Dave Warner Books in Order

For Broome detective Dan Clement, the wet season brings more than storms. After his sergeant is badly beaten and a woman is assaulted, two local thugs look guilty, until a severed hand surfaces in crocodile filled waters and the investigation veers into far darker territory.

In 1967, detectives John Gordon and Ray Shearer travel from Australia to San Francisco to find a government minister’s missing son in the midst of the Summer of Love. Immersed in psychedelic music, free love and protest, they discover a serial killer hiding behind the counterculture scene.

After a man is found crucified near a remote station in the north of Western Australia, Dan Clement and his Broome team are drawn into the case. Petty thefts, a mine site robbery and protest actions slowly reveal a plot that could end in a large scale bombing.

Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson can revive frozen hamsters, but needs a human trial to prove her breakthrough. As a killer stalks New York in the depths of winter, she teams up with a resurrected Sherlock Holmes to stop the murders and survive her own experiment.

A mob hitman betrays his own to save his life, then disappears from early sixties Philadelphia and washes up in a small Australian surf town. Running a bar and playing guitar, he thinks he is safe until a young woman is murdered and evidence points back to his club.

In 1999 and 2000, three women vanish outside a Perth nightclub and private investigator Snowy Lane cannot crack the case. Seventeen years later a mining heiress disappears in the north west, pulling Snowy and Broome detective Dan Clement back onto the trail of a patient, dangerous killer.

In mid sixties Sydney, homicide detective John Gordon and arson investigator Ray Shearer hunt a series of brutal murders tied to Kings Cross vice, church power and old crimes. As the investigation deepens, both men are forced to confront secrets that threaten to destroy their own lives.

Back in his hometown of Broome after burnout in Perth homicide and a failed marriage, DI Dan Clement expects small town policing. When a man is found dead near a crocodile creek and more bodies follow, a looming cyclone turns a cold case into a desperate race for answers.

Thornton Downs riding academy is facing ruin after a lawsuit, so diva movie horse Leila returns to Hollywood to make a film that might save the school. Charlotte joins her on set, where a kidnapped co star and constant backstage sabotage turn the shoot into a mystery only friends can solve.

Outback rider Charlotte dreams of the Junior Olympic Equestrian Squad but finds scheming classmates and a sceptical headmistress at her new academy. When kidnapped Hollywood horse Leila arrives and reveals she can talk, girl and star must learn to trust each other to beat the bullies and chase their dreams.

Now part of the elite Junior Olympic squad, Charlotte juggles tougher training, the spiteful Evil Three and a new friendship with Hannah. Sent away to a deportment academy, she returns to discover Leila has been sold to a shady showman and must mount a risky rescue to save her best friend.

Andrew Lizard Zirk heads to an Indonesian island resort for a lazy break with his glamorous chauffeur, sharing it with a hard drinking Aussie soccer team. When ominous accidents turn to murder, Zirk must sort out team rivalries and resort secrets before the holiday becomes a death trap.

Fresh out of prison, Rick Boski plans to go straight by franchising a chain of prison themed cafes. After borrowing from a paranoid drug dealer and having his ex wife clean out his account, he is pitched into a chaotic road trip where an expensive coffee machine becomes deadly leverage.

Invited to a prestigious short film festival by provocative director Buzz Shaw, retired rock star Andrew Zirk expects glamour, not corpses. When Buzz is found strangled with a roll of film, Zirk and his chauffeur Fleur sift jealous actors, producers and hangers on to uncover who wrote the final scene.

Reclusive former rock star Andrew Lizard Zirk reluctantly attends a tribute party for notorious musician Sydney Melbourne. By night’s end Sydney and his roadie are dead, and Zirk finds himself using his insider knowledge of the music scene to untangle grudges, groupies and greed in a sharp, funny whodunnit.

Cricket's Hall of Shame takes a cheeky tour through the sport’s most embarrassing moments, from calamitous run outs and dropped sitters to off field scandals. Packed with anecdotes and odd facts, it offers a fan’s eye view of the game at its most human and fallible.

Edited by Dave Warner, Great Australian Bites gathers short pieces that showcase offbeat Australian humour, sharp observations and tall tales. It is a dip in, dip out collection for readers who enjoy quick, quirky slices of local life rather than a single long narrative.

Footy's Hall of Shame rummages through Australian Rules football’s most cringe worthy episodes, highlighting on field blunders, finals meltdowns, recruiting disasters and off field mischief. The result is a lively, anecdote rich alternative history that lets fans laugh at the game they love.

Set in 1979 Perth, City of Light follows young constable Snowy Lane as a serial killer nicknamed Mr Gruesome stalks the city during an era of pub bands and overnight millionaires. The case drags Snowy into politics, corruption and his own coming of age over the turbulent decade that follows.