The Maya Thorne Australian Outback Series: Books 1 to 6

The Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Series Boxset

She fled Warragulla at seventeen. Now she’s back—to dig up the secrets it never meant to share.

Detective Maya Thorne swore she'd never return to the remote outback town that broke her. But when environmental extremes start exposing bodies—and the crimes that put them there—Maya finds herself pulled back into Warragulla's dust and dysfunction, first reluctantly, then permanently.

Drought cracks open shallow graves. Floods unearth evidence that has been buried for decades. Extreme heat reveals what was meant to stay hidden. In a community where everyone knows everyone's secrets, including her estranged family's, Maya must navigate small-town politics and old grudges to find killers who thought the harsh landscape would keep their crimes buried forever.

Six investigations. Six environmental disasters. One detective confronting the past, she tried to escape.

This collection includes murders revealed by drought, flood, extreme heat, bushfire, and dust storms—cases where the unforgiving outback becomes both witness and accomplice. As Maya digs deeper into Warragulla's buried secrets, she discovers that in small towns, old grievances never truly die. They just wait for the right conditions to resurface.

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper's The Dry, atmospheric crime fiction, and methodical police procedurals that delve into the complexities of justice in an indifferent landscape.

Start the series that readers are calling "addictive Australian noir."