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Murder in the Off-Season

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:10:40 +0200

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 Premier's Award for Fiction in 1996 for City of Light (1995), the Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Fiction in 2017 for Before it Breaks (2015), is a member of the WA Rock and Roll of Renown (1992). In 2015, he was named a Western Australian State Living Treasure. For more information visit davewarner.com.au.

Murder in the Frame

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:10:38 +0200

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 for City of Light (1995), the Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Fiction in 2017 for Before it Breaks (2015) and is a member of the WA Rock and Roll of Renown (1992). In 2015, he was named a Western Australian State Living Treasure. For more information visit davewarner.com.au.

After the Flood

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:10:37 +0200

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 a childhealth care 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 Europe, he must identify and protect an unknown target before it is blown to bits by an invisible enemy.

Summer of Blood

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:05:14 +0200

Get ready for a wild ride through the Summer of Love with Dave Warner's newest crime novel.

Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn' t just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture.

This book is not to be missed for fans of gripping crime fiction and rock' n' roll.

When It Rains

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:45:38 +0200

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.

Over My Dead Body

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:35:38 +0300

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 able to save Dr Watson in a world that has changed drastically in 200 years, even if human nature has not?

Charlotte and the Starlet 2

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:16:07 +0200

Our favourite outback girl and Hollywood horse return for more hilarious misadventures! Charlotte has made it into the prestigious Junior Olympic Equestrian Squad (JOES), and Leila is having so much fun with Charlotte that she's given up her sparkling Hollywood movie career, for now. The Evil Three, Emma, Lucinda and Rebecca, are back to make Charlotte's life difficult. Luckily, Charlotte finds a friend in Hannah, a new JOES recruit. But this means she has less time to spend with Leila - and Leila is a horse who doesn't like to be ignored. Unfortunately, things get a whole lot worse when Charlotte is sent to a deportment academy, and she returns to Thornton Downs to discover Leila has been sold to a disreputable showman. Charlotte has to get Leila back, but it will take all her courage and brains, as well as help from Todd and Hannah, to rescue her best friend.

Charlotte and the Starlet 3

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:16:08 +0200

The third book of the hilarious misadventures of an outback girl and a Hollywood horse. When Thornton Downs academy is sued by one of the Evil Three, there is only one solution: Leila must return to her beloved Hollywood and make a movie to save the academy. Luckily, Charlotte gets to tag along. But Hollywood has its own problems -- snobby stars, superstitious writers, disgruntled employees and the lure of glamorous parties to tempt Leila away from the job at hand. Filming grinds to a stand still when Leila's co-star, Sarah-Jane, is kidnapped. Charlotte, with the help of Todd, Leila and Feathers, needs to undercover who is jeopardising the film and why, before it is cancelled and the academy is shut down.

Clear to the Horizon

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:28:27 +0200

In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case. Clear to the Horizon is a nail-biting Aussie-style thriller, based on one of the great unsolved crimes in Western Australia's recent history. Its twists and turns will keep you guessing to the end.Dave Warner's Before It Breaks (Fremantle Press) won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction in 2016.This novel brilliantly combines the sleuthing skills of two of Warner's best-known characters and looks at how unsolved crimes can continue to haunt communities long after the fact.The book references the Claremont serial killings, Western Australia's most notorious...

Before It Breaks

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:16:08 +0200

Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome, the tropical town where he grew up, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town, inexperienced cops. But stagnation and lethargy soon give way to a case with urgent purpose. On the edge of the desert, a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. And he is only the first. The connection between the victims is elusive, but Clement must pursue it as a decades-old mystery begins to unravel and a monster cyclone brews on the horizon.

Murder in the Groove

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:10:36 +0200

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, screenwriter and musician. He won the Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction in 1996 for City of Light (1995), the Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Fiction in 2017 for Before it Breaks (2015) and is a member of the WA Rock and Roll of Renown (1992). In 2015, he was named a Western Australian State Living Treasure. For more information visit davewarner.com.au

Charlotte and the Starlet

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:16:07 +0200

A hilarious misadventure starring a determined teenage girl and a Hollywood diva who happens to be a talking horse ...Charlotte is a natural horseperson, and now she has the chance to try out for the Junior Olympic Equestrian Squad! But the academy head already disapproves of her, and Charlotte's roommates aren't above playing dirty tricks to get ahead. Then Charlotte meets the horse she'll be riding in the try-outs . . . Leila is a movie star horse with a diva attitude. But Leila gets the shock of her life when she's kidnapped and ends up at a girls' riding academy in Australia. Her only way back to Hollywood is to reveal her big secret to her rider - yes, Leila can talk. Can the two work together to achieve their dreams? Will Charlotte gain a place in the squad, or is running away her only option? And will Leila find her way back to her beloved film set?