Before It Breaks

Winner: 2016 Australian Crime Writers Association, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel 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 must pursue it as a decades-old mystery begins to unravel and a monster cyclone brews on the horizon.

Dave Warner is the author of nine novels, including City of Light which won the West Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction. He is also the author of six non-fiction titles, and has written for feature film, stage, television, radio, and newspapers. He originally gained national recognition as a musician-songwriter. His nine albums include the gold album Mug’s Game. In 1992 he was the inaugural inductee into the West Australian Rock’n’Roll Hall of Renown.