Alexander Thorpe

Set in a small Australian town in the 1920s, lose yourself in Alexander Thorpe's latest cosy crime mystery. In the true tradition of parlour-room reveals, it's a thrilling ride right to the shocking and satisfying conclusion. When loathed landholder Fred O'Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help...

Death Leaves the Station brings the cosy country-house intrigue of crime fiction's Golden Age to the Australian wheatbelt. Set in 1927, the story takes all the classic elements of an interwar murder mystery and gives it a distinctive Australian flavour. A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station, at the same time that Ana, the adopted daughter of the station...