Orphan Rock

by Bronwyn Rodden

Blue Mountains Detective Ros Gordon once again teams up with her boss Bill Fontani and colleague Constable Leighton in an investigation of the suspicious death of Red Ridge real estate agent, Jack Spandel. They are led from the mountain wilderness to Sydney's Chinatown in pursuit of not one, but two murders, encountering along the way, the uncomfortable presence of Mark Pragen, from the city Homicide Squad.

221 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 5, 2020

About the author

Bronwyn Rodden was born in Sydney, Australia, but now lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW. She won the Patricia Hackett Prize (for short fiction) and was selected for the first New Poets Program Workshop (Scarp). She holds an MA Writing from UTS and her poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals in Australia and the U.K. and broadcast on radio. She was awarded an Emerging Writer Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and a residency at the Writers Cottage, Bundanon. She was also selected for the QWC/Hachette Publishing manuscript retreat. She released her first novel, The Crushers, on Amazon Kindle and another novel, Life at Sea, was shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel of the Year Competition 2012. She has now released two more Blue Mountains mysteries, Orphan Rock and The Weaver of Blackheath, as well as a book set in ireland, Fish, and two collections of short ficiton and one of poetry, Zen and the Art of Astroturf. She was published in the new International Anthology of Surrealist and Magcial Realist Poetry and was a Finalist in the 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her short story 'Scone Making' was Highly Commended by the Society of Women Writers NSW and will be included in their Centenary Anthology. Her collection of poetry, 'Stranded' was published by Flying Islands Press and a poem of hers will be performed at the launch of the HERstory festival in Sydney in 2025. Bronwyn is also a visual artist and has held solo exhibitions in Sydney and Bellingen.