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Author of the Month
Digby Stevens
Digby is a Ballarat-based author known for his crime thrillers, particularly A Murder of Crows. His work explores the impacts of crime and policing on the community, set against the backdrop of the Royal Commission into Institutionalized Abuse.
Steven has a background as a teacher and has lived and taught in Ballarat for over thirty years. He is an artist, teacher, and lover of popular culture, with a particular interest in the works of Raymond Chandler and Ian Rankin. His writing often reflects his experiences and observations in the local Ballarat community…
Book of the Month
A Murder of Crows
Digby Stevens
Set against the backdrop of the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse and the effects on the community of Ballarat. A Murder of Crows charts the rampage of a killer determined to set the record straight.
Detective Jack Waters is called to a murder that has all the hallmarks of a stage show, by an unknown killer who seems determined to rewrite history and create his own ending to a story that has been drawn out for too long.
Recommeded Reads
The Secrets of Provence
Daisy Wood
Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave ,beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance movement.
Secrecy and subterfuge are her constant companions, where passions run high and betrayal is a continual threat. But Mathilde’s greatest pain and greatest joy are wrapped up in the most heartbreaking secret of all- one she must hide even from her beloved husband, and keep for the rest of her life.
Paris, present day, Juliette’s life should be perfect, with her bookshop established and her relationship feeling settled- but something just isn’t clicking.
Searching for more, an old photograph will lead Juliette to a beautiful, crumbling chateau. And there, she will uncover a story that will change her life forever.
The Quiet Kill
Robert Bryndza
Winter, 1987 Det Jamie Day arrives in London determined to prove himself. After years policing a quiet seaside town, his promotion to the Metropolitan Police feels like the opportunity he has been waiting for.
On his first day in plain clothes, Jamie makes a grim discovery: the dismembered body of a young man, left in a dark corner of the city. What should have been a routine first shift quickly becomes the beginning of a major murder investigation.
Then another victim is found ……..
Whistler
Ann Patchett
When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie-her former stepfather.
Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives.
Meeting again now, Daphne and Eddie feel that time has fallen away. Their earlier relationship was brief but had a profound impact, but they are ready to face the future.
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