Broad River Station

 Broad River Station

Detective Dave Burrows

Fleur McDonald



Reviewed by Helen


Firstly huge congrats to Fleur McDonald on the release of her twentieth book, I do love Detective Dave Burrows and am hoping to keep on meeting up with him for a long time to come. This is another page turner one that I found very hard to put down.

Constable Mia Worth has just finished her training as a police officer for the South Australian Police force and when there is a position available in the small country town of Broad River, she applies her beloved grandmother Clara is in the nursing home suffering from dementia and it is the town closest to Barker where she spent some of her early childhood. Talking to Clara is often hard when she slips back into the past hinting at family secrets and talking about the shop in the main street of Barker that apparently she still owns, Mia is determined to get answers, while here.

Walking into the local police station finds her battling prejudice from most of the all-male staff, but Mia is determined to not let them get to her and do her best to be a good police officer she has enough worry over her grandmother. When a small child goes missing she is ordered to stay and answer the phones but when Detective Dave Burrows from Barker arrives to help with the search he takes Mia out to help and this starts a friendship that is sure to help Mia’s career.

Dave Burrows is the perfect mentor for the new constable Mia and I really do hope we are going to see a lot more of Mia I am sure she will become a firm favourite as is Dave and Jack, This story is so well written with suspense and mystery and with Dave’s cool calm attitude to solving cases, I was turning the pages, although I want all the answers I often don’t want the story to end. I do highly recommend this one, a must read. Thank you Fleur McDonald for another awesome story one for the keeper shelf.

My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.

5 stars
November 1, 2022 by Allen & Unwin AU