โ€œA fantastic new voice in Australian fiction.โ€

The Weekend Australian

  • Fans of Jane Harper will love The Whispering.

    Mamamia

  • Eerie, atmospheric and addictive.

    Candice Fox

  • Twists that you won't see coming.

    Polly Phillips - author of My Best Friendโ€™s Murder

  • Lando is the queen of atmosphere and setting.

    Mercedes Mercier - author of The Couples Retreat

THE WHISPERING

The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look awayโ€ฆ

Callum Haffenden swears heโ€™ll never return to Granite Creek. But, thirty years after a life-shattering accident, heโ€™s thrust back into the clutches of far north Queensland and a local legend heโ€™s 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

Sheโ€™ll grab you by the ankles and hold you under until you sinkโ€ฆ

Nate canโ€™t believe heโ€™s 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, donโ€™t and the whole town will sink.

But itโ€™s just a legend, a gimmick. Everybody knows that.

Donโ€™t they?

Award Winning Fiction

WINNER

HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Commercial Fiction

FINALIST

The Courier-Mails Peopleโ€™s Choice Queensland Book of the Year

FINALIST

Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award

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