Katherine Franks is a Queensland Author of mystery and suspense novels. She is the author of the incredibly popular 'Beneath the Red Dust', and 'The First Wave'. Check out her other books
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Katherine Franks is an author from the Sunshine Coast, Kabi Kabi Country, Queensland. She writes thriller, mystery, and romantic suspense novels. Katherine has taught at University, been a Governess on remote cattle stations, written policy for the government and designed health policy. She has a Masters degree in Public Policy and a Bachelor of Social Science. Based on her experience working in the outback and living by the bush, Katherine’s novels feature rugged Australian landscapes and characters. Check out Katherines books: Beneath the Red Dust is an action thriller set in the Outback of Australia, and The First Wave is a thriller set on the Coast of Queensland. Devil Tree Road is a romantic suspense starring a new start, a handsome national parks worker and possible murder.
Her newest Novel the Research Station, takes mystery and thriller to a whole new level.
Check out Devil Tree Road, The First Wave and her latest novel, the Research Station
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Beneath the Red Dust takes you the remote outback of Australia where the heat is unforgiving, the people are tough and the land is brutal. Jenny Tyler has grown up here, and returns after a decade to a country that, while familiar, is full of secrets. Jenny has not been back to the Australian Outback since her father died in what the Coroner called ‘a tragic accident’. Unable to face the large cattle station which had been her home for seventeen years, Jenny left the wide open spaces of her youth for the city. Now, in remote Australia to do the Windorah Job, Jenny seeks a payment for wrongs committed years past. But while she travels over the red dust of the outback, she also finds a part of herself thought lost long ago. What is the mystery that an unknown organisation is trying to unearth? Who has been protecting the mystery for generations? And why does Jenny find herself in the middle of it all?Katherine Franks break out series is Beneath the Red Dust. You can now buy the complete series and binge on dust, death and mystery in the Australian Outback
Jasmine Apple has just moved into her new home in the Australian bush. But when property developers come knocking, followed closely by National Parks, will her new start become a false start?
Hardly 5 minutes after she moves into her new house - an inherited cement bunker like place nestled in the middle of nowhere in the Australian hinterland - National Parks come knocking accusing Jasmine of environmental crimes. It doesn't help things that National Parks worker Hugh Samson, with years of experience of entitled landowners, has an axe to grind and holds a mean grudge.
Hot on the heels of National Parks come the property developers. Jasmine discovers that a plot like hers is worth a packet to the right people. And money would come in handy now she has finally divorced her self absorbed ex husband and is bringing up their 5 year old son by herself.
Should she stay or go? Will the mystery around her fathers death help make up her mind or harden her resolve to stay?
Will she chuck it in and head back to where she came from? Or stay and face down the threats lining up to knock her down?
With themes of conservation, connection to place, community and beginning again, this is your must have holiday suspense read.
Somewhere off the coast a sudden submarine landslide has caused a massive tsunami, the likes of which Queensland has never seen.…
The First Wave is an edge of your seat thriller set in the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Australia. What starts as an ordinary day fast turns into a disaster, with the fight for survival pushing Amy Jacobs and her husband Mark to lengths they never thought possible. …
What would you do? Where would you go?
Amy starts the day like most days, pulling on her sneakers and taking her baby and 4-year-old in the pram along the ocean boardwalk. when the water pulls back, she knows something is deadly wrong.
Amy’s husband Mark is getting a haircut when he gets the emergency text to head to higher ground. With nothing but flat ground as far as the eye can see, he makes for the only high ground around - the penthouse of the holiday apartment building.…
Gazing out the window of her Brisbane office building, Nikki Bush is contemplating her next coffee when she suddenly notices strange readings on the Bureau of Meteorology’s deep sea buoys. Realising a tsunami is imminent, she begins the emergency warning protocol, knowing that the communities on the ground don’t have enough time to evacuate. Powerless to stop the unsurvivable weather events, Nikki must battle bureaucracy and her own lack of confidence in order to be believed and warn the public. …
Impossible to put down from page one, The First Wave takes you to the Sunshine Coast of Australia, and asks can ordinary people survive extraordinary events?
The First Wave is an edge of your seat thriller set in the beautiful Queensland Coast that you won’t be able to put down. Katherine Franks brings a uniquely Australian voice to her novels and in her second novel, she has taken one of Australia’s most idyll locations; a favourite holiday spot for thousands and turned it into your worst nightmare.
The First Wave is a perfect holiday thriller and readers will be taken away on an adventure on the beautiful, but deadly, Aussie Coast.
Deep within the earth, two hundred metres under the surface, a tiny black bacteria sat nestled into a sandstone nook. Its nook was cool, dark and eons old. No one had seen the nook, or the bacteria in this lifetime. Or the lifetime before.
It had been so long since someone had seen the bacteria that it had been forgotten. Completely forgotten by man and humanity. Completely forgotten by the people who had vowed to make sure it did not get forgotten. Completely forgotten by the people who absolutely should remember it. How it had been forgotten was not important. Maybe someone who had been meant to pass the knowledge down to their children had died unexpectedly. Maybe a whole race of people had died unexpectedly. Or been murdered.
So the bacteria sat there, in silence, not dying but not exactly living either.
Existing.
And no one knew it was there.
What is Beneath the Red Dust?
Poppy Geordanis figured taking a job at a remote research station as the head chef would be a dream come true. Partly for the experience, and partly to escape the constant questions from her family about when she is going to marry – as a woman of thirty, it’s a solid option. Or is it?
Twenty floors under the earth, a life or death battle has begun in a secret research station. Poppy is caught in the middle, but she doesn’t know it yet. As well as cooking dinner for fifty staff, she must use all her wits to survive when a well-trained, gun toting force invades. With the help of her best friend Amber, scientist Gary and head of security Jonah, Poppy attempts to protect her friends and colleagues from the mercenaries. That’s a tough ask when you're 5 foot 3, as graceful as an elephant and scared shitless of guns. Poppy also has a growing suspicion that resident heartthrob- chemist Nick- is not who he says he is, but Nick suggests maybe it is in fact Jonah who is a double operative. Unsure who to believe, Poppy knows she must act to prevent the force from killing those she cares about. But is the station's research the bigger risk to her and her friends?
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