Detective Dave Burrows Books in Order

After her husband dies in a light-plane crash, Gemma Sinclair inherits vast Billbinya Station and rumours he was involved in stock theft. As police probe the crash, Gemma must defend the property, clear her name and decide whether to risk trusting – and loving – again.

Amanda Greenfield comes home armed with an agribusiness degree and big ideas to save Kyleena, her family’s failing farm. After her mother dies in a crash and her father wants to sell, Amanda battles grief, weather and finances to prove the land – and she – can recover.

Childhood sweethearts Anna and Matt Butler have worked hard for their own farm, but drought, debt and a serious accident push them to the brink. As mysterious incidents escalate, the couple discover their fight to survive is tangled up with far bigger criminal stakes.

London marketing executive Tessa Mathison returns to remote Danjar Plains for her great-aunt’s funeral, only to lose her job and inherit a complicated outback legacy. An unusual request in the will, a charming neighbour and buried family secrets all challenge her plans to flee again.

Running her family’s station Nambina, Laura Murphy also teaches women the practical skills of life on the land. A legal claim threatens to take the property from her, reopening wounds with former friend Meghan and ex-boyfriend Josh, and forcing Laura to finally ask for help.

Back home from university, Amelia Bennett is proud to manage the rodeo committee’s finances. After a terrifying roadside robbery steals the takings, gossip fingers her and boyfriend Paul. To clear them both, she works with a sceptical rural detective to hunt down the culprits.

After the accidental shooting of his best mate, Fiona Forrest’s husband takes his own life, leaving her to keep their prosperous farm going. When Dave Burrows re-examines the case, odd details and a run of disasters suggest the deaths may hide something far more sinister.

Escaping her controlling husband, Ashleigh disappears into the outback and reinvents herself as Eliza in the tiny town of Blinman. Drawn to a ruined homestead and its 19th-century mystery, she must face both past and present when her husband finally tracks her down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1980, heavily pregnant Rose Kelly heads to a remote shearing job with her drifter husband. Forty years later, a drug arrest in Barker raises more questions than answers. As Zara Ellison digs, Dave Burrows uncovers links between that long-ago shearing season and present-day crime.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Called home by news that her beloved grandmother is ill, Sassi Stapleton crashes her car and arrives too late to say goodbye. Her estranged mother Amber also returns from overseas, and under one tense roof the family must finally face the secrets that drove them apart.

Hallie Donaldson, a fashion influencer turned station wife, struggles with isolation in the Flinders Ranges. When her husband dies in a windmill fall and another of his old college mates is killed, Hallie’s suspicions send Dave Burrows and Mia Worth digging into a deadly pattern of “accidents”.

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.