A place with something to hide.
The shore offers an escape. In The Beach, it also holds the first clue.
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Some secrets
come in
with the tide.
A quiet shore. A buried truth.
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THE BEACHJT NEWMAN
A little further beneath the surface01 / THE BEACH
MYSTERY & SUSPENSE✦SECRETS BENEATH THE SURFACE✦STORIES THAT LINGER✦JT NEWMAN
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The BeachThe Past Never Stays Buried
A murder mystery
by JT Newman.
Rocky Mouth.
Nothing stays buried forever.
A body in the dunes.
A town with a past.
A young woman vanishes after a night at the Rocky Mouth hotel. When her body is found buried in a sand dune, a town’s old wounds begin to reopen.
Called back from leave, Bob Annersley faces three suspects, racial tensions, and resentments left by the war.
- The investigator
- Bob Annersley
- The setting
- Rocky Mouth
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THE BEACHJT NEWMAN
2025 / Murder mystery
The Beach
The Past Never Stays Buried
A body in the dunes. Three suspects. Bob Annersley returns to a coastal town where wartime resentments and buried secrets run deep.
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FLOODEDJT NEWMAN
2024 / Murder mystery
Flooded
Unsolved and Underwater
As floodwaters isolate his hometown, Detective Sergeant Bob Annersley investigates a murder and a suicide on neighbouring farms.
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OVERLORDSJT NEWMAN
2023 / Alternative history
Overlords
Stories of a Japanese Australia
An alternative-history collection imagining Australians’ lives after a Japanese victory in the Pacific War, from 1944 to 1972.
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The case. And the cost.
For Bob Annersley, returning to an investigation means stepping away from home.
What the past leaves behind.
An investigation brings old resentments into the present tense.
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