Detective Chief
Inspector Leo Carter

On sale July 21, 2026 · Book Two

Streaming Blood

Social media star Todd Summers was found strangled in his luxury Melbourne apartment. He was days away from dropping a podcast claiming a serial killer was behind a series of suspicious deaths in the gay community — the Beach Gay Eight: eight gay men murdered in the 1990s.

Someone has made Todd the story. Now that someone has Detective Chief Inspector Carter's full attention. A gay man himself, Carter investigates not only a killer hiding in plain sight but the failures of the institution he serves — feeling what it truly cost Melbourne's gay community to be abandoned by the police. As past and present collide, fresh bodies are being staged to look like history repeating.

Someone is killing to protect old secrets. And Carter is running out of time to stop them.

A propulsive, emotionally raw thriller about historical injustice, influencer culture, and the truth that some people will kill to keep buried — set against the dark laneways and glittering high-rises of Melbourne.

Out now · Book One

High-rise Blood

Underneath the bright lights and clean streets of Melbourne, crime and corruption run wild. Returning from leave, DI Leo Carter's first assignment is leading the murder investigation of an unidentified body dumped outside a gay sauna. At first he thinks it's a hate crime gone too far — but when the bodies pile up and the suspect list grows, Carter knows there's far more to this than a bashing gone wrong.

The investigation takes its toll. Carter is trying to find purpose and love, but won't find them at the bottom of empty bottles or the ka-ching of the slot machine. As the pressure builds, his vices threaten to bring him — and the case — crashing down.