TALLMAN’S VALLEY DETECTIVES series
A group of small-town homicide and missing-persons detectives solve horrific, complex crimes.
Senior Detective Sergeants Kate Wakeland, Jace Franco and Reagan Grimshaw head the police crew. Set in the stunning region of Australia’s Blue Mountains, NSW.
The Tallman’s Valley book series is currently being shopped for TV&Film by Hollywood producer, Josh Berman, (2025).
The first book, ONE LAST CHILD, won an Audiofile Earphones Award for the brilliant narration of Caroline Lee. The story has garnered over 9000 positive reviews across Amazon and Audible and has been in the top 100 of the US, UK, Australian and Canadian Amazon.
The books of this series can each be read as a standalone but are best read in sequence.
1: ONE LAST CHILD
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Five long-missing children are about to be returned
All except for one last child – Ivy – the granddaughter of Detective Kate Wakeland.
Who stole five small children from a daycare picnic and why did they keep them for three long years? And what happened to the fifth child?
Detective Kate Wakeland was prevented from investigating the case before by the superintendent. But now she’ll be relentless in tracking the kidnappers across the high country of Australia’s Blue Mountains.
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2: THE LULLABY MAN
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The Lullaby Man knows all your secrets. But you can’t guess his.
A decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman’s Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love.
Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she’s found the courage to tell her mother – Senior Detective Kate Wakeland – about what happened. The Lullaby Man was her teacher.
What Abby reveals next will lead Kate down dark, twisting tunnels of discoveries that will blow this small town apart.
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3: THE SILENT TOWN
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A silent town lurks beneath the pretty, rural streets of Tallman’s Valley
Detective Kate Wakeland senses the dark undercurrents. But just as she begins her investigation, a shocking multiple shooting of a family occurs on the mountain that bookends the valley – Witness Mountain.
The height of a devastating fire season hinders Kate and her team at every turn.
And the dangers are far greater than the raging bushfires. The shooting murders are connected to the silent town. There are people who will kill to conceal what they know and what they’ve don
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4: THE BURNING ROOMS
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A serial killer with a burning desire
In the country town of Tallmans Valley, an arsonist is burning homes down. Their signature move is placing an identical model of the house on the front porch before setting the fire. But no one is there to witness this in the quiet of each dark winter night.
The fires are deemed tragic accidents. Detective Jace Franco is the only one of his team to become certain a twisted killer is at work.
In dogged pursuit of the arsonist, Franco risks destroying his life and career
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