Thank you to Fremantle Press for this book in exchange for an honest review

Synopsis:

In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case. Clear to the Horizon is a nail-biting Aussie-style thriller, based on one of the great unsolved crimes in Western Australia’s recent history.

Review:

Clear to the Horizon is loosely based around real murders. Need I say more? Probably not but I will anyway. Clear to the Horizon is also an aussie thriller, and if you didn’t know that the author was an Australia, reading this book would give it away. Not only by the locations of this book but also by the colourful language that the characters use. Nothing gets more Australian then swearing like a chimney sweeper.

Between 1999 and 2000, three young women go missing. All on separate occasions and all under different circumstances but all last seen leaving a nightclub in Perth. With the local police drawing blanks, one of the victim’s family reach out to investigator Snowy Lane for help. After all, Lane used to be a member of the police force.

Though this is technically a sequel, you could read this as a standalone. Mind you I only found out it was a sequel when I did some digging on the author and the killings after I finished the book. Wooops. Anyway if this does sound like your cup of tea than I recommending getting it and you probably won’t need to read the first in the series to get to know the characters, the author does an excellent job of introducing them. I was also surprised about how close to fact this book was to the killings that actually took place. Nothing is better than an author that does his research beforehand.

Our main character Snowy Lane was the only character I liked in this book. It wasn’t that the side characters weren’t well written and introduced, because they were. I just found Lane more convincing as a character and I invested more time in him. Lane was dedicated to his job and his family but finds himself haunted by the Claremont After all he was a fair dinkum aussie!

Clear to the Horizon was an action packed book set in Perth Australia and an extremely intriguing crime novel. If you’re a fan of aussie crime books this is one that needs to be added to your shelves.

Rating: 4/5

ISBN: 9781925164459

Publisher: Fremantle Press