name.She was certain these people would kill her before they'd let her through the terminal and onto the plane. Beside her, Zharkov thrust the door open and Evdokia stepped out following, thinking she must be mad. Just close your eyes, she thought. Keep your feet marching like the Pioneer Youth. Guns under the jackets of her escorts. This might be it, she realised. A chaos building, a climbing potential. Defector's Wife Dies in Airport Shootout.

Canberra, 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Into an atmosphere of paranoia, rumour and suspicion, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov are among a group of new arrivals at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra. Both are party loyalists, working for the MVD, Moscow intelligence. Yet all is not well in the new city of Canberra. The atmosphere in the Embassy is tense and suspicious; the Ambassador resents their presence, and is secretly working to have Vladimir disgraced and recalled. In the meantime, ASIO are determined to discover who in this new group works for the MVD. Only three short years later, Vladimir has defected and his wife Evdokia is held prisoner at the Soviet Embassy, waiting to be transported back to Russia to face punishment or death for his crime. How did it come to this?

A tightly told story of secrets, lies, deception and betrayal - both personal and political - Document Z, the winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, is a taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue which brings our recent history vividly and immediately to life.

For a Deal of the Day the price of this book isn't consistent with Amazon's most often priced Deals 0.99.

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Amazon Aus Deal of the Day, Andrew McGahan's

Last Drinks
$2.09

Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.

It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player in the great scandals of his day, the Inquiry has never quite finished. After ten years of self-imposed exile, drawn by the terrible death of a man who was his friend, he reluctantly returns to Brisbane, the city of his downfall. In a town he no longer recognises and through an underworld that has forgotten him, George must seek out the other hidden survivors of his times, to confront the truth about their common past.

'Last Drinks, fast moving, funny and shocking, is a lament for all that can go wrong not only in the life of one man, but in the life of an entire state.

This is crime fiction that transcends the genre . . . It's a truly compelling and stylish novel, seamlessly written.' - Debra Adelaide, Sydney Morning Herald

[BelleZora]

The Bone Orchard (The Gin Palace Trilogy #2) by Daniel Judson was free back in March, but if you missed it then you can pick it up today. It was first published by Bantam in 2002 and was a Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (2003) and Shamus Award Nominee for Best First PI Novel (2003).

Amazon AU