Nancy Bevington – illustratör

Lucky Shoemaker loves being a detective and solving mysteries of very strange crimes. She once solved the mystery of the holes that had been stolen. Now she has a new mystery that is just as baffling. Someone is taking people''s time, time that has been saved has disappeared and time that been unaccountably lost. Then all the clocks in the neighbourhood just simply stopped. Who was behind this mystery? Could the culprit be the strange Mr Grimm who is always around when no one has any time of their own anymore?

Did he take the time Lucky''s father had saved in a bottle? What happened to the half time at the soccer match?

In the course of her investigations Lucky comes face to face with the mysterious Mr Grimm, just as he about to leave for Times Square (New York). Will the two detectives arrive in time to help Lucky prevent his escape?

This is a story for readers who like to go beyond the bounds of possibility.

After his marriage breaks up Shane''s father buys an old bush school property next to Clarry Johnson''s neglected orchard and Shane and his dad move there. It is an eerie, lonely, isolated place, far removed from Shane''s earlier life. Living in a small caravan in the deserted school grounds adds to Shane''s feeling of vulnerability.

There is something disturbing about the unneighbourly Clarry Johnson, and something even more disturbing about his strange teenage daughter, Ellie, who pushes a pram with a doll in it up and down the dirt road outside the abandoned school. What has prompted Ellie to persist in this macabre, daily routine?

After a number of unsettling incidents Shane''s father gets Shane an ex-police dog, Caddy, for protection and companionship. The old school has an ominous, secret history which Caddy begins to unearth by finding some grisly remains, but in doing so increases the dangers to which Shane will be exposed. And the hopes of Shane''s father for a new beginning are put under a very real threat.

Reviewers say:

Cadaver Dog is suspenseful, gripping and tense throughout and the writer''s vivid descriptions transfer the reader to the scene of the crime.

Kellie Christiansen, Belgian State School