Vikki Wakefield

A daughter abducted, an anonymous caller, a descent into madness—the first adult crime thriller by beloved Australian author Vikki Wakefield will have you on the edge of your seat. What happens to a family when a child goes missing? In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah's hand. She isn't a bad mother, just exhausted. When she...

Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything—except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can't explain. The funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by voices...

A gritty, ultimately triumphant novel from one of Australia's most loved YA writers, the author of the award-winning Friday Brown. Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's worried about a lot of things—how his dad treats Nance and his twin half-brothers; the hydro crop growing in his bedroom; the way his friend Merrick always drags him...

A compulsively readable psychological thriller from the award-winning author of After You Were Gone. The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career,...

Jacklin Bates has life figured out—dropped out of school, moved in with her runaway sister, and in love with an older boy. But why does she have a sinking feeling that she still needs her mum? Perhaps it's because she's stuck in Mobius—a dying town with the macabre suicide forest as its only attraction—stuck working in the roadhouse and babysitting...

All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield tells the story of Mim, a young girl who knows what she wants and where she wants to go—anywhere but home. Stuck in the suburbs with her disengaged mother, who won't get off the couch, and with two brothers in prison, Mim has set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to...

Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—escaping memories of her mother and the family curse. She’s also fleeing a grandfather who’d like her to stay. Lost, alone, and afraid, she encounters Silence, a street kid, and joins his gang led by the beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the group escapes to a ghost town in...