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WHAT’S NEW: JUNE 2015 Overview 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 inexperienced cops. But stagnation and lethargy soon evaporate when a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. As a monster cyclone brews on the horizon, Clement finds himself following the murky trail of a decades old mystery. Crime fiction * 9781925161175 (PB) What’s planned Media: Interviews in Good Reading Magazine, Scoop Magazine, The West Australian and local newspapers in Sydney and . Reviews in Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Advertiser, Austraand The Examiner. Radio interviews on ABC Perth and Sydney, 6PR, RTR FM, 2SER and more. Advertising: Good Reading Magazine, Australian Book Review, plus book trade advertising in Sydney and and online advertising on Google, Facebook and the Australian Crime Writers Association website.

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About the author Dave Warner is the author of nine novels and six non-fiction titles, and has written for feature film, stage, television, radio and newspapers. His first book, City of Light, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction.

Dave Warner originally gained national recognition as a musician-songwriter. His nine albums include the gold album Mug’s Game. In 1992 he was the inaugural inductee into the West Australian Rock’n’Roll of Renown.

Dave has also written screenplays – two that have been made into films areCut (1999), starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue, and Garage Days, co- written and directed by Alex Proyas and starring Pia Miranda.

Warner was a guest of the Perth Fringe Festival in February 2015 and will return to Perth to play with his band and to launch his book in June. Dave Warner is based in Sydney.

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Feature author: Brendan Ritchie FREMANTLE PRESS Brendan Ritchie is a writer and filmmaker who grew up in Esperance and now lives crime & mystery near Fremantle, WA. COLLECTION Brendan is a poet whose work ‘Please Lord – make my boy famous’ was selected by Les Fremantle Press is building a list of quality Murray for The Best Australian Poems 2005. crime novels. Here’s a selection from the backlist. His film credits includeWoody Island, which premiered at the Festival of the Wind in Praise for the‘It’s aauthors winner’ Esperance 2011; the post-apocalyptic short Sydney Morning Herald filmBridgetown, which was shortlisted in the WA Screen Awards and won Best Drama at ‘riveting reading’ The Examiner the Murdoch Media Festival; and Matinee, ‘... an excellent read’ which won Best Film and Best Director at 9781925162257 (PB) The West Australian the Grass Roots Short Film Festival. ‘an atmospheric and sharply Taking a break from making films, Brendan written thriller’ The Saturday Age wrote his first novel,Carousel , within

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Mazenod College Literature Festival in April 9781925161410 (PB) with sharply realised characters.’ 2015. Sydney Morning Herald

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‘This extraordinary novel com- bines the grip and pull of a good thriller with the complexity, ISBN 9781922089755 intelligence and passion of a

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