Casey Walsh

Historical Fiction

‘Love's young dream lay in tatters…’


 

 

 

A cosy mystery novella. Book three in the Downs series.


It’s the spring of 1902 and things are looking up for brilliant young engineer, Randolph Henry. He's just landed his dream job and his dream girl. But elation soon turns to despair when he finds his sweetheart in the arms of another and himself on the run, accused of a vicious attack and a brutal murder.

 

Indomitable publican, Marmie Harris has just walked down the aisle for the fourth time and is looking forward to quiet retirement in the leafy suburb of Middle Ridge. But her dreams of peace are wrenched away when tragedy comes calling.

 

Aspiring newspaper editor and frustrated journalist, Chevril Crawley is lamenting a slow news week when two heinous crimes ar commited on his patch, one involving his landlady, Marmie. Soon, they find themselves in a race against time to catch a killer.

 

Former cattle-thief turned respectable citizen, Sturrock feels he is past his use-by date. Until his old friend Marmie realises that he just might hold the key to solving a murder.

 

Can this unlikely crime-fighting trio unlock the murderer's motives and identity before an innocent man goes to the gallows?

 

 

 

‘The road north beckons with the promise of rich pickings, and I do not speak of gold…’


 

 

 

A romantic adventure novella. Book two in the Downs series.


It’s 1880, Queensland, Australia and gold fever grips the colony, transforming the barely there town of Gympie into a Mecca overnight. Gorgeous thief and unapologetic ladies’ man, Eamon Phelan, and his gang descend upon the settlement and are soon offered a job too good to refuse.


Amidst a flood, a daring rescue, the wrath of a spurned heiress and the schemes of an old foe hell-bent on revenge, their best-laid plans are finally derailed and Eamon finds himself imprisoned for a crime that for once, he didn’t commit.

 

Can his gang do the impossible and find the real culprits before it’s too late and claim the tantalising reward on offer, one that could change their lives forever?

 

'They say bad things come in threes...'

 

 

 

An Australian historical rural family saga. Book one in the Downs series.
 

Tragedy forces the teenaged Cleary sisters to join the thousands leaving Ireland for the fabled good life in the colonies. But at the bottom of the world, they encounter dangerous and disconcerting characters, prejudices they thought they'd left behind, and choices that can only drive them apart.

 

Through the eyes of the dutiful and naive, Roisin; lovelorn stalwart, Grace; and feminist artist Stella, The Darlings of the Downs explores the secrets and the ties that bind families from one generation to the next and the impossible choices women make for the people they love.

 

Set against the backdrop of colonial and post-war era  Australia , this richly layered historical family drama traces the delicate threads of cause and effect throughout five generations.


 

All books in the series can be read as stand alone works or in any order.