When Australia's most successful and least liked musician is found dead, it looks like an overdose. But his roadie is dead too, and there are a lot of suspects. First published in 1998 and featuring the country's most unlikely sleuth—ex-rock star Andrew 'The Lizard' Zirk—Murder in the Groove is the first in a three part series of whodunnits that read like a cross between Agatha Christie and Carl Hiaasen.Dave Warner is an award-winning author, screenwriter and musician. He won the Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction in 1996 for City of Light (1995), the Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Fiction in 2017 for Before it Breaks (2015) and is a member of the WA Rock and Roll of Renown (1992). In 2015, he was named a Western Australian State Living Treasure. For more information visit davewarner.com.au

In "Tale of the Broken Spoke," Skip Rhodes, an enigmatic tour guide, unknowingly threatens the looters of ancient Native ruins. Skip's sidekick, Kukulkan Bonifacio Baltazar, a half-Mayan, half-Yaqui plumber to the stars, and Lilac Williams, Skip's hot-tempered ex-girlfriend who teaches yoga and firearm training, join together to uncover an artifact smuggling ring and investigate a cold-case murder— all while being distracted by an intergalactic swindle perpetuated by an Arizona sidewinder straight out of the old west. Set in artsy Sedona, Arizona, "Tale of the Broken Spoke" introduces a quirky cast of characters including new age spiritualists, chakra and crystal experts, mystics and fortune tellers, vortex believers, alien researchers and abductees, tribal politicians, and archeologists. In eccentric fashion, these characters provide clues and insight into the mysteries facing Skip and his team.The clues take them deep into red rock canyons and on...

A constellation of short stories illustrates the complex, interrelated lives of women in and around Bogotá, Colombia. In six subtly connected vignettes, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from every level of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and faces the new violence of an editor co-opting her experiences. A woman documents a flea infestation with a catalog of the marks on her body. A child copes with anxiety about the adult world by concocting—and drinking—"dirt juice" every day in the garden. Combining humor, heartbreak, and unsettling violence, Ospina weaves a multifaceted picture of contemporary Bogotá in vibrant, gleaming prose.

Nicki, a werepanther abandoned as a child and without a pack, finds herself on the run from the law. Dru, a famous racecar driver and inheritor of his own large pack is on the run from notoriety and his fate. They meet in a small rundown town called Nowhere in rural Australia. 
What happens when two cats meet for the first time? Will it be all claws or will their fates intertwine?

Tegan encounters all kinds of crazies working the night shift at a 24-hour grocery store. None of them, however, have anything on the handsome stranger who comes in one night and helps her fend off an armed robber. He looks the thief directly in the eye and without confrontation convinces him to turn around and walk out the door. Tegan has never seen anything like it, nor does she understand why he then lays those mesmerising eyes on her and tells her to forget they ever met. She shrugs it off as just another weird night shift encounter, until the following evening when her best friend produces free passes to a new club in the city. Tegan agrees to go and is pleasantly surprised by the tasteful, classy décor and oddly beautiful, intensely ethereal clientele. To her surprise, her mysterious stranger is sitting smack dab in the VIP section. What are the chances?! Tegan is struck by the coincidence of bumping into him again so soon, while he is furious that she...

Conspirator or Protector?Agent of the Crown, Tristan Sheffield's mission to uncover a traitor is complicated by an abducted child, and the woman who believes he is the kidnapper. Though she protests her innocence in the conspiracy, his childhood in the rookeries taught him that women are as capable of evil as men. Until he has proof, he won't let her out of his sight.Julia Dorsey's heart goes out to Alice, the injured child who is the sole survivor of a fatal carriage accident. When Julia learns the crash was the result of a kidnapping gone wrong, she vows to protect her charge at all costs, even if it means dealing with the brute who has stolen them away to a hidden location.When their location is revealed and the traitor takes action, the two of them must work together to protect the child. In the race to save young Alice, their journey leads to unexpected discoveries and rewards.But are they enough to satisfy their deepest...