Short Stories

The little branch library at Craghaven is one of the last remaining non-computerised libraries in the Western World. When one of its volunteers is found dead on duty in suspicious circumstances, her colleague follows the trail to the local Men’s Shed and beyond.

Olivia Marchand came to the Sapphire Coast to heal herself, but when she finds an injured creature she must shift her attention to helping others. This is a story about destructiveness, healing, and finding artistic inspiration in unlikely places.

Guests are turning up dead in a holiday park on the north coast of Tasmania. The proprietor has been expanding the business, in a brave decision after her husband passed away, and the stain of murder is the last thing she needs.

Katrina, a country girl attending university in the early 1990s, goes out for a night in the city with another young woman from the rooming house where they live. This early story became the basis for a novel in which the events lead to murder.

In this early story, a recently divorced man drives through a regional landscape, trying to decide what direction in life to take. He stays at motor inns and detours to quirky tourist attractions which remind him of his two young daughters. A man-made lake might hold the key to his fate.