When It Rains

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 03/10/2024 - 12:07pm by Karen

The book cover for When It Rains by Dave Warner includes the notation 'A Dan Clement Novel' and 'From the Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction'. The image is looking straight down on a body of water which has a crocodile swimming in it to the right hand side / top of the book. The water is slightly swirly with reeds t the left. The author's name is in large white lettering, and the book title in slightly blue lettering just below that

For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman' s hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters,...Read more

Death Leaves the Station

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 26/06/2024 - 5:22pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Death Leaves the Station by Alexander Thorpe is a textured layout with the left hand side being the textured outline of a woman's white face and black hair, her hair curling around onto her check, forming the shape of joined hands with a string of beads hanging from them. There's the outline of a male body sitting to the left of the book title which runs down the black side of her hair / face. The background to the rest of the cover is green, yellow and muted colours with the images of flowers and leaves on it. Where the white of her face swings down to the bottom of the image, there's a horse and cart with a single figure driving it

A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station at the same time that Ana, the adopted daughter of the station owners, discovers a body in the desert during her midnight walk. But when Ana returns to look for it, the body is gone.

Death Leaves the Station brings the cosy...Read more

Death Holds the Key

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 26/06/2024 - 3:33pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Death Holds the Key by Alexander Thorpe is a textured layout with the left hand side being the textured black outline of a man holding a book, a rosary with cross dangling from the same hand. On the right, against a slightly off white background is the outline of an image of a man in a hat, the texture over that image is made up of vines and leaves. At the bottom, over the top of the textured black there's an outline of a handgun, textured in the same way as the man in the hat. The title has a keyhole in place of the O in Holds, and is all in white, except for the KEY, which has the same texture again as the gun / hatted man.

When loathed landholder Fred O' Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help from a mysterious wanderer to solve the case. And it' s one where everyone, including his family, has a motive and a secret to keep.Featuring the...Read more