Dark Country

Catherine Lee

Mar 2026 · Detective Charlie Cooper Mysteries Book 6 · Bolinda · Narrated by Dominic Gruenewald

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Anna Walsh is fed up with country life. Raised by one farming family, and married into another, she is one of Riverhaven's favourite daughters – and she hates it. Anna and her husband have secret plans to escape the life they inherited but never wanted. Then murder comes to town. A poultry farmer is found strung up by his feet, electrocuted, his throat slashed – murdered in the same brutal fashion as the chickens on his farm every day. The locals are horrified, and all fingers point to the new arrivals in town – animal activists. The group had seemed peaceful enough when they set up camp by the river. But suspicions grow as more acts of violence plague the once peaceful community. With their escape now on hold, Anna and her husband fear for her missing father-in-law. Locals assume he went bush to get over the sudden death of his wife, but Anna isn't so sure. Has the animal-rights group taken its fight against cruelty to a murderous level? Or is this sleepy rural paradise hiding a darker secret?

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Catherine Lee is an Australian author of fast-paced, mostly clean, crime fiction. The Detective Charlie Cooper Mysteries tackle topical issues with mostly Sydney-based crimes at their heart. The Getaway Bay Cozy Mysteries feature a charming collection of eccentric locals and visitors working their way through an alphabet of cosy crimes. Lost, the 2nd instalment in Lee's Detective Bonnie Hunter series set in rural Australia, is due out in 2026.

Dominic Gruenewald is a Melbourne-based actor. He graduated from Actors Centre Australia in 2018 and quickly forged a prosperous career in Sydney's Shakespearean scene, playing Iago with 63 Globes (2019) and Orsino/Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Bar'd Work's sell-out season of The Shakesbeer Sessions: Twelfth Night (2019). Other highlights include appearing in Immersive Cinema's Dirty Dancing, and Underground Cinema's FBI. As a voice artist, Dominic has narrated titles such as Faking It by Toby Walsh, High Rise by Gabriel Bergmoser and The Anatomy of Gods by Megan White.

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