Paul Bird writes historic murder mystery novel set in Dungog. Crime thriller and children's book author Paul Bird has launched his book over the weekend from the Clarence Town/Dungog CWA building. Thank you, Paul for raising $750 for Arthritis Australia! The Sydney based author Paul Bird, AKA SK Falconer, says he based the book in Dungog because his great grandmother, Ellen Bird, lived in Allynbrook. "My great grandmother Ellen Bird ran a wine bar in Allynbrook, so the origin

True Grit Meets True Detective “A family connection, a love of crime thrillers, and a fascination with medicine and 19th century forensics.” Says veteran author SK Falconer. These are the secret ingredients of his new novel The Demon’s Mark, book two in his Cormag Macleod Inspector series. Combining an unfiltered image of frontier life with the slow and suffocating isolation of the wilderness, author SK Falconer’s new thriller The Demon’s Mark is a darkly atmospheric and grip

THE DEMON MARK A CRIME THRILLER SET IN 1877 DUNGOG Read an interview with the author. click here Everyone has secrets. And war veteran and police inspector Cormag Macleod has plenty of his own. But investigating a murder in a small colonial town on the fringe, Macleod will uncover murky secrets that should not see the light of day. Strange marks on a corpse raise the spectre of a ritual, and superstition leads to panic in a town saturated in fear and religious fervour. Suspi

A CRIME THRILLER SET IN 1877 DUNGOG THE DEMON MARK is the sequel to the Diabolus legacy and takes place in the colonial town of Dungog in New South Wales. The main character is Cormag MacLeod, the tough policeman and inspector banished to the smaller town because of a hit that's being put on him in Sydney. With the action set twelve months after the initial novel, there's been some changes in MacLeod’s life, but he's making the most of not being able to return to Sydney by ke