Fleur McDonald 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.

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”.

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.

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.

Rookie constable Mia is thrilled to be posted back to her home town, until sexism on the force and her grandmother’s dementia take their toll. When a child goes missing, Dave Burrows recognises Mia’s instincts and gives her a chance to prove herself.

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.

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.

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.

On Farmer Rochelle’s busy farm, the cow moos and the sheep baas, but the horse insists on copying the chickens. A warm, funny picture book about animal sounds, problem-solving and helping a confused horse find the right voice at last.

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.

Teacher Lauren Ramsey fights to protect a vulnerable boy at school, missing the signs that her own daughter Skye is struggling. Teenage Skye finds an ally in shop manager Tamara, whose buried history mirrors their questions about identity, family and the secrets that shape them.

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.

Set decades before Suddenly One Summer, this short prequel follows three-year-old Brianna Donahue on the day her mother Josie vanishes from their family farm. As police search the property and nearby travellers, the unexplained disappearance casts a shadow that will haunt Brianna’s future.

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.

Farmer Hayden just wants a good night’s sleep, but the farmyard chorus of moos, baas, neighs and howls keeps him wide awake. This playful bedtime story follows his increasingly funny attempts to find quiet in a very noisy country night.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.