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 and catch ...

Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of making the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible phone call that signals the beginning of a series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake the city to its foundations … 'Gruesome' has taken another victim and the whole population is riveted by the emergence of the dark side of the City of Light.

1963, 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 fr...

A violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents – the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek mine site, social justice protests at an abattoir, a break-in at an early childhood clinic – seem mundane by comparison. But as Clement starts to make troubling connections between each crime, he finds himself caught in a terrifying race. In a landmass larger than Western ...

In 1999 and 2000, three young women disappear from outside the Autostrada nightclub in the Perth suburb of Claremont. Knockabout 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 in the north-west, and Snowy is hired to find her. In the tropical town of Broome, a spate of local thefts puts Snowy and Detective Inspector Dan Clement back on the trail of the cold-case kill...

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, things take a macabre turn. The stakes rise sky-high as Dan races against time to solve this complex and puzzling case.

When Australia’s most successful and least liked musician is found dead, it looks like an overdose. But his roadie is dead too, and there are a lot of suspects. First published in 1998 and featuring the country’s most unlikely sleuth—ex-rock star Andrew ‘The Lizard’ Zirk—Murder in the Groove is the first in a three part series of whodunnits that read like a cross between Agatha Christie and Carl Hiaasen.Dave Warner is an award-winning author, screenwrite...

The crazy, effervescent characters from Dave Warner’s Exxxpresso finally get an encore in Double Exxxpresso.Ex-con Rick Boski and his sexy and duplicitous partner Zeen have made good on their dream of running a prison-themed café and import business in downtown Perth.But when former prison chaplain Father Paul Monaghan dips into the parish funds to bet on a ‘sure thing’ racehorse, Rick and Zeen need to call on their old skills to keep the good father, and ...

Ex-rock star turned sleuth Andrew ‘The Lizard’ Zirk goes on a romantic island getaway with his chauffeur, Fleur. There are only two problems: they’re joined by a recently defeated football team—and murder. First published in 2000, Murder in the Off-Season is the final in a three part series of whodunnits that read like a cross between Agatha Christie and Carl Hiaasen. Dave Warner is an award-winning author, screenwriter and musician. He won the Western Australian...

Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in, and there's a killer on the loose, slaying strangers who seem to have nothing in common. Is it simple good fortune that Georgette, who freelances for the NYPD, suddenly finds herself in the company of the greatest detective of all time? And will Sherlock Holmes be...

For two Australian police officers the search for a missing hippie becomes the search for a serial killer. Set in the USA in 1967 – author and musician Dave Warner evokes the music and the spirit of the Summer of Love in his gripping new crime novel.

Former rock star turned sleuth, Andrew ‘The Lizard’ Zirk, is back. This time he’s been invited to the short film festival, TropFest, and of course murder is on the program. First published in 1998, Murder in the Frame is the second in a three part series of whodunnits that read like a cross between Agatha Christie and Carl Hiaasen.Dave Warner is an award-winning author, screenwriter and musician. He won the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction in 1996 f...