Dave Warner
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In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case. Clear to the Horizon is a nail-biting...
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Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome, the tropical town where he grew up, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town, inexperienced cops. But stagnation and lethargy soon give way to a case with urgent purpose. On the edge of the desert, a man is found dead in a crocodile-infested watering hole. And he is only the first. The connection between the victims is elusive, but Clement...
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A violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents – the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek mine site, social justice protests at an abattoir, a break-in at a childhealth care clinic – seem mundane by comparison. But as Clement starts to make troubling connections between each crime, he finds himself caught in...
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Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in, and there's a killer on the loose, slaying strangers who seem to have nothing in common. Is it simple good fortune that Georgette, who freelances for the NYPD, suddenly finds herself in the company of the greatest detective...
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In 1963, former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a tiny coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man running a club called the Surf Shack, and playing nights there with his surf music band, The Twang. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel, a matchbook from the Surf Shack on her bedside table. When Blake's friend is arrested for her murder and the local...
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Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of making the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible phone call that signals the beginning of a series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake the city to its foundations … 'Gruesome' has taken another victim and the whole population is riveted by the emergence of the dark side of the City of Light.
7) Artspresso
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Rick Boski and Goose Gordon are small-time crims who met twenty years ago in jail in Perth, Western Australia (in the Dave Warner novel Exxxpresso). After serving his time Rick fulfilled his dream to open a prison-themed cafe (Cafe Inside) and has been extremely successful over the intervening period. Goose has done well working for mining companies and both have been on the straight and narrow. But now there are two flies in the ointment: former...
8) Charity
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What would happen if an ordinary church-going mother found suddenly that she had miraculous healing powers? How would she and her family adapt to the change? What would society's attitude be to her? And what if the powers she possessed came at a cost, to her own family? These are the questions raised in my audio short-story Charity. This is not a big R religious story but it is a spiritual one. While I wrote it long before Covid became a reality it...
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A mix of narrative, music, poems, reflections and historic interviews narrated by me about all the influences that led to the ultimate recording of my 1978 album Mugs Game.
I grew up in the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated city in the world, yet harboured the dream of playing rock music like the Who, or the Beatles or the Doors. Garage bands progressed to songs: some introspective about my life as an adolescent in a sea of Laminex,...
10) Cabin Pressure
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A female air-marshal on an international fight receives a call from her HQ to inform her that there may be a bomb on board her plane. She has fifteen minutes to track it down. The story unfolds in real time as she attempts to track the bomber while using any spare minute to reflect on her life.
Narrated by the author Dave Warner.
11) The Dinner
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A short story with a dash of humour, contemporary, set in inner-Sydney. It's raining cats and dogs and Rick is being jabbed by the hot needle of panic. He's running late now after dashing out to get last minute dessert for the crucial dinner party tonight where Rick and wife Vanessa are entertaining Vanessa's boss and his wife. Rick carefully wheels his pride-and-joy, his almost-new Audi, around the block looking for a parking space. He'd had everything...
12) Dead Cert
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Small town solicitor and part-time turf club racing steward Magdalena Wray is based in the world famous surf and wine country of Margaret River, Western Australia. She finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery and uses her knowledge of horse-racing to help solve the case. Short-story, 27 minutes,
13) The Winner
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Max is determined to change his life around from Loser to Winner. Fat-boy Max has never been out of Australia. In fact, in his twenty-something years Max has never even been out of his home state but he is determined to change this. He wants to be visible, not just an invisible "fat guy" and he has found the perfect way to achieve his goals: lose weight AND get that trip overseas that he can't quite afford. If he puts all his savings into a Camp Invigorate...
14) Summer of Blood
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Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn't just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture.
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15) City of Light
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'Jesus Christ. I found one.' These words are blurted over the phone to Constable Snowy Lane, who is preoccupied with no more than a ham sandwich and getting a game with the East Fremantle league side on Saturday. They signal the beginning of a series of events that are to shake Perth to its foundations. It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. 'Mr. Gruesome' has just taken another victim. Snowy's life and career...
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Der Sensationserfolg aus Down Under und Gewinner des australischen Krimipreises 2016
Eigentlich wollte Detective Daniel Clement nie nach Broome zurückkehren. Dank seiner Exfrau ist er aber nun doch wieder hier, im australischen Nirgendwo, 2000 Kilometer entfernt von der nächsten Großstadt. Viel Zeit zum Eingewöhnen bleibt dem Detective nicht, denn in einem nahegelegenen Wasserloch wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Der zu Lebzeiten unauffällige Mann...
17) Restraint
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Lionsgate
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c2008
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English
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Two lovers seek a safe haven to hide out after a brutal crime has been committed. However, what they thought was an abandoned mansion is inhabited by a rich agoraphobic, who becomes their hostage. Or does he? Who is the victim in this threesome? Whatever you think is right is wrong.
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Distributed by KOCH Vision
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[2006]
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Claire and Tess, two sisters who were separated as children, are reunited when they inherit Drover's Run, a large Australian cattle property passed down for generations. Together they assemble an all-female workforce and face the challenges of the land.
19) Garage days
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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c2004
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English
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This garage band has everything that it takes to make it to the big time - everything that is except talent. Waiting for their big break, a group of young rockers and their clueless manager can't keep their heads on straight - or their hands off each other. Just goes to show you that you don't have to be a rock star to party like one.
20) Infinities
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Marvel Comics
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2015.
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English
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Offering a new way for fans to collect and read classic and iconic Star Wars stories across the past 35 years of published titles, the Epic Collections collect full, unbroken runs of Star Wars titles set in the Old Republic, the Galactic Empire, the Rebellion and more.