Books@Stones event: The Switch by P.A. Thomas

Join us at Books@Stones on Thursday 4 February 2027 (6:30pm) for an author event with P.A. Thomas to celebrate the launch of The Switch - another page-turning murder mystery full of humour by the author of The Beacon and The Sunbaker.

The third and final instalment in the entrancing Byron Bay-set series by P.A. Thomas featuring newspaper editor Jack Harris and his lawyer-turned-partner Caitlin O'Shaughnessy.

Lisa Delaney is not having a good day. She has flown to Byron Bay to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Mildred, but is running late and just manages to make it on time. After the service has finished, she asks for a chance to say her final goodbyes to the woman who raised her like a mother. But when the coffin is opened, Lisa is shocked and horrified to find that it is not actually Mildred in the coffin. The body is of a man – someone that nobody seems to recognise.

When the police make slow progress identifying the mystery man and no progress at all finding the missing Mildred, Jack Harris, journalist at the local newspaper in Byron Bay, becomes intrigued by the story, especially since the unidentified man was wearing a T-shirt from one of his favourite bands from the 80s. He decides to start his own investigation into the man's identity and to locate the missing Mildred. When another person goes missing and heavily armed gang land figures from interstate appear on the scene, the pressure begins to escalate.

Can Jack find the missing Mildred and work out how and why a mystery man was placed in her coffin before others find themselves in harm's way?

P. A. Thomas studied medicine in Newcastle, New South Wales, undertook specialist training in nuclear medicine at the Mayo Clinic in the USA, and now works as a specialist at a public hospital in Brisbane. He is also a wilderness landscape photographer: he has had many joint and solo exhibitions, and his images have appeared in Australian Geographic publication. He lives in the Byron Bay region, the setting for his first novel, The Beacon, and its sequel, The Sunbaker.

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