Absolutely no offence intended for anyone who writes or reads crime fic – I love it, and read a bunch of it.  However, I already forgot how these ended, and I’ve read them in the last four weeks. The Valley is the latest in Chris Hammer’s series of books starring Ivan & Nell, two detectives based out of Dubbo, servicing a large swath of rural NSW. Hammer’s early Martin Scarsden books have recently been turned into direct-to-streaming movies, starting with Scrublands.  If you saw that, […]