Gil is surrounded by wilderness, but there's no place to hide because his enemies have most of the town on their side, and they know that the one thing most punishing would be harming the few people he cares about. Kris's alibi might have saved him from a murder charge but her dedication to finding the truth has made her a target. He's made too many enemies in the Sydney Mafia and amongst corrupt cops. And the sergeant's fiery tenacity stirs his blood. But there's a teenager here who has his eyes - a daughter he never knew existed. Gil isn't used to feeling anything for anyone. She does know he's not guilty of this murder, though, because she is his alibi. Wearied by too many deaths and doubting her own skills, local police sergeant Kris Mathews isn't sure whether Gil is a decent man wronged by life, or a hardened criminal she should lock up. They've considered him a murderer for eighteen years, so no one in Dungirri is surprised when 'Gil' Gillespie returns and a woman's body is found in his car. Dark Country was voted Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel by the Australian Romance Readers Association. Prior to publication, the manuscript won the Romance Writers of America 2007 Golden Heart Award, for best unpublished Romantic Suspense.From the international award-winning Australian writer Bronwyn Parry comes a gripping novel of love and suspense - the second in her Dungirri series. Their mutual attraction leaves them both vulnerable to their private nightmares – nightmares the killer ruthlessly exploits.Īs Darkness Falls was a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award 2009, in the Romantic Elements category. It soon becomes a game of cat and mouse, with Bella firmly in the killer’s sights.įor Bella, this case is already personal for Alec, his best intentions to keep it purely professional soon dissolve, and his anguish over Bella’s safety moves beyond the concern for a colleague. They have only days to find the girl alive, with few clues, a town full of suspects, and a vast wilderness to search.

Haunted by her failures, Detective Isabelle O’Connell is recalled to duty by DCI Alec Goddard to investigate the abduction of yet another child from her home town.

( Hachette Australia September, 2008 Piatkus UK, September 2009 Blanvalet, Germany, Spring 2010) About the book: The town and some of the characters in this book appear in future books, but this is a complete story and can stand alone.

Series note: As Darkness Falls is set in a small town called Dungirri, and is chronologically the first book in the loosely-linked Dungirri series.

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