Secrets in the Sand

A Jodi Brennan Australian Outback Crime Thriller

By: Phillip Strang

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer

Detective Jodi Brennan thought Wirramurra Bay would be the peaceful posting she needed after exposing corruption in Adelaide. She was wrong.

When beloved postmistress Agnes Whitmore dies of apparent natural causes, the coastal town mourns a pillar of the community. Then, handyman Tom Mitchell is found murdered at an abandoned quarry—and the connection between the deaths reveals secrets forty years buried.

Tom's renovation work uncovered hidden love letters and a birth certificate that challenges everything the town believed about the respected Fairweather family. Tom was searching for his father. Someone killed him to stop that search.

As Jodi investigates, she uncovers a web of deception spanning generations: affairs, abandoned children, and family reputations built on lies. Tom's gambling debts brought dangerous creditors to Wirramurra Bay. But it was his questions about the past that got him killed.

With the Fairweather family's carefully constructed image crumbling and the community closing ranks to protect their own, Jodi must navigate small-town loyalties while pursuing a killer who's already proven that some secrets are worth murder.

In a place where everyone knows everyone's business but chooses what to reveal, the truth about family can be the deadliest secret of all.