Xou Creative: 56 books

Shes a brain surgeon, shes beautiful and she desperately wants Mister Rainbow to shed some light on her husbands past. But when he does, she wishes he hadnt. Because what Rainbow discovers is a handless hood and an awful lot of murders.Rainbows a retro private eye who keeps himself to himself: lives...

In the heat of a Melbourne summer, the two best female tennis players in the world do battle for one of the most prestigious titles on the tour: the Australian Open. Susanna Freeman and Riley O'Toole are great rivals and great friends. They've fought over matches, but never over love until now. Rising...

Its springtime in Paris and the worlds elite tennis players descend on the City of Love for the French Open.The number one player, Susanna Freeman, is under threat not only from her friend and arch rival, Riley OToole, but also from a charismatic and mysterious French aristocrat intent on seducing her....

Tennis sensation Riley O’Toole is on target to win at tennis and in love until she arrives in London for Wimbledon and an old flame threatens to bring it all undone.Meanwhile, her best friend and number one rival, Susanna Freeman, struggles with her feelings for rising star Channing Ford even as he...

New York, late summer, and the temperature is rising both on and off the court. Riley O’Toole has been trailing behind her best friend and biggest rival Susanna Freeman all year, but the tide is turning and everyone knows that being number one is now within Riley’s grasp. Channing Ford meanwhile...

Winner of the 2014 Viva La Novella PrizeFrom Rio to Oostend to Amsterdam and beyond, a troupe of acrobats travel the world, performing miracles in the air, enthralling audiences. In between gigs, they drink, play and taunt each other. They get bored. They get up to no good. Then they jump on a plane...

A trip to Paris in the company of a beautiful dame would be many men’s idea of heaven. But a flight to France with the gorgeous Helen Damnation rapidly spirals into a journey to hell. Rainbow’s daughter is missing and he doesn’t know who’s taken her or why. Nor does he know where she might have...

Rainbow’s got the blues. His girlfriend’s dumped him; his assassin mate Rory’s found God; his Aunt Rube’s as sick as a bad joke; and his ex-wife’s thrown up a barricade all right, a cordon bleu around his daughter Imogene.So when a snake’s let loose in a laboratory, his ballet teacher’s...

The two volumes in the Mister Rainbow collection, of which this is the first, bring together the seven sensational novellas in this acclaimed detective series 21st century cases with a wink and a nod to the golden age of pulp fiction spearheaded by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. With their memorable...

Winner of the 2014 Viva La Novella PrizeWith the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Abigail must learn to fend for herself against the cruel stewardship of her father. At war with the local Aboriginals and intent on staking his claim on the land at any cost, what occurs between the two is a stunning...

Elena Rubik can’t seem to stay dead. She persists: as a set of corneas, as a newsletter subscriber, as a member of fanfiction forums. Her best friend Jules Valentine meanwhile is unwittingly inveigled into an indie-film turned corporate branding stunt. When Jules leaks information about the true story...

Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero, Dr Claude Tozer, scandalised Sydney. Dorothy’s respectable husband was devastated. Following a trial that mesmerised the public and...

In the spring of 1917 an apprentice from the Cumberland Paper Mills, just outside Sydney, was walking along a bush track beside the Lane Cove River when he discovered the partially burnt body of an unidentified woman. The arrest three years later of a 45-year-old Italian, Eugenia Falleni, for murder,...

Winner of the 2014 Viva La Novella PrizeWhen Luke is implicated in the tragic death of a child, he struggles to assert his innocence to those around him. While the accident invokes haunting memories of Luke’s late brother, who died when they were children, he strives to maintain a grip on reality as...