Books like Bitter Wash Road
Constable Paul Hirschhausen, a whistleblower exiled to a one-man police station in the South Australian wheat country, is sent out to a report of gunshots on Bitter Wash Road, and soon after a girl is found dead by the highway.
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The Dry
Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.
A Place of Execution
In December 1963 thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from Scardale, a closed-off Derbyshire village, and the young Inspector George Bennett takes on the case. Decades later a journalist writing a book about it asks him to tell the story.
The Puppet Show
A killer is burning men alive in the stone circles of Cumbria, and Detective Sergeant Washington Poe, suspended and sulking, is called back when his own name turns up carved into one of the bodies.
Raven Black
On New Year's Eve in Shetland two teenage girls knock on the door of Magnus Tait, an old loner long suspected over a girl who vanished years ago. Days later one of them is found strangled in the snow, and Inspector Jimmy Perez takes the case.
The Crow Trap
Rachael Lambert arrives at a remote cottage in the North Pennines to lead an environmental survey and finds her friend Bella, the farmer next door, dead in her barn. Two more women join the survey, and Inspector Vera Stanhope comes to ask questions.
Ratking
Aurelio Zen, a Rome police official parked in a dead-end job, is sent to Perugia to take over the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful industrialist whose family seems in no hurry to get him back.
The Lost Man
Two brothers meet at the stockman's grave, a lonely landmark on the line between their cattle stations in outback Queensland, where their middle brother, Cameron, has been found dead.
The Broken Shore
Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective recovering from injuries, takes a posting back in his home town on the south-west coast of Victoria, and a rich old man is bashed in his home.
Truth
Stephen Villani, head of Melbourne's homicide squad, has a dead young woman in a luxury apartment, a family coming apart and bushfires closing in on the city.
Faceless Killers
In the first Wallander novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Sweden, and a dying word sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
Jar City
An old man is found battered to death in his basement flat in Reykjavík, with a note on the body that reads 'I am him', and Inspector Erlendur, finding no motive, starts digging into the dead man's past.
Resurrection Men
John Rebus, sent back to police college after throwing a mug of tea at his boss, joins a team of washed-up detectives, and is secretly told to spy on them.