Batavia Shores

About the Book

Batavia Shores is the long-awaited sequel to Devlin Pool. It again follows the two Geraldton detectives, Barney Merrick and Zep Marcon, as this time they try to unravel the mysterious torture and murder of a used-car dealer. Issues that confront them include gunrunning, drug importation, and international terrorism. Concurrent to their investigation is the feud between two Aboriginal members of Mid-West tribes, woven into the middle of the hectic local football season.

About the Author

Kenneth Frederick Stewart was born in 1948 in Perth, Western Australia, and grew up in the suburb of Cottesloe. He is now a retired teacher after forty-two years in the classroom, twenty-five of those as the Head of Mathematics Department in senior high schools. Ten years were spent in Geraldton, and during that period, he was a senior goal umpire for the GNFL. He now lives in Balcatta in Perth. Ken runs a separate web page for his family history research with KITTO as a one-name study. He is a keen body surfer and bush walker.