★Winner of the 2016 Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction.

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.

 

Dave Warner is the author of six novels, five non-fiction books and three children’s books. He originally gained national recognition as a musician and songwriter, but more recently music has been secondary to Dave's career as a writer for stage, television, feature films, radio and newspapers - including feature films CUT (starring Kylie Minogue and Molly Ringwald) and GARAGE DAYS (co-written with director Alex Proyas) and TV script editing and writing for MCLEOD’S DAUGHTERS. He currently has a number of feature scripts in development . . . when he’s not busy writing books in the Charlotte And The Starlet series. Dave lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.