Three bodies, three suspects, one frightened town. The discovery of a body dangling from a tree in the Mara Forestry forces newly appointed local police officer Sergeant Micheal Ryan to call in disgraced homicide Detective Mark Bannon, known as ‘The Devil’, to investigate the murders.
An Abandoned farmhouse A 57 Year old double murder. Can Detective Bannon and Segeant Ryan track down the killer before they are cold in a grave in Mara's cemetery.
First the Goats. Then the Women. It Started with a Big Cat. It Ends with The Devil.
In the remote Australian outback of north-west Victoria, a farmer dies confronting a predator stalking his livestock. Constable Madeline Kerne calls it in to Sergeant Michael Ryan, who along with homicide detective Mark 'The Devil' Bannon are enjoying a quiet weekend gathering at local farmer Joe Cooke’s property.
The Devil’s Revenge
A Detective Bannon and Sergeant Ryan Mystery
The Mara Mysteries Book Four
Some men hide in plain sight. That’s what makes them dangerous.
When Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bannon is pulled from his posting in country Victoria and handed a cold case by Detective Superintendent Turner. A fourteen-year-old girl raped and murdered in an empty house for sale in Cheltenham. He inherits more than a file. He inherits a failed investigation, and the uncomfortable suspicion that whoever did this won’t stop at one.
The first breakthrough doesn’t come from the case file. It comes from a second body. A woman found strangled on St Kilda Beach, her night at a local hotel ending the way the killer planned from the moment he followed her.
As Bannon, Sergeant Mick Ryan, and Detective Sergeant Brad Kingsley piece together the evidence, the investigation pulls them deeper into a world of lonely victims, buried secrets, and a man who selects his targets. And with another woman already in his sights, time is not on their side. The killer is organised, methodical, and hiding in plain sight behind a tradie’s ute, a dating profile, and a patient, predatory calm.
But Bannon has his own complications. A divorce grinding through the courts. Three children he barely sees. A posting at the end of all this that may or may not be waiting. And in a small town north of Melbourne, a missing sergeant and a web of corruption that someone very much wants left alone.
A gripping police procedural set in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, where the danger wears an ordinary face and the cost of the job is measured in more than time.
This is the fourth book in the Mara Mysteries Series.
This book is written in Australian English. It contains Australian slang, Australian Idioms, Australian wit and humour. You will find a glossary of all Australian terms used at the end of the book.
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Murder on the Murray
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When duty and death collide, The Devil takes the field.
Detective Mark Bannon earned his nickname the hard way as a crack shot in the South Australian outback who could track anything and never missed. Now confined to desk duty in Mildura after a misconduct inquiry, he’s meant to stay behind a computer screen and away from fieldwork.
When a fitness instructor is found bludgeoned to death by the river, Detective Inspector Gerske needs Bannon’s tracking skills and investigative instincts. As Bannon reads footprints in the dust and follows the evidence through the mallee scrub, he hunts a man who won’t let go. A man willing to kill to keep what he’s already lost.
With a dangerous suspect in his sights, and Professional Standards watching his every move. Bannon must prove he’s more than the cold-blooded killer the rumours claim.
But when a call from Geelong shatters everything, Bannon discovers some fights can’t be won with a rifle and some losses leave wounds no amount of justice can heal.
Three bodies, three suspects, one frightened town.
The discovery of a body dangling from a tree in the Mara Forestry forces newly appointed local police officer Sergeant Micheal Ryan to call in disgraced homicide Detective Mark Bannon, known as ‘The Devil’, to investigate the murders.
Detective Bannon calls upon his years of experience in the outback to examine the crime scene, and they soon discover they have three bodies, three suspects and clues lead them to the nearby small outback town of Blackpond where the residents are unwilling to cooperate with police
With the odds piling up against them, and time running out, can they track down the murderers before they kill again?
This is the first book in the Mara Mysteries Series.