The Maya Thorne Australian Outback Series: Books 13 to 18

The Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller Series Boxset

Six gripping Australian outback mysteries. One determined detective. Justice that comes at a cost.

Detective Maya Thorne has built her career solving crimes in the harsh Australian outback, where secrets run as deep as the ancient aquifers and justice doesn't always mean resolution. This complete collection brings together six standalone mysteries that can be read in any order—each a self-contained investigation, each revealing new depths of rural noir.

HARDENED EVIDENCE (Book 13) Drought-hardened clay preserves a decades-old crime scene, forcing Maya to uncover truths that powerful families would rather keep buried.

FATAL FREQUENCIES (Book 14) A beloved radio host is found strangled in the community broadcasting station. The digital recording system captured everything—except the killer's identity.

LOCUST MOON (Book 15) A biblical plague of locusts strips the landscape bare, exposing both a hidden body and a $15 million agricultural fraud network that reaches across five states.

BLOOD CLAIM (Book 16) A veterinary nurse's staged suicide reveals family secrets hidden beneath a respectable facade, where love equals control and pregnancy becomes a death sentence.

TERMINAL BORE (Book 17) A water compliance officer's body in an abandoned bore shaft leads Maya to an $8.7 million fraud network—and the devastating realization that solving individual murders doesn't stop systemic crimes.

FERAL GROUND (Book 18) Four hunters. One fatal shot in the darkness. Despite exhaustive investigation, Maya faces her first unsolvable case where the truth remains legally inaccessible despite moral certainty.

From locust plagues to underground aquifer crimes, from radio station murders to hunting accidents that weren't accidents, Maya Thorne pursues justice in a landscape as unforgiving as the criminals she hunts. But in the Australian outback, solving the crime is only half the battle—living with the limitations of justice is the other half.

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and atmospheric crime fiction where the landscape is as much a character as the detective.