Dead On Track

Author: Chatfield, Clive N.
ISBN: 978-09806536-2-5
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Extent: 494 pages
Category: Crime Fiction

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Was it just Murphy's Law or Fate that led David Jones to fly into deteriorating weather that closed in behind him?

About to land and wait for it to clear, he sees four figures dragging what looks like a human body across a paddock to dump it. He flies at them and they drop it, fleeing to their car. As he flies past, he opens the window and starts taking photos. He lands and runs to the body, where he finds a teenage girl, drugged, viciously raped, beaten...but alive. Under low, threatening cloud he rushes her to nearby Corby Airport, where a paramedic identifies her as seventeen-year-old Michelle Somerfield.

It isn't long before David has four would-be killers on his trail, desperate to get the photos he's taken and, with Michelle's sister Tracy, they narrowly escape an attempt to kill them.

With suspicion falling on the Somerfield farm manager,Barry Searle, and an attraction growing between Tracy and him, David decides to stick around. Only for Tracy's fiance to show up.

When Searle is shot dead and threatening phone calls begin, David finds himself in a deadly web of intrigue, where no-one is above suspicion.


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Clive N. Chatfield

Clive Chatfield has two daughters, half-a-dozen grandchildren and shares his home in suburban Melbourne with a cat. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Melbourne University and spent his working life as a tramways engineer. He learned to fly at the age of 56 and has seen much of Australia from the air – and not from 30,000 feet.

An inveterate reader of murder, mystery and western novels, he decided soon after retiring to write some of his own. The first draft of Lighter Than Air began in 1988 while he attended a writing course at Holmesglen TAFE. Spurred on by his (late) wife Joyce and a good result against some 300 entries when he entered a re-written Lighter Than Air in a competition in 1995, he has continued writing novels, mostly as an escape from reality, using the setting and characters from the first as a background to others. Friends and relatives have read his novels; their response has finally led him to release the first to the public.

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