Twenty-four murders. Two worlds. One reporter who always gets there first.
Della Marsh was the best crime reporter in Melbourne — until she wasn't. Three years on Phillip Island later, notebook in hand, she discovers that the dead have a way of demanding attention whether she is ready for them or not.
In Volume One — Small Island Murders — twelve murders across Phillip Island's most distinctive locations draw Della back into the work she thought she'd left behind. The Penguin Parade boardwalk at dawn. The Saturday farmers market. The Nobbies in the fog. A honey farm where a man left his door unlocked and his epipen locked in his truck. Twelve crimes, twelve island worlds, one reporter whose instincts never switch off.
In Volume Two — Melbourne Murders — Della returns to the city on a three-month secondment to The Age's crime desk and finds Melbourne killing for her attention. The legal precinct. The Theatre Royal. The Queen Victoria Market after dark. The steps of Flinders Street station. Twelve crimes, twelve Melbourne worlds, and a royal commission are triggered before she boards the plane home.
Twenty-four stories. The complete Della Marsh Notebook Series in a single collection.
The dead don't always lie. Sometimes they wait.
