Detective Chief
Inspector Leo Carter

On sale July 21, 2026 · Book Two

Streaming Blood

A dead influencer. A forgotten serial killer. A gay detective on the edge.

When controversial influencer Todd Summers is found strangled by his own seat belt, DCI Carter takes on the case. Todd was about to release an explosive podcast about a string of suspicious "suicides" of gay men in the '90s that police wrote off. Todd was convinced those men were murdered, meaning the police let a serial killer get away.

Someone killed Todd to make him part of the story.

Todd's murder ignites a firestorm, with conspiracy theorists flooding social media and the streets of Melbourne. Accusations of a police cover-up spread and when Carter sees the state of the cold case files, he starts to agree. But this case won't let go: gay men murdered in the '90s, a community failed and now more murders staged to look like history is repeating itself.

For Carter, it's getting personal and his own secrets are closing in. The gambling Carter hides, the guilt he can't shake and the new boyfriend he's terrified to lose. Someone in Melbourne’s laneways is killing to protect old secrets and Carter is running out of time to stop them.

Streaming Blood is the gritty second detective mystery in the DCI Carter series, following High-Rise Blood.

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.