Greg Bowker

IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S. Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'. He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family history hides a secret he cannot resist investigating. A subsequent disappearance and murder set a new challenge for the young officer that leads him down a path into an unspeakable world of darkness and deception

IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S. Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'. He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family history hides a secret he can't resist investigating. A subsequent disappearance and murder set a new challenge for the young officer and leads him down a path into an unspeakable world of darkness and deception. Purgatory may well reside within the quiet town... "A stylish and enthralling thriller set amongst the dust and hardship of a small country town that extends to the characters within...great reading..." Alan, IndieBook Reviewer

Thirty-one years ago, Bowker solved the brutal murder of a teenage schoolgirl as a senior constable in the one-copper Mallee town of Manangatang. Now, he must return to the area to investigate another killing. The victim: the original killer, who had just been released, following his lengthy prison sentence. The scene of the crime: the exact location the schoolgirl had been murdered years earlier. Bowker is sure the two murders are connected. With his knowledge from the previous case, compiling his first list of suspects proves initially straightforward. Despite the familiarity of the case, however, there is a whole new set of challenges. Ultimately he must ask-are there others involved...?

Greg Bowker is back with a new murder mystery to be solved... Detective Inspector Greg Bowker must travel to the town of his childhood to investigate the murder of an elderly man, one who happens to be Greg's old school teacher. His visit reignites boyhood memories of he and his younger brother discovering a blood-covered body on the slopes of a stony, scrubby hill known to those in the area as the Granite. As the investigation evolves, Bowker and his partner become convinced that the old teacher's demise is somehow linked to the death of the man on the Granite almost four decades prior. But are their instincts correct?

Homicide detective Greg Bowker's wife Rachael is visiting a friend in the seaside town of Port Fairy when she is physically assaulted by her abusive first husband, Trevor Flynn, who is running a dubious housing development beside the nearby lough. Incensed when informed of the assault, Bowker travels to the town, promising anyone who will listen that he's there to settle the 'Flynn problem' once and for all. When Flynn's shark ravaged body washes up on the rocks and forensics indicate he's been murdered, Bowker's name immediately goes into the frame. He is suspended from duty and forced to take leave while his colleagues investigate Flynn's demise. Did Bowker kill Flynn? And can he stay at arm's length from a case where he is the number one suspect??