Dave Warner

The thrilling third instalment in the award-winning Dan Clement series, described by reviewers as 'Aussie noir at its best.' A violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents—the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek mine site, social justice protests at an abattoir,...

Get ready for a wild ride through the Summer of Love with Dave Warner's newest crime novel, Summer of Blood. Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs, and hippie counterculture....

In 1999 and 2000, three young women disappear from outside the Autostrada nightclub in the Perth suburb of Claremont. The knockabout Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator, but neither he nor the cops can find the abductor. Seventeen years on, the daughter of a wealthy mining magnate goes missing in the northwest, and Snowy is...

A contemporary tale of murder and scientific intrigue featuring Sherlock Holmes in New York City from award-winning crime writer Dave Warner. Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing...

From award-winning author Dave Warner comes River of Salt, praised by the Australian Book Reviews as 'Australian crime writing at its apex'. 1963, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in...

A town full of crime and swamps full of crocodiles—Dan Clement has his hands full with a free-spirited new girlfriend and a secret that won't stay submerged for long. 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...

Detective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town cops. Here, in the oasis on the edge of the desert, life is as stagnant as Clement's latest career move. But when a body is discovered in a local fishing spot, it is clearly not...

Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (1996), Dave Warner's debut novel, City of Light, is a contemporary crime novel that will get hearts racing. Book one in the Snowy Lane series by award-winning Australian author Dave Warner. It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. Constable Snowy Lane is kicking back, preoccupied with...

A manor house cosy crime with all the hallmarks of an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery. Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (nee de Reve) read from her late husband's will. One of the house guests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who...

A town full of crime and swamps full of crocodiles—Dan Clement has his hands full with a free-spirited new girlfriend and a secret that won't stay submerged for long. For Broome detective Dan Clement, 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...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett’s extraordinary story. It’s the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The 100,000 strong crowd leaps to its feet and roars as Marlion Pickett sends the ball soaring through the goalposts for his first ever major, celebrated by every teammate, a tradition...

Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award (1996), Dave Warner's debut novel, City of Light, is a contemporary crime novel that will get hearts racing. It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. Constable Snowy Lane is kicking back, preoccupied with no more than a ham sandwich and getting a game with the East...