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For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman’ s hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters,…
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Dave Warner writes a genre called 'outback noir'; imagine a gritty detective story, but set in the Australian outback, instead of grimy inner city streets. Think Aussie Carl Hiassen or Elmore Leonard. His protagonist, Dan Clement, is always working against the odds - the weather, nature, crocodiles, spiders or human snakes - are never kind to him. The best thing about Warner's fiction though is that he lays breadcrumbs for the reader, but never telegraphs who the guilty party is before the last chapter. (I hate crime fiction where you guessed or are told who the baddie is halfway through…
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