CRIME · SUSPENSE
The Seventeenth
A new life. A haunted analyst. A past that refuses to let go.
THE WORLD OF DAVID KERNOT
Some secrets
never stay
buried.
Crime. Strange worlds. The darkness within.
Stories that follow you beyond the final page.
YOUR NEXT DARK OBSESSION
Dark secrets. Survival. A romance.
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR · UNSETTLING FICTIONBegin the story
A FIRST STEP INTO THE DARK
A crime that refuses
to stay buried.
Meet Revenants of Sophie: a girl, her dog, her father — and a secret that won’t rest. Join David’s reader list through his existing free-story page for the story and occasional writing news.
Get the free storyIN THE SPOTLIGHT
The past has
a way of finding you.
CRIME THRILLER · PARANORMAL ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
The Seventeenth
Miriam escapes her serial-killer husband and starts again in Two Rivers. There, she meets Mike, a police analyst haunted by ghosts.
As their connection deepens, his supernatural gift reveals murders that lead back to her past. The man she fled still believes she belongs to him.
Available in ebook, paperback & hardcover
CHOOSE YOUR NEXT WORLD
Beyond the ordinary.
Human stories at the edge of darkness.
Find the world that draws you in.
CLIMATE FICTION · MAGIC REALISM
Gaia’s Guardians
Three generations. An ancient power. A planet on the brink.
CONTEMPORARY FANTASY · MAGIC REALISM
Maralinga Winds
A wounded veteran. A family’s legacy. A journey through time.
MORE WORLDS TO ENTER
Not Like Us · Gateway Through Time · Impossible Futures
and the earlier collections
DAVID KERNOT · SOUTH AUSTRALIATHE AUTHOR BEHIND THE SHADOWS
A restless
imagination.
David Kernot writes crime thrillers, contemporary fantasy, science fiction and dark fiction from South Australia. His stories explore strange possibilities and the very human consequences that follow.
With eighty short-story publications and work appearing in more than thirty publications worldwide, he moves between the familiar and the uncanny. He has edited speculative fiction and judged the Aurealis and Australian Shadow Awards.
Living off grid, he brings an interest in the natural world, permaculture and the mysteries of the universe to his writing.