โA fantastic new voice in Australian fiction.โ
The Weekend Australian
THE WHISPERING
The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look awayโฆ
Callum Haffenden swears heโll never return to Granite Creek. But, thirty years after a life-shattering accident, heโs thrust back into the clutches of far north Queensland and a local legend heโs worked hard to forget.
While searching for answers about the death of a local man, the truth of a decades-old mystery of two missing girls surfaces, and suspects begin to pile up.
With an urge to protect his teenage daughter, Callum battles The Whispering burrowing into his ears and fights to resist the lure of the rainforest. After all, everyone knows that the worst things in the rainforest are those unseen.
THE DROWNING GIRLS
Sheโll grab you by the ankles and hold you under until you sinkโฆ
Nate canโt believe heโs dragged himself up to this backwater town. Port Flinders would have fallen off the map years ago, except for one thing. Tourists flock to its mangrove-lined shores for the annual Drowning Girl festival: sacrifice a girl at sea, and the fishing hauls that keep the town afloat will prosper, donโt and the whole town will sink.
But itโs just a legend, a gimmick. Everybody knows that.
Donโt they?
Award Winning Fiction
WINNER
HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Commercial Fiction
FINALIST
The Courier-Mails Peopleโs Choice Queensland Book of the Year
FINALIST
Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award
Sign up to stay in touch with book updates and news