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A DEATH PACT AND SHOCKING BETRAYAL. A DELUDED KILLER. A SMALL TOWN DETECTIVE PUSHED TO THE BRINK.

A double homicide. A detective racing against time to protect three innocent lives. A madman hellbent on revenge.

This riveting suspense thriller is set in the rural Australian town of Lockyer. Detective Sergeant…

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This is a nail-biting thriller set in rural Australia that centres around the protagonist Jarrod O'Connor, a weary detective who is exhausted due to the harrowing case he is investigating. Three children lose their parents in the most brutal way and the man responsible is more dangerous than O'Connor could ever begin to imagine. The antagonist is presented as a well-rounded character whom the reader gets to psychoanalyse as we consider whether this man was simply born evil, or whether he is an abomination of human nature. From derelict farmhouses to cosy suburbia, the settings are vividly described in each…

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