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

[murg]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

But, ..... ummmm .... Karin isn't an Aus author.

By the official rules, if she has even been in Australia, she's considered an Australian...

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by murg

By the official rules, if she has even been in Australia, she's considered an Australian...

gotta love Google!

http://www.karinslaughter.com/australia/

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by murg

By the official rules, if she has even been in Australia, she's considered an Australian...

Originally Posted by mitford13

gotta love Google!

http://www.karinslaughter.com/australia/

Oh well then in that case ......

[murg]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Oh well then in that case ......

As further proved by: The Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John, Russell Crowe, Neil and Tim Finn, and pretty much anyone from New Zealand...

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Amazon Aus:

The Celtic Dagger (A Fitzjohn Mystery Book 1)
Jill Paterson

blurb:

University professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study by the Post Graduate Co-coordinator, Vera Trenbath, a nosey interfering busybody. Assigned to the case is Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn. Fitzjohn is a detective from the old guard, whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic. His relentless pursuit for the killer zeros in on

Alex’s brother, James, as a key suspect in his investigation.
Compelled to clear himself of suspicion, James starts his own investigation and finds himself immersed in a web of intrigue, ultimately uncovering long hidden secrets about his brother’s life that could easily be the very reasons he was murdered.

This gripping tale of murder and suspense winds its way through the university’s hallowed halls to emerge into the beautiful, yet unpredictable, Blue Mountain region where more challenges and obstacles await James in his quest to clear himself of suspicion and uncover the truth about his brother.

Free Amazon UK
Free Amazon CA
Free Amazon US

Can't find the author/book on Kobo Aus
* This author's background (per Goodreads) will tickle Murg's fancy

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day:

How I Became the Mr. Big of People Smuggling
Martin Chambers
$1.19

blurb:

Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there’s a lot of grey between black and white, between legal and illegal and between right and wrong.

Kobo Aus $6.99

This book is listed as a mystery .....

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day

Prime Cut
Alan Carter
$2.19

blurb:

Shortlisted for a 2010 UK Debut Dagger Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Best First Fiction Award, Prime Cut is what crime reviewer Graeme Blundell calls a classily written story with ‘mordant wit and a fine sense of place’. Meet Cato Kwong — disgraced cop and ex-poster boy for the police force. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Cato is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. But Cato faces powerful opposition when his investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturbs an even darker criminal mind.

More praise for Prime Cut: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new entrant into the higher echelons of Australian crime fiction writing.’ — Sun Herald

‘Alan Carter takes us into the dark underside of the mining boom in an atmospheric and sharply written thriller.’ — The Saturday Age
‘ … an excellent read – let’s hope we get to see more of Carter’s hero, DSC Cato Kwong.’ — West Australian
‘ … it’s a confident, witty, entertaining and gritty tale with an interesting, multicultural cast.’ — Sunday Times

Amazon UK £0.81
Amazon US $1.93
Amazon CA not on special

Can't find author/book on Kobo Aus

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus has Alan Carter's second book in the series:

Getting Warmer (Cato Kwong 2)
$1.59

blurb:

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case – the unsolved mystery of a missing fifteen-year-old girl. But it’s midsummer in the city of millionaires and it’s not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave and a body, with its throat cut, turns up in the local nightclub. As a series of blunders by Cato’s colleague brings the squad under intense scrutiny, Cato’s own sympathy for a suspect threatens to derail his case and his career.

Amazon UK £0.81
Amazon US $1.40
Amazon CA $2.99

Can't find author/book on Kobo Aus

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day

Prime Cut
Alan Carter
$2.19

blurb:


Amazon UK £0.81
Amazon US $1.93
Amazon CA not on special
Can't find author/book on Kobo Aus

This (and bk 2) look interesting -just added to my TBR pile

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day

Dunbar Case (Cliff Hardy No 38)
Peter Corris
$1.89

blurb:

Private Investigator Cliff Hardy's 39th case sees him leaving the mean streets of Sydney for Newcastle, investigating what a famous 19th century shipwreck has to do with a multi-million dollar heist with a cast of characters that shouldn't be trusted.

This wasn't Hardy's usual brief--uncover the mysteries of a nineteenth-century shipwreck--but he could do with an easy case and the retainer was generous.

But is it ever that simple? Not with a notorious crime family tearing itself apart, and an undercover cop playing both sides against the middle. These and an alluring but fiercely ambitious female journalist give Hardy all the trouble he can handle.

'Ever feel manipulated?' Hardy asks. The body count mounts up as he pushes closer to the truth about the mystery and the loot.

Kobo Aus $13.19

PS My library has the ebook format, so your library may too.

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day: (sort of fits this thread, lol )

The Burial (aka The Untold depending on publisher)
Courtney Collins
$2.19

blurb:

A breathtakingly brilliant debut novel in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy - inspired by Australia's last bushranger, young woman Jessie Hickman.

It is the dawn of the twentieth century in Australia and a woman has done an unspeakable thing.

Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. Fitz wastes no time in blackmailing Jessie and involving her in his business of horse rustling and cattle duffing.

When Fitz is wounded in an accident he hires Aboriginal stockman, Jack Brown, to steal horses with Jessie. Soon both Jack Brown and Jessie are struggling against the oppressive and deadening grip of Fitz.

One catastrophic night turns Jessie's life on its head and she must flee for her life. From her lonely outpost, the mountains beckon as a place to escape. First she must bury the evidence. But how do you bury the evidence when the evidence is part of yourself?

Inspired by the life of Jessie Hickman, legendary twentieth-century bushranger, The Burial is a stunning debut novel, a work of haunting originality and power.

Kobo Aus: $18

My library's got the ebook format, so your library may too.

[Lynx-lynx]

Okay, so let's get some discount info happening in this thread!!

Using the Kobo 'Refer' promo (see the Discounts thread) here are the Aus authors that I've found to be discountable in the NZ Kobo store. Note, some of these authors may also be discountable in the Aus Kobo store (maybe?).

All of these authors/series are selling at less than NZ$2 per ebook. GO FOR IT!!

Sulari Gentill - Rowland Sinclair series
First in series blurb:

Spoiler:

A Few Right Thinking Men: The first book of the acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries. In Australia’s 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal.
Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world... of wealth, culture & impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions & friends... a poet, a painter & a brazen sculptress.
Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics... until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary & treasonous conspiracy.

Robert Gott - William Powell series and Inspector Lambert series
First in series blurb:

Spoiler:

Good Murder (Powell series): It’s 1942, and war is raging in Europe and in the Pacific. The Japanese army is on Australia’s doorstep, and the small coastal Queensland town of Maryborough is on full war footing.
What they are not prepared for is the arrival in the town of a troupe of incompetent actors whose unjustifiably self-confident leader, William Power, is determined to bring his daring production of Titus Andronicus to the barbarians of rural Australia.
Unfortunately for the Power Players, the only gift William Power has is a capacity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a young woman goes missing and is found floating dead in the town’s water supply, Power becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
With every misplaced step he takes, he becomes more and more embroiled in a series of crimes which baffle the police and horrify the locals. Having no confidence in the constabulary, Power decides that his only option is to solve the crimes himself. His acting skills are not good; his detection skills are worse.
As he stumbles towards a solution and as his injuries mount up, he never wavers in his belief that he alone can bring the killer to justice. But, with every day that passes, he tightens the noose around his own neck until, on the night of a violent storm, everything changes. And not for the better.

The Holiday Murders: On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide’s Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.

If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence. For Constable Helen Lord, it is an opportunity to make her mark in a male-dominated world where she is patronised as a novelty. For Detective Joe Sable, the investigation forces a reassessment of his indifference to his Jewish heritage. Racing against the clock, the police uncover simmering tensions among secretive local Nazi sympathisers as a psychopathic fascist usurper makes his move.

The Holiday Murders explores a little-known and sometimes violent corner of Australian history, and finds oddly modern echoes in its paranoia, xenophobia, and ugly fervour.

Peter Twohig - The Kid series
first in series blurb:

Spoiler:

The Cartographer: An amazingly bold, inventive and enchanting debut. Set in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house.
In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinthine city trying to make sure he doesn't cross the path of the murderer, who he believes wishes to silence and dispose of him.
Comics and superheroes inform his strategies for avoiding the bogeyman, and remembering his twin brother, tom, who recently died in a tragic accident.

Adrian D'Hage - individual books
blurb:

Spoiler:

The Omega Scroll - A Dead Sea Scroll has lain undisturbed in a cave near Qumran for nearly two thousand years. The Omega Scroll contains both a terrible warning for civilisation and the coded number the Vatican fears the most.
The Pope's health is failing and the Cardinal Secretary of State, the ruthless Lorenzo Petroni, has the keys to St Peter within his grasp. Three things threaten to destroy him: Cardinal Giovanni Donnelli has started an investigation into the Vatican bank; journalist Tom Schweiker is looking into Petroni's past; and the brilliant Dr Angela Bassetti is piecing together fragments of the Omega Scroll.
While they fight for their lives in a deadly race for the scroll, the Vatican will stop at nothing to keep the prophecy hidden.
At the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, Mike McKinnon suspects a number of missing nuclear suitcase bombs are connected to the warning in the Omega Scroll.
In the Judaen Desert a few more grains of sand trickle from the wall of a cave. The countdown for civilisation has begun

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Peter Temple - Jack Irish series
First in series blurb

Spoiler:

Bad Debts: Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. Bad Debts is the first Jack Irish Thriller by multi-award-winning author Peter Temple. Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish.
Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he's still cooking for one.
But then Danny turns up dead and Jack has to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.

Peter Corris - all his books?

Kerry Greenwood - all her books

Please post any authors you find.

[Lynx-lynx]

Continuing on .....

Geoffrey Mcgeachin - Charlie Berlin
First in series blurb:

Spoiler:

The Diggers Rest Hotel: In 1947, two years after witnessing the death of a young Jewish woman in Poland, Charlie Berlin has rejoined the police force a different man.
Sent to investigate a spate of robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers that World War II has changed even the most ordinary of places and people. An ex-bomber pilot and former POW, Berlin is struggling to fit back in: grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder, the ghosts of his dead crew and his futile attempts to numb the pain.
When Berlin travels to Albury-Wodonga to track down the gang behind the robberies, he suspects he's a problem cop being set up to fail. Taking a room at the Diggers Rest Hotel in Wodonga, he sets about solving a case that no one else can – with the help of feisty, ambitious journalist Rebecca Green and rookie constable Rob Roberts, the only cop in town he can trust.
Then the decapitated body of a young girl turns up in a back alley, and Berlin's investigations lead him ever further through layers of small-town fears, secrets and despair.
The first Charlie Berlin mystery takes us into a world of secret alliances and loyalties – and a society dealing with the effects of a war that changed men forever.

Stuart Littlemore - Harry Currie
First in series blurb:

Spoiler:

Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice: UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INTOLERANT. CLEVER. The brilliant first instalment in a compelling new series to rival Rumpole from well-known QC Stuart Littlemore. Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever.
From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new character, Harry Curry-scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say. When Harry's robust advocacy leads to his suspension for professional misconduct, he teams up reluctantly with Arabella Engineer, an English barrister of Indian descent, struggling for a foothold at the Sydney bar. together, they wreak havoc in criminal trials involving drug-dealing, terrorism, murder and more.
But can their professional relationship survive when personal matters intervene?
Is Harry truly fated to live and work alone? HARRY CURRY: COUNSEL OF CHOICE is an insightful-and always engaging-romp through a fascinating segment of society, and an exciting debut by a talented insider.

Shane Maloney: Murray Whelan
First book blurb:

Spoiler:

Stiff: True believer Murray Whelan makes his debut in Shane Maloney's first thriller set among the ethnic feuds, union machinations and sexual politics of his city's working class heartland.

The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller.

Enter Murray Whelan, minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister of Industry. Between playing off party factions and pursuing the kohl-eyed Ayisha, it's all in a day's work for Murray to hose down the situation at Pacific Pastoral. Then the lairy V8 turns up. And after that, it gets personal. Because don't you just hate it when somebody tries to kill you and you don't know who or why?

Bound to be plenty more ....