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message 1: by Amanda (last edited Oct 15, 2025 10:27PM) (new)

Amanda Maclean | 2 comments Hi there
Can you add this book Dark Desert Road, by Tim Ayliffe, I just read an early reading copy, it's on Amazon pre-order, releasing in January in Australia.978-1786587213
Thank you!


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Martina  (martina_s_hlavou_v_knihach) | 12464 comments Please read How to request a book to be added to Goodreads and then provide all the information that we need. Thanks


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Isalyne | 1788 comments * Title:Dark Desert Road
* Author(s) name(s): Tim Ayliffe
* ISBN (or ASIN): 978-1786587213
* Publisher: Echo
* Publication Date Year: 2026
* Publication Date Month: 01
* Publication Date Day: 06
* Page count: 400
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): paperback
* Description:
A fugitive sister. A dangerous father. A terror cell hiding in plain sight.

'With unforgettable characters and a simmering plot, Ayliffe takes us on a hell-ride through the forgotten towns of Australia's Badlands.' Candice Fox



'Dark Desert Road feels ripped from the headlines, with the signature insight that is Tim Ayliffe's calling card. Kit McCarthy is a good cop, strung out and struggling to adjust after closing a large child protection case. When Kit learns her twin sister Billie is in trouble, she will stop at nothing to find her. Even if Billie has drifted so far into a world of conspiracy, sovereign citizens and bikies that she might not want saving. A cracking, politically-savvy thriller from Australia's master of the art.' Hayley Scrivenor, internationally bestselling author of Dirt Town and Girl Falling

'A cracking read, written with Ayliffe's signature flair and ability to reflect current fracture points into a gripping and propulsive story. A taut, urgent page-turner ... fiction built on a terrifying and confronting reality.' Michael Brissenden



Kit McCarthy hasn't seen her identical twin sister, Billie, in more than a decade.

The sisters don't see eye to eye, which is understandable, considering Kit's a police officer and Billie followed their violent father into a life of crime.

Kit is no angel. Burnt out by years working in child protection, she has been accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a violent drunk. Kit has just been ordered to take time off work when she gets a frantic message from Billie, telling her she has a young son and that somebody is trying to kill her.

And then Billie disappears.

Determined to find her estranged sister, Kit's only lead comes after visiting their father in prison. Malcolm McCarthy claims Billie married a former United States Marine and has been living with a group of sovereign citizens in the desert country of the New South Wales Riverina.

Kit's journey to find Billie takes her through shuttered towns destroyed by drought, where everybody owns guns, nobody talks to cops, and people get lost for a reason.

Out here a war is brewing between a ruthless bikie gang and a separatist community that is re-engaging with society in the most violent way.

Kit will risk everything to find her sister and the nephew she never knew she had.

But does Billie really want to be saved?
* Link: https://www.amazon.com.au/Dark-Desert...


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Martina  (martina_s_hlavou_v_knihach) | 12464 comments Thanks Isalyne.

Book added: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


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