Join us for a night with West Australian Author Michael Trant, talking about his new thriller "Blood and Gold". Michael is also the author of Ridgeview Station, Wild Dogs and No Trace.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night.

Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . .

The third book in the Gabe Ahern series, Blood and Gold takes Michael Trant’s stoic, dog-trapping hero back to his roots in the remote West Australian town of Cue in an outback action thriller to get your 2025 reading list off to a high-octane start. Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting discovery – and then vanish into thin air. But Gabe Ahern is determined he will be the last.
No one knows the land around Cue better than Gabe – a wild dog trapper who’s in his element in the bush. Feeling responsible for his friend’s fate, he races there to join the search. But it won’t be an easy ride. For a start the local cops seem sure Terry going missing is nothing more than a tragic accident. It’ down to Gabe to spot the sinister pattern of disappearances and deaths in recent years. Plus, the last time Gabe was in his old home town it was under the very worst of circumstances. And now, to stop a killer, he’ll need to confront the ghosts from his past.

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