Detective Dave Burrows Books in Order

Acting head of the stock squad while Bob Holden battles melanoma, Dave expects a routine trip to the bush. Instead, coordinated bomb blasts rock the small town of Kallygarn, dragging them into a dangerous search for whoever is targeting the community.

Newly divorced and restricted to brief supervised visits with his young daughters, Dave throws himself into work. On Leo Perry’s remote farm, a fuel explosion triggers a wildfire and a missing-person case, drawing Dave and Bob into an investigation where nothing is as it seems.

Still reeling from family tragedy and a crumbling marriage, Dave heads north with partner Bob Holden to investigate suspected sheep stealing. A tropical storm strands them at a coastal station where bodies, drugs and desperate people turn a routine job into a fight for survival.

Early in his career at Barrabine, Dave juggles a soaring caseload with a young family and a hostile father-in-law. An undercover operation targeting illegal stock trading offers a way to prove himself, but one wrong step could cost him everything.

Undercover detective Dave Burrows realises brutal stock thieves have discovered his identity, putting Mel and the kids at risk. Back in Barrabine, he’s torn between the job he loves and the family who may need him to walk away.

Recovering from a harrowing undercover job, Dave returns to Perth and a marriage under strain. Sent north to investigate stock theft, he walks into a simmering feud between stations where old disappearances, racial tensions and a vengeful enemy converge.

Farmer Emma Cameron pours herself into Deception Creek, trying to outrun trauma and a bitter divorce. When notorious local Joel Hammond is released from prison, tensions in Barker flare and Dave Burrows must untangle small-town loyalties, cybercrime and the threat circling Emma.

Concert pianist Chelsea Taylor returns reluctantly to Barker with her daughter, hoping to mend fences with the father who once told her never to come back. When bones surface in the riverbed, Dave Burrows’ investigation forces the family to confront long-buried secrets.

Brianna Donahue’s mother vanished from their coastal farm years ago. Now her young son goes missing amid bushfire danger and a failing marriage. Hundreds of kilometres away, Dave Burrows probes a sheep theft that may connect to Brianna’s past in unexpected ways.

City journalist Zara Ellison rushes home to Barker after a worrying message from her mother. Reporting on farm accidents and activist clashes pulls her close to Dave Burrows and Jack Higgins, until she witnesses Jack cross a line and must decide whether to expose him.

Newly posted to Barrabine in 1997, rookie detective Dave Burrows relishes outback policing, but his new wife Mel feels marooned. As he investigates trespassers, missing people and volatile gold prospectors, one phone call from the bush uncovers a crime more brutal than expected.

In 1990, twenty-three-year-old Dave Burrows returns from agricultural college brimming with ideas to modernise the family farm. His father’s hostility and his brothers’ favouritism spark a bitter showdown that sends Dave down a very different path than the one he’d imagined.