by Dave Warner
ALSO BY DAVE WARNER
1961, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in a tiny coastal Australian town. The ghosts of the past still haunt him, but otherwise Coral Shoals is paradise. Blake surfs, and plays guitar in his own bar, the Surf Shack. But then the body of a young woman is found at a local motel, and evidence links her to the Surf Shack. When Blake’s friend is arrested, and the local sergeant doesn’t want to know, it becomes clear to Blake – who knows a thing or two about murder – that the only way to protect his paradise is to find the killer.
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‘Jesus Christ. I found one.’ These words are blurted over the phone to Constable Snowy Lane, who is preoccupied with no more than a ham sandwich and getting a game with the East Fremantle league side on Saturday. They signal the beginning of a series of events that are to shake Perth to its foundations. It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. ‘Mr Gruesome’ has just taken another victim. Snowy’s life and career are to be forever changed by the grim deeds of a serial killer, and the dark bloom spreading across the City of Light.
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Detective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town cops. Here, in the oasis on the edge of the desert, life is as stagnant as Clement’s latest career move. But when a body is discovered at a local fishing spot, it is clearly not the result of a crocodile attack. Somewhere in Broome is a hunter of a different kind. As more bodies are found, Clement races to solve a decades-old mystery before a monster cyclone hits.
‘Laid-back and laconic, with sentences as snappy as a nutcracker.’
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ALSO BY DAVE WARNER
In 1999 and 2000, three women disappear from outside a nightclub in Perth. Snowy Lane is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the abductor. Seventeen years on, the daughter of a wealthy mining magnate goes missing, and Snowy is hired to find her. In the tropical town of Broome, a spate of local thefts puts Snowy and DI Daniel Clement back on the trail of the cold-case killer. Snowy is determined that this time he will get his man, even if it costs him his life.
‘A fast-paced plot and writing that is dense with colourful vernacular and Aussie humour.’ Sun-Herald.
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First published 2020 by
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ISBN 9781925816860 (paperback)
ISBN 9781925816877 (ebook)
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Publication of this title was assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.