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  Highway Thirteen - Stories

  Fiona McFarlane

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  A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane’s newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer’s childhood town to Texas, Rome, and tropical northern Australia, McFarlane presents an oblique, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost. What damages, big and small, do these crimes incur? How do communities make sense of such atrocities? How does the mourning of families sit alongside the public fascination with terrible crimes? And can we tell true crime stories without centering the killers? From the acclaimed author of The Sun Walks Down and The High Places comes a captivating account of loss and its extended echoes in individual lives.

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  A Thing of Blood

  Robert Gott

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  Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private detective William Power returns to Melbourne in this wry sequel that re-creates the tension and fear of wartime Australia. 
  Bloodied and broken but somehow unbowed, he arrives in a town struggling under war-rationing and full of cocky American soldiers and lands squarely in the bosom of his childhood home in Carlton, now dominated by his sister-in-law, the odious Darlene. But even Will’s contempt is tempered when, in the early hours of the morning, Darlene is kidnapped and Will finds his mother’s kitchen splattered with blood and scattered with broken crockery.  
  Soon, murder and the fate of the nation are added to the mix, and Will realizes that he is the only one who can solve the case.

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  Older

  M.H. Vickers

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  A sociopath managing an aged care facility: What could go wrong? 
   
  Precocious and pretty Maxine Gilbert is a clever and talented nine-year-old, adored by a doting father. She is also cruel, sadistic and without remorse, delighting in manipulating others and torturing small animals. When her mother is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, Maxine is disgusted, not just by her mother’s disability, but by the inconvenience it brings. Watching a nurse care for her mother, Maxine learns that nurses can hurt or heal. Maxine decides to be a nurse when she grows up. 
   
  Forty years on, after countless complaints against her nursing in various clinical care settings, Maxine scams a job as Managing Director of an aged care facility, Treetops, and the residents are in for a rough time. 
   
  Under Maxine’s management, physical and medical restraint of residents is encouraged, and neglect, poor hygiene, and restrictions of residents’ liberty, nourishment and medical support are exhorted. Frightened, depressed, and malnourished residents are left isolated, locked away, and laying in their own waste. They develop excruciating infections, suffer illness, and even die. Maxine faces rising antagonism from Treetops’ residents, and their friends and family.  
   
  A new carer at Treetops, Seleena, who recently escaped an abusive marriage, cannot stay silent. Along with warning residents, and others, Seleena writes a letter of complaint. After finding a suspicious lump in her breast, could Maxine, who always hated illness and vulnerability in others, finally learn compassion? Or will she continue her ruthless ways?

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  The Amazon Conspiracy

  SJ Philips

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   “a delicious mix of mystery, action, and intrigue that you just don't want to put down. Author S.J. Philips takes you on a wild rollercoaster of a ride through the dense forests of the Amazon” – Readers' Favorite 
  “An often diverting story that takes readers on a survival adventure” – Kirkus Reviews 
  A grave mistake has caused Henry to lose his career as a promising scientist dedicated to studying the Amazon rain forest. Yet he's landed an assistant job at a remote research station that lets him continue there in relative peace. That is, until he's assigned to lead a documentary film crew to an abandoned mine, presumably long lost to the jungle. Upon their arrival, Henry makes an unfortunate discovery. Although the crew is detained by armed soldiers, Henry narrowly escapes with Clare Andersen, an adventurous Australian TV host. But when they make it out of the jungle and into the nearest city, they learn they're wanted for murder. Running from both the police and vicious thugs, Henry and Clare set out in a race against time to prove their innocence and save the missing filmmakers, uncovering clues to a dangerous international conspiracy set in the heart of the Amazon rain forest.

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  Forging of Luke Stone Bundle...

  Jack Mars

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  A bundle of books #1 (PRIMARY TARGET), #2 (PRIMARY COMMAND) and #3 (PRIMARY THREAT) in Jack Mars’s Forging of Luke Stone Thriller series. This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 200,000 words of reading.In PRIMARY TARGET (Book #1), we see the forging of one of the world’s toughest—and most lethal—soldiers: Luke Stone. A 29 year old veteran who has seen enough battle to last a lifetime, Luke is tapped by the Special Response Team, a secretive new FBI agency (led by his mentor Don Morris) to tackle the most high-stake terrorism operations in the world. Luke, still haunted by his wartime past and newly married to an expecting Becca, is dispatched on a mission to Iraq, with his new partner Ed Newsam, to bring in a rogue American contractor. But what begins as a routine mission mushrooms into something much, much bigger. When the President’s teenage daughter, kidnapped in Europe, is ransomed by terrorists, Luke may be the only one in the world who can save her before it is too late.In PRIMARY COMMAND (Book #2), elite Delta Force veteran Luke Stone, leads the FBI’s Special Response Team on a nail-biting mission to save American hostages from a nuclear submarine. But when all goes wrong, and when the President shocks the world with his reaction, it may fall on Luke’s shoulders to save not only the hostages—but the world.In PRIMARY THREAT (Book #3) elite Delta Force veteran Luke Stone leads the FBI’s Special Response Team as they respond to a hostage situation on an oil rig in the remote Arctic. Yet what at first seems like a simple terrorist event may, it turns out, be much more. With a Russian master plan unfolding rapidly in the Arctic, Luke may have arrived at the precipice of the next world war. And Luke Stone may just be the only man standing in its way.THE FORGING OF LUKE STONE is an un-putdownable military thriller series, a wild action ride that will leave you turning pages late into the night. It marks the long-anticipated debut of a riveting new series by #1 bestseller Jack Mars, dubbed “one of the best thriller authors” out there.

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  Cat's Paw Inc

  L.L. Thrasher

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  "That's me, Arrow Investigations. I wanted to change the name to Cat's Paw, Inc., but my sister said no one would get it. It's from an old fable about a cat sleeping by a fire where a monkey was roasting some chestnuts. When the nuts were done, the monkey used the cat's paw to pull them out of the fire so he wouldn't burn his own fingers. People hire me, Zack Smith, to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. This time I have to track down a fourteenyearold runaway, Jessica. Her trail leads to the streets of Portland, where pimps, drug dealers, and pornographers offer runaways an illusory security in exchange for their innocenceand sometimes their lives...."

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