It felt a bit like Jane Harper fan fiction. Or the version of Chris Hammer you get from Aldi. Okay at times, but laughably bad at others. ...more

I won a copy of The Deep and hadn’t read Kyle Perry’s first book. I found the remote Tasmanian small coastal town setting interesting and the town had lots of secrets. I found there were lots of characters and it was hard to keep track of who was who. The pace of the book sped up at the end but I fo ...more

Unputdownable. This book only took me a week to read because I had to work every day. If I'd been able to devote the time I reckon I would have consumed this in 2 days! Kyle Perry had a stunning debut novel in The Bluffs, but this....THIS easily surpasses it. From the harsh but beautiful coastal set ...more

was so silly it just really annoyed me ...more

“Black wind at morning, sailors take warning.
Black wind at night, death is in sight.”

Perry is back with his second thriller set off the rugged coast of Tasmania. If you find yourself in the path of the black wind while your out at sea all you can do is race to the shore and hope you make it there al ...more

On the Tasman Peninsula, among the sea-cliffs, is Shacktown. We meet the Dempsey family that have run a drug ring for years, by cover of a fishing business. But one day thirteen year old Forest Dempsey walks out of the ocean - a boy that has been missing for seven years and the story begins. We get ...more

On the edge of Tasmania, lies Shacktown, a coastal Australian town ruled by the Dempsey family. The Dempsey family are most know for two things - their drug empire and the mysterious disappearance of Jesse, Alexandra and Forest Dempsey many years ago. 7 years later and Forest Dempsey has just washed ...more

3.5 rounded up

I flew through this! THE DEEP is an atmospheric crime fic/thriller on par with the works of Jane Harper and Chris Hammer. ⁣
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Set against the rugged Tasmanian landscape, THE DEEP centres around the powerful Dempsey family and the drug trade they run under the guise of an abalone business ...more

Rivetting, emotional - so many twists and turns it'll crick your neck. Really fun, really thrilling. ...more

After the success of The Bluffs, I know a lot of readers are eagerly anticipating The Deep, so feel lucky to have read an uncorrected proof of what will be a popular Aussie release!

The Deep it set in coastal Tasmania. Here, family drama abounds with Davey Dempsey leading the family drug business, hi ...more