The Train Rider

One man pushed Darian Richards to the edge. The man he couldn't catch. The Train Rider.
As Victoria's top homicide investigator, Darian Richards spent years catching killers. The crimes of passion, of anger, of revenge ... they were easy. It was the monsters who were hard.

Someone was taking girls. At first he'd keep them a week then give them back. Darian warned that wouldn't last. It didn't. From then on, their bodies were never found. Girls kept disappearing. All they had in common was the fact they'd last been seen on a train.

The ever-rising list of the vanished broke Darian. Forced him to walk away. Now retired, watching the Noosa River flow by, the nightmares had finally stopped. Darian was never going back.

Then three girls go missing from Queensland trains. Darian knows that the killer is playing him. He has a choice to make. But when the decision means a girl will die, there is no choice. He has to stop this man, once and for all. Forever.

Tony Cavanaugh has written for 'The Sullivans', 'Carson's Law,' 'The Flying Doctors', 'Fire', 'Adrenalin Junkies', and 'Clowning Around'. He was nominated for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for the screenplay 'Through My Eyes'. His critically acclaimed first novel PROMISE was followed in 2013 by DEAD GIRL SING. His third novel, THE TRAIN RIDER, is due out in March.