sydney (n.s.w.)

Takes readers on a journey to the city of Sydney, exploring the history, geography, people, and more.

"A beautiful young woman is found murdered on a river bank, and Detective Harriet Blue is convinced she's the next victim of the worst serial killer Sydney has seen in decades. But the more Harriet learns, the more she realises this murder is not what she first thought. And her own life might be tangled up in the case."--Provided by publisher.

"Describes a visit to Sydney, Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, Royal Botanic Garden, Taronga Zoo, and various other historical and cultural attractions"--.

"Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family"--OCLC.

In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.

Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives him new insights into his fellow students and helps him cope with an incident he has tried to forget.

Determined to understand why humans hate cane toads and to improve relations between the species, Limpy embarks on a dangerous trek from his swamp to the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

In 1932, the Razorhurst neighborhood is wracked by mob violence done with razor blades since guns are illegal. The peace between mob bosses Gloriana Nelson and Mr. Davidson is threatened by Dymphna Campbell, a prostitute with a deadly past who can see and speak with Razorhurst's ghosts. Young orphan Kelpie can see the ghosts, too, and when the girls meet they form an alliance that will shift the balance of power in Razorhurst forever.

"The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As much as Rosalind's life was a mystery to Gemma when they were students together, her death presents even more of a puzzle. What made Rosalind quit her teaching job in Sydney and return to her hometown? Why did she live in a small, run-down apartment when her father was one of the town's richest men? And despite her many admirers, did anyone in the town truly know her? Rosalind's enigmas frustrate and obsess Gemma, who has her own dangerous secrets--an affair with her colleague and past tragedies that may not stay in the past"--Provided by publisher.

Text and photographs look at the history, people, education, entertainment, and more of the city of Sydney.