Murder by the Book

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ROWE, JENNIFER

Mystery

Allen & Unwin Australia Pty. Ltd.

INTRODUCING SENIOR DETECTIVE TESSA VANCE When a young barker at a seaside amusement park is found dead with a steak knife plunged into his gut, Senior Detective Tessa Vance is called to investigate. Assigned to an unfamiliar Homicide division and having to win the trust of a new partner, Tessa soon discovers a grisly trail of bodies with nothing in common except for a series of gruesome clues left behind by a ruthlessly clever killer. Tessa knows the deaths form a hideous pattern. But once she and her partner decipher its shocking secret, they find themselves in a race against time--fast approaching a deadline set by a cunning, murderous mind. . . .

Suspect

Ballantine Books

On the rambling country manse of Haven, Senior Detective Tessa Vance hopes to find a little piece of heaven. But instead she finds herself immersed in hell. A famous pop star lies dead in a toolshed, presumably from a suicide. The three angelic sisters who occupy the secluded estate cannot recall the details from the night he died. But they appear to be hiding something. Did they commit cold-blooded murder? Or is the killer one of the bizarre characters who surround these ethereal beauties? With her partner Steve Hayden, Tessa is dragged into a homicide full of unusual, unseemly details--with terrifying consequences. The dark secrets of Haven must be exposed for Tessa to save this quiet mountain town . . . and herself.

Something Wicked

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Television researcher and amateur sleuth Verity "Birdie" Birdwood investigates a murder in the pampered luxury of a world-famous spa, where every whim of the privileged clientele is promptly indulged

Makeover Murders, The

Classics

DOUBLEDAY

Verity Birdwood, researcher-turned-sleuth, investigates a case of holiday murder at Fredericks, a grand department store that celebrates in the grandest fashion.

Death in Store

Grim Pickings

Auntie Alice’s apple-picking event had taken on a decidedly sour note. Kate and her husband, Jeremy, generally enjoyed the Tenders’ annual event. But this season something was gnawing away under the rosy surface like bitter rot. Aunt Alice, the dear old girl, was really getting on—so forgetful. Had she really sprayed the trees with pesticides just before picking? And Betsy, her niece, so artfully coiffed, yet more desperately manipulative than ever. It was obvious that she was itching to get her hands on this place. Odd, too, were Wilf, Betsy’s strangely detached husband; Sue, their mousy daughter-in-law; and gorgeous daughter Anna, home since the scandalous breakup of her marriage. This year you couldn’t even eat the apples off the trees—with the spray and all. But Anna’s estranged husband obviously missed the warning. After popping in for an unexpected visit, he was found sprawled in the orchard with four discarded apple cores next to his lifeless body—poisoned like some noxious pest. Any way you slice it, there’s a rotten apple in Aunt Alice’s orchard. And suddenly, the pick of the harvest could be a very clever killer.

GRIM PICKINGS

Genre Fiction

Crimeline

It was the publishing event of the season . . . until someone added murder to the menu. When Quentin Hale, the ruthless new takeover boss of one of Australia’s oldest publishing houses, launched a glittering round of parties, interviews, and book signings to promote his top four authors, he unwittingly whipped up a recipe for disaster. His jolly author of popular gardening books was actually a notorious lush. His successful authoress of muckraking biographies was a malicious troublemaker. And his queen of children’s books had once shared a disastrous love affair with his number-one novelist, a man teetering on the brink of yet another nervous breakdown. The disgruntled staff could have warned Hale that the promotion was a deadly mistake, if he’d asked. But even they couldn’t have known just how deadly . . . until one famed author downed a fatal drink and a second soon went missing. Now it looks as if someone in this literary crew has been plotting murder all along. Can editor Kate Delaney and her friend Birdie catch the killer before he writes off his next victim?

Margot Bell, co-owner of the elite Deepdene health spa, is found dead and television researcher Verity Birdwood starts digging beneath the trappings of pampered luxury. By the author of Grim Pickings. Reprint.

After seventy-year-old radio star Max Tully announces his engagement to his young, seductive housekeeper, Mai Tran, Verity Birdwood is called in to investigate nasty threats against the enigmatic beauty, threats that lead to murder. Original.

Stranglehold

BANTAM BOOKS

His was a homecoming watched round the world—but was he an innocent victim or a coldhearted killer?   After serving five years for the murder of his wife, Trevor Lamb was a free man . . . thanks to idealistic lawyer Jude Dilanchion, whose bestselling book, Lamb to the Slaughter, cast doubt on Trevor’s guilt. It was just like Jude, thought Verity Birdwood, to fight for the wrongly imprisoned, even when Jude himself would be the first to say Trevor Lamb was a manipulative bastard.   So now the prodigal son was returning home to the bosom of his family, with Jude in tow. And Birdie, on assignment for ABC-TV, is joining them to get the first interview with the newly released prisoner. But soon after their arrival in Hope’s End, another murder takes place . . . leaving Birdie to scrabble for the truth among the lowlife Lambs and a town steeped in bloody secrets.

Lamb to the Slaughter

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Murder by the Book

Suspect

Something Wicked

Makeover Murders, The

Death in Store

GRIM PICKINGS

Murder by the Book

Makeover Murders, The

Stranglehold

Lamb to the Slaughter