* AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 * 'A master storyteller' - GUARDIAN 'A superb chronicler of cop
culture' - SUNDAY TIMES 'The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMES
THERE'S DANGER ON THE OPEN ROAD Summer is approaching on the Mornington Peninsula. The heat
is ramping up a drought has been forecast and Detective Inspector Hal Challis is already
recycling his shower water and dreading the upcoming holiday madness. But then he's called to
the sleepy town of Waterloo where there's something more to fear. Women are being abducted and
murdered their bodies found along the Old Highway. The media demand answers and with a team
who cause as much trouble as they solve Challis is under increasing pressure. But this
killer's business is far from over... From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of
Consolation and Day's End comes the first Hal Challis investigation for readers of Jane Harper
Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.