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Warranilla: Nick Vada, Book 1
Detective Sergeant Nick Vada thought he had left the past behind when he moved to the bustling streets of Sydney. But when his sister's wedding brings him back to the sleepy farming town of Milford, he's forced to confront memories he'd rather forget.
What should have been a joyful family reunion quickly turns sinister when a body is discovered on the homestead of Warranilla, the largest farm in the region. The local police are out of their depth and Nick finds himself reluctantly drawn into the investigation, compelled by both professional duty and a personal sense of justice.
The deeper Nick delves, the more he finds parallels in the 1992 murder of his own mother, and he feels that the victim's death is connected to events from his own past. With the clock ticking and the wedding fast approaching, Nick must navigate a tangled web of lies, old grudges and buried truths before another life is lost...
What should have been a joyful family reunion quickly turns sinister when a body is discovered on the homestead of Warranilla, the largest farm in the region. The local police are out of their depth and Nick finds himself reluctantly drawn into the investigation, compelled by both professional duty and a personal sense of justice.
The deeper Nick delves, the more he finds parallels in the 1992 murder of his own mother, and he feels that the victim's death is connected to events from his own past. With the clock ticking and the wedding fast approaching, Nick must navigate a tangled web of lies, old grudges and buried truths before another life is lost...
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December 30, 2025
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DS Nick Vada returns to his home town for the wedding of his sister. When a body of a young local woman is discovered Vada is tasked with the investigation. Through a series of bumbles, tenuous family relationships. and his issues with alcohol, Nick also looks into the death of his mother years prior, as the details of her murder share a striking resemblance to the recent murder.
I didn’t mind this in that it trots along reasonably well as far as pace goes and Nick is a troubled character that seems to find himself in various spots of bother. Not a particularly critical thinker and not particularly reflective. The book was a little predictable in the final chapters.
DS Nick Vada returns to his home town for the wedding of his sister. When a body of a young local woman is discovered Vada is tasked with the investigation. Through a series of bumbles, tenuous family relationships. and his issues with alcohol, Nick also looks into the death of his mother years prior, as the details of her murder share a striking resemblance to the recent murder.
I didn’t mind this in that it trots along reasonably well as far as pace goes and Nick is a troubled character that seems to find himself in various spots of bother. Not a particularly critical thinker and not particularly reflective. The book was a little predictable in the final chapters.
January 5, 2026
Relatively enjoyable read but I think old Nick needs to get a new job because the identities of the killers were way more obvious to the reader than to him ( perhaps it was all the hangovers clouding his reasoning).
Minor irk. Everyone kept commenting that he was here for the big wedding like he was an unknown blow in from the city rather than the brother of the bride and well known in the town, even if he hadnt been there for a while. Having spent a lot of my life living in small country towns, this didn't ring true to me.
Minor irk. Everyone kept commenting that he was here for the big wedding like he was an unknown blow in from the city rather than the brother of the bride and well known in the town, even if he hadnt been there for a while. Having spent a lot of my life living in small country towns, this didn't ring true to me.
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