From the best-selling author of Purgatory, comes the sequel The Price of Justice.Thirty-one years ago, Bowker solved the brutal murder of a teenage schoolgirl as a senior constable in the one-copper Mallee town of Manangatang.Now, he must return to the area to investigate another killing.The victim: the original killer, who had just been released, following his lengthy prison sentence.The scene of the crime: the exact locat...

Greg Bowker is back with a new murder mystery to be solved...Detective Inspector Greg Bowker must travel to the town of his childhood to investigate the murder of an elderly man, one who happens to be Greg's old school teacher.His visit reignites boyhood memories of he and his younger brother discovering a blood-covered body on the slopes of a stony, scrubby hill known to those in the area as the Granite.As the investigation evolves, Bowker and hi...

Homicide detective Greg Bowker's wife Rachael is visiting a friend in the seaside town of Port Fairy when she is physically assaulted by her abusive first husband, Trevor Flynn, who is running a dubious housing development beside the nearby lough.Incensed when informed of the assault, Bowker travels to the town, promising anyone who will listen that he's there to settle the 'Flynn problem' once and for all.When Flynn's shark ravaged body washes up on the rocks and forensics...

IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S.Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'. He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family history hides a secret he cannot resist investig...

The discovery of a young woman's body at a lonely country reservoir sets in train a long and complex murder inquiry for Detective Inspector Greg Bowker and his team. But this one is different. This one becomes much more personal, and of all the investigations Bowker has conducted over the years, none come close to carrying such serious consequences. If things don't fall his way, his life will be turned upside down and his career as a police officer probably finished.

The year is 1995. Country copper Greg Bowker is the surprise appointment to the Homicide Squad, much to the chagrin of more senior applicants. Teamed with one of the few female detectives in the squad who also happens to be the chief commissioner's daughter, Bowker inherits the inquiry into the murder of a high-profile investigative reporter. His partner's critical injury in a car crash, and a second murder, combine to make Bowker's appointment a baptism of fire. His inquiries gradually un...

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Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'. He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family history hides a secret he can't resist investigating. A subsequent disappearanc...

You only take the High Wire if you're desperate - or up to no good.A notorious unmarked track through outback Australia, the 'Wire' crosses slabs of lawless land, body-dumping grounds and mobile phone blackspots.Senior Sergeant Edna Norris knows all too well that her jurisdiction - covering 200,000 square kilometres of South Australia desert - is the place where people go to disappear. But nothing could have prepared her for today's rapidly unfolding crime spree: a...

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners.Still coming to terms with his wife's death - and the part he played in it - the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Altair, from certain execution.Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Altair's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. H...

A coastal town is evacuated after record floods. Three young police officers are left behind. With a killer.The small beachside town of Gloster is on the edge of disaster. After constant rain, floodwaters are rising fast.Detective Constable Craig Watson, exiled to Gloster from Sydney, is a young man with a damaged past and an uncertain future.Constables Ellie Cameron and Larissa Brookes are young women struggling to show their worth as police officers under a misogy...

A body on an empty highway. Floodwaters rising fast. And nowhere left to run.Longlisted for the Davitt Awards Best Adult Novel, this electrifying Australian thriller will keep listeners hooked until the final twist.As the first drops of rain begin to fall, Quinn spots a body lying beside an isolated highway. With no phone reception, no help for miles, and a dangerous storm approaching, she faces an impossible choice: stop and investigate—or...