As Darkness Falls
By (Author) Bronwyn Parry
Hachette Australia
Hachette Australia
1st April 2009
Australia
General
Fiction
A823
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
310g
As Darkness Falls is set in the isolation of a small town on the edge of the New South Wales outback. Haunted by her failures, country police officer Detective Isabelle O'Connell is recalled to duty by Detective Alec Goddard to investigate the abduction of yet another child from her old home town. With the killer playing a game of cat and mouse and targeting Bella, they have only days in which to find the girl alive, but they have very few clues, a town filled with suspects, and a vast wilderness to search. For Bella, this case is already personal. For Alec, his best intentions to keep it purely professional soon dissolve as his anguish over Bella's safety moves beyond just his concern for a colleague. Their mutual attraction leaves them both vulnerable to their private nightmares - which the killer ruthlessly exploits.
This is a strong debut from an author who could be a future star of Australian romance. - Australian Bookseller and Publisher an impressive debut - The Australian Women's Weekly Bronwyn Parry does a fine job of bringing a small Australian bush town to life - AustCrimeFiction
Bronwyn Parry grew up surrounded by books, with a fascination for places, people and their stories. Her first novel, AS DARKNESS FALLS, won a prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award in 2007. Her second and third novels, DARK COUNTRY and DEAD HEAT, were voted the Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) in 2010 and 2013, and were both finalists in the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Romantic Suspense. Her fourth novel, DARKENING SKIES, was a finalist in the ARRA Awards in 2014. Bronwyn's fifth book, STORM CLOUDS, was shortlisted by ARRA for Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel of 2015 and shortlisted in the Davitt Awards for Best Crime Novel 2016. Bronwyn lives in the New England tablelands in New South Wales and loves to travel in Australia's wild places. For more information visit www.bronwynparry.com or www.facebook.com/BronwynParryAuthor