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Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books Books in Order

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Browse the Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller books by Phillip Strang in order, with summaries, series background, and starting guidance.

Last updated: July 14, 2026

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Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books books in publication order

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18 books

1

Broken Fences

by Phillip Strang

2025

A boundary dispute in the outback escalates into something deadly. Maya Thorne follows the breach from broken fences to old resentments and dangerous land politics.

2

Dust and Bones

by Phillip Strang

2025

Bones surface in the Australian outback, where Maya Thorne investigates a crime hidden for decades. Isolated communities and a hostile landscape make every answer hard won.

3

Ember Grave

by Phillip Strang

2025

Fire has destroyed evidence in the outback, but Maya Thorne suspects the blaze was no accident. She must uncover what someone was willing to burn away.

4

Fatal Frequencies

by Phillip Strang

2025

Outback radio is a lifeline until its frequencies carry something deadly. Maya Thorne investigates a crime exploiting the fragile connections that keep remote communities alive.

5

Final Stretch

by Phillip Strang

2025

On the long straight roads of the outback, Maya Thorne pursues a case that pushes her to the limit. Distance becomes danger as the final clues emerge.

6

Forgotten Bones

by Phillip Strang

2025

Maya Thorne investigates more deliberately buried remains in remote Australia. The dead have returned, and a community's carefully protected past begins to break apart.

7

Fractured Signals

by Phillip Strang

2025

When communication fails in the outback, Maya Thorne investigates in near isolation. Lost signals become both an obstacle and a clue in a dangerous missing-person case.

8

Hardened Evidence

by Phillip Strang

2025

Sun, wind, and red dust are erasing a crime scene. Maya Thorne races to preserve the evidence before the outback destroys the case for good.

9

Last Orders

by Phillip Strang

2025

A killing after last orders at an outback pub forces Maya Thorne to examine the place where alliances form, grudges surface, and everybody hears the news.

10

Prescription for Murder

by Phillip Strang

2025

Maya Thorne investigates lethal abuse of power in a remote community dependent on limited health care. Proving the crime is as difficult as surviving the isolation.

11

Shotgun Council

by Phillip Strang

2025

Maya Thorne investigates a killing a remote community claims was justified. Local ideas of justice collide with the law as she searches for the full story.

12

Shrouded Legacy

by Phillip Strang

2025

Maya Thorne investigates a remote community whose unsettled history has produced new violence. Land, ownership, and years of silence shape a case nobody wants reopened.

13

Sunburnt Silence

by Phillip Strang

2025

Maya Thorne enters an outback case built on silence, where nobody says enough and the vast landscape conceals violence, grief, and the clues she needs.

14

The Sheep's Back

by Phillip Strang

2025

A murder rooted in the pastoral industry brings Maya Thorne into a world of wool, inheritance, and feuds that have shaped an outback community for generations.

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Blood Claim

by Phillip Strang

2026

A dispute over inherited land turns deadly in the outback. Maya Thorne investigates what families will do to hold on to a property and its history.

16
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Feral Ground

by Phillip Strang

2026

Maya Thorne works at the edge of the law's reach in feral country, where isolation gives dangerous people room to make their own rules.

17
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Locust Moon

by Phillip Strang

2026

After a locust plague devastates an outback community, Maya Thorne finds destruction has exposed a secret someone was desperate to keep hidden.

18
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Terminal Bore

by Phillip Strang

2026

A crime at an artesian bore puts Maya Thorne in a landscape where water is power. Controlling the supply may also mean controlling who survives.

Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Dust and Bones"

    Dust and Bones

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Forgotten Bones"

    Forgotten Bones

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Sunburnt Silence"

    Sunburnt Silence

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Ember Grave"

    Ember Grave

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Fractured Signals"

    Fractured Signals

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Shrouded Legacy"

    Shrouded Legacy

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Final Stretch"

    Final Stretch

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Shotgun Council"

    Shotgun Council

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "Broken Fences"

    Broken Fences

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "The Sheep's Back"

    The Sheep's Back

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Last Orders"

    Last Orders

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "Prescription for Murder"

    Prescription for Murder

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "Hardened Evidence"

    Hardened Evidence

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "Fatal Frequencies"

    Fatal Frequencies

    by Phillip Strang

    2025Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "Locust Moon"

    Locust Moon

    by Phillip Strang

    2026Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "Blood Claim"

    Blood Claim

    by Phillip Strang

    2026Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "Terminal Bore"

    Terminal Bore

    by Phillip Strang

    2026Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 17
  18. Book cover for "Feral Ground"

    Feral Ground

    by Phillip Strang

    2026Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Books, Book 18

Series background & context

Phillip Strang's Maya Thorne series follows a detective working across the vast Australian outback. Maya investigates murders and disappearances in country where the nearest town may be hours away, communications can fail, and a crime scene can be damaged by sun, wind, fire, or dust before anyone reaches it.

Maya is often an outsider in close-knit communities that have their own rules and long memories. She has to win information from people who do not necessarily trust the police, while dealing with disputes over land, water, inheritance, farming, health care, and local power. The cases show how an old secret can become deadly when it finally surfaces.

The setting creates much of the tension. Roads run straight for miles, radio signals drop out, and physical survival can depend on decisions that would barely matter in a city. Maya uses patient investigation, local detail, and stubbornness to keep a case moving when the country itself seems to erase the evidence.

Justice runs thin out here.

Begin with Dust and Bones, where human remains found in the outback introduce the series' core concerns: isolation, hidden history, and communities guarding their own. Continue with Forgotten Bones and Sunburnt Silence. The series is best read in order, since Maya's world develops across the books, though each novel also offers a distinct crime and a new part of the outback.

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