The Creeper

Margaret Hickey

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Penguin
01 July 2025

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Australian Crime Fiction

A chilling mystery novel from the award-winning author of bestsellers Cutters End, Stone Town and Broken Bay.

Victim ... or killer?

For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria's high country has been haunted by the horrific murders of five hikers up on Jagged Ridge.

Also found dead near the scene was Bill 'Creeper' Durant, a bushland loner, expert deer-hunter, and a man with a known reputation for stalking campers . . .

Conclusion- murder-suicide. Case closed.

But as the ten-year anniversary of the massacre draws near, Detective Constable Sally White - the only officer at Edenville's modest police station - finds herself drawn into the dark world of the notorious Durant family.

Lex Durant, in particular, has started to publicly protest his brother's innocence and accuse the police of persecution.

As Sally combs the investigation to prove him wrong, it becomes all too clear that each murdered hiker had skeletons in their closet - and possible enemies in their past . . .

'Eerie, vivid, tense. A powerhouse of a novel - I loved it.' Shelley Burr, author of WAKE

'Taut and terrific, occasionally horrific, set aside

time to savour this

page turner.' Daily Telegraph

'An entertaining, very clever and methodical police procedural.' Good Reading

By: Margaret Hickey
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781761342035
ISBN 10: 1761342037
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is also the author of Cutters End, Stone Town and Broken Bay. Cutters End was awarded the BAD Crime Sydney Festival's Danger Prize, and was also shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction.