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June 2025

 

Haere mai, welcome to our True Crime / Mystery newsletter. Take a walk on the dark side and discover crimes both real and fictional.

 

Blog Post

Hell's Bells! Professor Eustacia Rose is back

Fee reviews the second book in a mystery series. Hell's Bells heralds the return of the reclusive, indomitable botanical toxicologist.

Read Fee's post
 

Staff List

New For You - Mystery & Thriller - June 2025

Fiction that keeps you guessing - find danger, killers, and unexpected twists in this selection of the newest mystery and thriller titles.

New For You - Mystery/Thriller
 

Video

Crime and Thriller movies on Beamafilm

Watch crime and thriller movies on Beamafilm.

Watch thrillers on Beamafilm
 

Staff List

New For You - True Crime - June 2025

What's new? Our selectors have hand-picked the top new additions to the collection for espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.

New For You - True Crime
 

Video

Crime on Beamafilm

Watch crime-related documentaries on Beamafilm.

Watch crime docos on Beamafilm
 

New titles

Mysteries

 

Thrillers

"59 Minutes" by Seddon, Holly
"The Ascent" by Buccola, Allison
"Agaw-anino" by Pingol, Erik Guzman
"Baby Teeth" by Silvani, Celia
"All We Trust" by Galloway, Gregory
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"The Ascent" by Buccola, Allison
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True crime

"Whack Job" by James, Rachel McCarthy
"This House of Grief" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"The Mushroom Tapes" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"Polkinghorne" by Braunias, Steve, 1960-
"The First Murderer I Ever Met" by Dapin, Mark, 1963-
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"This House of Grief" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
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Coming soon

Seesaw monster by Kotaro Isaka

A gripping novel mixing mythology, family drama, espionage, and high technology from the author of Bullet Train.

 

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. For those who love a classic thriller.

 

The Sleep room by Jon Stock

Chilling exposé of the cruel psychiatric treatments inflicted on hundreds of women with mental illness in the 1960s by an influential British doctor.

 

Recommended reads

Staff List

Historical Mystery

From Renaissance Florence to the jazz age in New Orleans - stories of murder and investigation in richly detailed historical settings.

Staff List

Non-Fiction - Australian True Crime

Read of vice, corruption, drugs, and family secrets and uncover Australia’s criminal underworld and folk legends.

More recommended mysteries
More recommended true crime
 

Matariki

This June we celebrate Matariki and Puaka. Learn more about Māori New Year and find library resources, activities and events.

More about Matariki
 
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