Aussie child star, Billy Parsons, on contract with Universal Studios, goes missing in 1965 in Hollywood. Last seen walking alone down North Beaumont, the child vanishes without trace. One witness, Mrs Marjorie Femmer, claims to have spoken to Billy on the fateful day, but no one else saw the child. No further investigation is done by the police and the case is conveniently filed away.<br /> <br />Fifty years later, the case is reopen ...
Colin Fox is an enigma. Part Scottish, part Aboriginal, as a child he is caught up the Stolen Generation. What follows is a period of abuse and sorrow, but Fox's innate sense of decency and justice sees him not only survive but become a respected SAS warrior.<br /> <br />However fate deals Fox another bitter blow with the murder of his adopted family.<br /> <br />Bikie gangs, gun running, dog fighting, and a mind tha ...
Camille, a fourteen-year-old witch, watches as her mother is burned at the stake. She flees, chased by Xavier, a member of The Society. When Camille finds the auch, Aiyu, he takes her into the mountains for protection. Xavier follows and finds the entrance to the high country. The Society plans to have King Leopold attack and destroy the auchs, but Leopold misreads the information. Leopold marches south to intercept an invasion from Greche. With ...
What happens when the keynote speaker at an important arts festival is found dead?<br /> <br />Welcome to modern Melbourne, UNESCO City of Literature, home to arts festivals galore as well as the internationally famous Melbourne Cup horse race. But the Imagine Festival, held in late August, has more surprises in store than the Festival Director planned when he discovers Deborah Dangerfield's lifeless body upstairs at the Malthou ...
Six international artists are invited to a residency in southern Spain. What could possibly go wrong?<br /> <br />Writer's block and paintings of oranges. Love, lust, revenge. A sculptor left for dead on the side of a mountain.<br /> <br />Part love story, part thriller and wholly page-turning, Dig Two Graves shows us once again that 'Morwood is a classy act.' – The Australian<br /> <br />F ...
Homicide Detective Inspector Michael Ballard is vigorously resisting retirement; not wishing to walk away from continuing to serve society by investigating and solving complex criminal cases.<br /> <br />The brutal murder of a factory owner has him and his partner applying their 'old school' policing skills to hunt down the killer.<br /> <br />But while Ballard is hunting the killer – is the killer hunting him?& ...
To a quiet life has come something truly extraordinary. Jared's seen the Lights since he was a child. Every night for a few minutes at 10pm a strange beacon would shine high up in the darkened factory opposite his tiny house. He ventured there one fateful night, and there he found the spectral creatures. Since then they've taken him to fantastical places, far away from the grey monotony of his life and the darkness of his past. All he& ...
This is a crime fiction story with a difference. Red Coltrane would love nothing more than to be a champion relay runner. But that dream disappeared when motor neurone disease took hold of his body. Red also has an intellectual disability, and he lives in supported accommodation with three other variously disabled men, including Johnny, whose prime means of communication is to hum. But today Red's life has just become even more difficult. & ...
If God is too indifferent, or too non-existent to take care of His creation, then clearly it's up to Me.'<br />Morgen Tanjenz is a lawyer with an overactive sense of justice. His mission in life is to reward the virtuous, punish the ignorant and avenge those who won't avenge themselves. His favourite pastime is 'life sculpture' – anonymously intervening in the lives of strangers to change their destiny in ways ...
