Before It Breaks

Winner: 2016 Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome the tropical town where he grew up 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 give way to a case with urgent purpose. On the edge of the desert a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. And he is only the first. The connection between the victims is elusive but Clement must pursue it as a decades-old mystery begins to unravel and a monster cyclone brews on the horizon.