Böcker av Kerry McGinnis

A serial killer is roaming the outback roads of Australia's top end in Kerry McGinnis's new rural mystery ' There's a killer roaming the roads and you're out here on your own, picking up strangers ... ' When Emily's beautiful cousin Aspen goes missing somewhere in the Outback, no one seems to take it seriously, not even the police. After all, Aspen has a history of drug use and a string of broken relationships to her name. Emily knows that her disappearance is totally out of character, even for the family's wild child, so she books a flight to the Northern Territory to find her. Emily's search takes her south of Darwin to every road stop and tourist trap she can find, but the only person who turns up is the last person she expected to see, her ex-husband Ben. But there is a violent killer on the loose, a man the media have dubbed ' The Outback Killer' - and after two brazen attempts on Emily's life, it soon becomes clear that someone wants Emily gone too, someone who is willing to do anything to stop her following Aspen's tracks.

Marric, reluctant heir to the throne of Appella has escaped his uncle's vengeful attempts to kill him. In his home country of Rhuta he joins a Trading company which, unbeknown to him, is fomenting rebellion against his tyrannical uncle to put a supposedly legitimate heir on the throne. Inevitably he is drawn into their toils, placing his life once again in peril. His visions, absent for years, return with disturbing messages. Dare he ignore them? Or, in so doing will he bring about the downfall of everything his friends and countrymen have worked for?

Taba's idyllic childhood in the Golden City of Ripa is abruptly ended when her cousin, the Princess Leona, is pronounced an Oracle of the great god Bel - her body and soul forever sacred to the god, and Him alone. But worse is to come when the warrior King Cyrus invades their peaceful, bustling city. Left in the hands of the king's elder son, Smerdis, the city - although forever altered - resumes its relatively peaceful existence. Taba is able to wed her childhood sweetheart, Tomas, and starts to dream again of a bright future together.Leona, however, becomes unwisely tangled with Smerdis. An offence against Bel which could provoke His righteous wrath on the city and a decision that even her own kin would consider a death warrant.Leona's mistake threatens not only her own life but will set off a chain of calamitous events that will decimate her own family and cause Taba to flee in a deadly and desperate bid to save the life of a child who is destined to become King. Can even the Goddess save them now?