**Winner, WA Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer 2023****Winner, Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2021****Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction 2022**Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to sc...

Lachlan's younger brother Toby has gone missing in the remote East Pilbara region of Western Australia. The last thing he heard was that Toby was in a little town out in the arse-end of nowhere, a tiny place called Jasper Cliff. When Lachlan's car breaks down on the edge of the Cliff, he finds himself marooned at the local pub, surrounded by a cohort of ragtag locals. Lachlan isn't stuck at the Cliff long before he realises just about everyone in this dying town has lost someone, that Jasp...

Winner of The 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished ManuscriptGarreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to he...