Sunburnt Silence

A Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller

By: Phillip Strang

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Someone turned off his cooling. Then they watched him die.

When local mechanic Frank Miller is found dead in his workshop during Warragulla's worst heatwave on record, it looks like the heat finally claimed a victim. But Detective Maya Thorne sees what others missed: the sabotage was deliberate. Someone wanted Frank to cook.

Frank was meticulous. He kept records — dates, names, transactions stretching back decades. Now those records are missing, and the people who last saw them aren't talking.

As temperatures climb past fifty degrees and an apocalyptic dust storm bears down on the region, Maya follows a trail leading back to the same powerful families who've controlled Warragulla for generations. Frank knew something about what had happened on their land. He wrote it down. And someone killed him for it.

The storm will bury everything — the evidence, the truth, maybe Maya herself.

In Warragulla, the heat doesn't just kill. It reveals.

For fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher.

Book 3 in the Maya Thorne series.