Classic Fiction

The third thrilling book in the bestselling, award-winning A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE, WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCOMES A NAIL-BITING STORY OF TRAGEDY AND REVENGE

Like Michael Connelly's Bosch, former war correspondent John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth - and expose a deadly enemy. He heard a voice, someone calling out in the distance, followed by a loud fluttering of birds. Bailey looked up just in time to see a body fal...ling from the sky ... Investigative journalist John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth so being kicked when he's down comes with the territory. Having lost the one woman who was always there to pick him up, the former war correspondent is doing his best to turn his life around without her. He has a new job. He's given up the drink. He even has a dog. But then Federal Police raid his home with a warrant granting them unprecedented powers to take anything they want - including all his electronic devices and passwords. When Bailey protests, they threaten to put him in a prison cell if he doesn't comply. Someone wants to stop Bailey doing what he does best - exposing the truth. He has been investigating the rise of a global white supremacist group and suspects that a notorious neo-Nazi in the United States has been directing deadly racist attacks on Sydney's streets. When a body of one of his key sources washes up on a nearby beach, it's clear Bailey and anyone helping him have become targets. Bailey reaches out for help from a reliable and ruthless old friend - CIA veteran, Ronnie Johnson - and the pair discover a deadly enemy emerging from the shadows. An enemy who thought they were untouchable. Until now ... 'Sharp, gritty, sophisticated. Ayliffe's criminal world is terrifyingly real' Candice Fox Praise for State of Fear 'Another brilliantly crafted thriller from Ayliffe that fits perfectly in today's worrying world ... Verdict: Get this guy on TV' Herald Sun 'Sharp, incisive and scarily prescient, I was hooked from the first chapter to the final page.' Sara Foster, bestselling author of The Hidden Hours 'Utterly compelling and terrifyingly timely. I could not put it down' Pip Dr
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As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England to study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting ...his teeth in business on the rough and ready goldfields of Far North Queensland's Palmer River, he finally realises his dream and travels to England, where he is accepted into the Sandhurst military academy. While in London he makes surprising new acquaintances - and runs into a few old ones he'd rather have left behind. From the Australian bush to the glittering palaces of London, from the arid lands of Afghanistan and the horrors of war to the newly established Germany dominated by Prussian ideas of militarism, Josiah Steele must now forge his own path.
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A suspenseful, haunting novel about three brothers and their reckoning with the events of one disputed, disastrous summer.