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Dave Warner

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in Bicton, Australia

Website

http://davewarner.com.au/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Children's Books, Sports

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Henning Mankell, Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy

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Dave Warner is the author of thirteen crime novels, including the winner of the 1996 WA Premier’s Award for Fiction (City of Light) and the 2016 Ned Kelly winner of Best Australian Crime Fiction (Before it Breaks). He has also written a children's book series and seven non-fiction titles, and screenwritten for film and TV.

Dave Warner originally gained national recognition as a musician-songwriter in the late 1970s with Bob Dylan referring to Dave and Richard Clapton as his “favourite Australian artists”.
As early as 1973 Dave had formed Australia’s first punk band, Pus, playing early versions of tracks such as Suburban Boy and Hot Crotch which he was later to record with Dave Warner’s from the Suburbs. In 1975, Dave went to London and wrot ...more

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	Before it Breaks (Dan Clement, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When It Rains 3.92 avg rating — 412 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clear to the Horizon (Dan Clement, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the Flood (Dan Clement, #4) 3.83 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Light (Dan Clement, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Salt 3.91 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of Blood 3.47 avg rating — 192 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Over My Dead Body 3.77 avg rating — 120 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Bad Blood 4.07 avg rating — 97 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exxxpresso 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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'DOUBLE EXXXPRESSO' - Dave Warner - COMING SOON

My fourteenth crime novel `Double Exxxpresso' will be published August 29.

In Australia you will be able to get hard copies via my website and that of publisher, Ligature. You can also download the Ebook via Ligature. The usual big, on-line distributors will also be carrying the ebook for local and international fans.

So what's it about? Well, my fifth crime novel `Exxxpresso' that came out back in

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First Billingham I've read. He's rated highly by fellow crime authors so I dipped into this one - gritty, great veracity in character and dialogue and the idea of a mentally unstable `inmate' as a detective gives it a point of difference to most. The ...more
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Dave Warner and 15 other people liked Susan's review of Singing in the Shrouds: "This is the twentieth novel in the Roderick Alleyn series, published in 1959. I have found Ngaio Marsh to be quite inconsistent – some of her mysteries are excellent and others not nearly so good. This is one of the better ones, with a good opening. " Read more of this review »
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“My old Corona sat in front of the majestic iron gates of 4 Gwendolin Close, Dalkeith, like herpes on a beauty queen’s mouth”
― Dave Warner, City of Light

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“He had begun to accept the background noise of the falls was no natural phenomenon but rather the thundering tears of gods.”
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“The woman at reception was anywhere between thirty-eight and fifty-eight. Country skin puckering, mouth drooping like she’d been passed over for Bowls Club Treasurer.”
― Dave Warner, Exxxpresso

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“My old Corona sat in front of the majestic iron gates of 4 Gwendolin Close, Dalkeith, like herpes on a beauty queen’s mouth”
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“Where do you live, where do we live where is our home? Under this tree, over the mountains, and beyond, the sky, a time-rider. Dancing colours! Life was more surrealistic, this short life than death, death was natural, not the other way round.--Mehreen Ahmed, Incandescence.”
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