SHOT
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A murder is witnessed by thousands, but who pulled the trigger?
Dahlia and Duncan Crews are rich, famous, glamorous - they share their lifestyle and picture-perfect family with hundreds of thousands of online subscribers. The Crews have it all - until they don't. Shot dead in the middle of a livestream, the couple's teenage daughter, Karma, is the sole survivor. And the prime suspect.
Years later, disgraced true-crime vlogger Jennifer Benedetta is hired to film a cold-case documentary on the unsolved Crews family murders. It's the chance she needs to salvage her reputation, but there's a catch: prove Karma Crews innocent. But something - or someone - is lurking just off camera, and the closer Jennifer gets to the truth, the further she is from safety. Who is watching? And how far will they go to remain unseen?
Praise for Shelley Burr's atmospheric bestsellers WAKE, RIPPER and VANISH:
'A sure-fire page-turner that keeps readers guessing' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Unnerving' DARCY TINDALE
'One of Australia's most exciting new crime writers' THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY
'Twisty' CANBERRA WEEKLY
'Everything you want from an Australian crime thriller' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
'Addictive' WOMAN'S DAY
'Sizzling. Boldly original. Intense and utterly gripping' ROSE CARLYLE
'Effortless' LAINIE ANDERSON
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Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches and her grandparents' property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two. When not writing, Shelley is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying sustainable agriculture at the University of New England.
Her debut novel, WAKE, was a Top Five bestseller, won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award in 2019, and the Australian Book Industry's Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction in 2023. WAKE was also shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Fiction Award. Her second novel, RIPPER, went straight to Number One on the Australian Fiction Bestseller list and was shortlisted for both the Sydney Crime Writers Festival's Danger Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction in 2024. VANISH, released in 2025, the third book in the Lane Holland series, which can also be enjoyed as a standalone novel, was a Top Ten bestseller. SHOT, a standalone thriller, is her fourth novel.
