Silver: Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, now a major BBC TV series for summer 2025
About this ebook
'Vivid and mesmerising' Sunday Times
'Hammer is a great writer - a leader in Australian noir' Michael Connelly, bestselling author of Dark Sacred Night
A HOMECOMING MARRED BY BLOOD
Journalist Martin Scarsden returns to Port Silver to make a fresh start with his partner Mandy. But he arrives to find his childhood friend murdered - and Mandy is the prime suspect. Desperate to clear her name, Martin goes searching for the truth.
A TERRIBLE CRIME
The media descends on the coastal town, compelled by a story that has it all: sex, drugs, celebrity, and religion. Martin is chasing the biggest scoop of his career, and the most personal.
A PAST HE CAN'T ESCAPE
As Martin draws closer to a killer, the secrets of his traumatic childhood come to the surface, and he must decide what is more important - the story or his family...
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Praise for award-winning author CHRIS HAMMER:
'Shimmers . . . A tortured tale of blood and loss' VAL MCDERMID
'Stunning . . . a page-turner that stays long in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES
'An almost perfect crime novel ... Intelligent, thought-provoking, great
narrative energy' ANN CLEEVES
'Compelling, original and brilliantly executed - an excellent thriller from a new master of Australian noir' CHARLES CUMMING
'Tense, heart-squeezing and absolutely addictive - Silver is one to read again and again' GYTHA LODGE, bestselling author of She Lies in Wait
'With their small-town Australian setting, brilliantly complex plots involving corruption and cruelty, Chris hammer's crime novels are as compelling as they are topical. Alongside Jane Harper, he is in the vanguard of Australian noir' Amanda Craig, author of The Lie of the Land
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About the author
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction novelist, author of the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: Scrublands, Silver, Trust and now Legacy. Scrublands was shortlisted for major writing awards in Australia, the UK and the United States. In the UK it was named the Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year 2019 and won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award. Scrublands was adapted for TV and aired on BBC 4 in the UK in November 2023. A second series based on Silver will air later this year. Chris also writes the award-winning series featuring homicide detectives Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic: Opal Country; Dead Man's Creek; Cover The Bones; and The Broken River. Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than thirty years. He reported from more than 30 countries on six continents for SBS TV. In Canberra, roles included chief political correspondent for The Bulletin, senior writer for The Age and Online Political Editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Chris has written two non-fiction books The River (2010) - winner of the ACT Book of the Year - and The Coast (2012), published by Melbourne University Press. The River has just been republished in a special new edition (2025). Chris lives in Canberra, Australia.
