Hannah Richell

One night in the woodsA party gone wrongA body discovered at sunrise He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress … Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best International Crime Fiction You are invited to: The Search Party Join six old friends for one wild weekend at Cornwall’s newest glamping spot. The guests: The anxious hosts with everything at stake. The boho hippies concealing a private darkness. The TV celebrity with his hot new wife and an even hotter temper....

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best International Crime Fiction You are invited to: The Search Party Join six old friends for one wild weekend at Cornwall’s newest glamping spot. The guests: The anxious hosts with everything at stake. The boho hippies concealing a private darkness. The TV celebrity with his hot new wife and an even hotter temper....

Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart. The Tides are...

[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+Publishing Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. A house of secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her,...

The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under... "It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep you bury the pain, the bones of it will rise up...

It comes out of the blue: a package with a letter and a key. Lila Bailey has no idea who, but someone has bequeathed her a remote lakeside cottage, and the timing couldn't be better. With her marriage unravelling, the house offers the perfect escape. Once there, Lila finds solace in renovating the old cottage, but something about it is...

A party at sunset. A body at sunrise. ‘Thrilling and page-turning!’ Sally Hepworth ELLIE When the body of a young woman is discovered in the woods the morning after Halloween, arranged with ritualistic precision, teenager Ellie has more reason than most to be afraid … RACHEL As both Ellie’s mum and the local school counsellor, Rachel must grapple with the...

An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. An Ocean and a Day is Hannah Richell's personal account of losing her husband, Matt, in a surfing accident on Tamarama beach in 2014. It is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two...