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Arthur W. Upfield (1998) Murder Down Under. This is one of Upfield's best murder mysteries. His protégée, Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte investigates a murder while on vacation in the wheat town of Burracoppin of Western Australia. In the fascinating scenery of the Australian Outback quirky characters will drag you into a complex puzzle.
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Arthur W. Upfield (1998) The Bachelors of Broken Hill. Set in a remote mining town, Upfield's murder mystery brings to life a long-ago forgotten world.
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Arthur W. Upfield (1998) The Bone is Pointed. This novel is from a different time (the mid-1950s) and an entirely different place (a remote town in Australia's ranch country). Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates in a world defined by social and cultural tensions between white ranchers and aborigines.
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Arthur W. Upfield (1998) The Mystery of the Swordfish Reef. Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte goes undercover in an Australian fishing village to investigate a murder that occurred at sea. This is a murder mystery for those who are fond of deep sea fishing.
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Peter Temple (2007) The Broken Shore: A Novel. Joe Cashin, a city homicide cop, investigates the killing of an elderly millionaire in a quiet coastal region of South Australia. The search takes him to the underworld of child pornography and sexual abuse. Temple's vivid characters amidst a magical landscape are stunning. A sophisticated thriller!
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Kerry Greenwood (2006) Murder on the Ballarat Train. In the third book of the Phryne Fisher mystery series, the heroine investigates the murder of an elderly woman in a train and rescues a young girl who has lost her memory. Funny.
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Kerry Greenwood (2007) Cocaine Blues. Pyryne Fisher, a 1920s female sleuth investigates a poisoning incident and the Melbourne drug trade.
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Peter Lalor (2005) Blood Stain. Kathy Knight, grandmother and slaughter house worker in Aberdeen, Australia sliced her partner John Price into pieces and cooked him for a meal. Peter Lalor covered the Knight case for the Daily Telegraph, a top newspaper in Australia. His book is one of the most gruesome true crime stories and not for the faint of heart.
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Claire McNab (2005) The Kookaburra Gambit: A Kylie Kendall Mystery. Australian McNab, now living in California, is a prolific crime fiction writer. Her Kylie Kendall mystery series features brash private investigator Kylie, who newly moved from Down Under to L.A. In the Kookaburra Gambit exquisite Australian black opals are smuggled to America. To see Kylie adjust to her new world and solve the case is deadly funny.
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Arthur W. Upfield (1964) The Will of the Tribe. An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) mystery that gives a glimpse into the lost world of aboriginal culture.
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