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  • Bibliography:
    105 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A David Longley Mystery

0.5 - Red Dirt, Blue Lightning (Sep-2022)
1 - Moving Target (Sep-2022)
2 - The Rail Wraith (Nov-2022)

Davis Bay

1 - The Ghost of Calliope Creek (Oct-2012)

The Earthborn

1 - The Dragonet (Jun-2023)

A Flick and Arrow Mystery

1 - Snowed Under (Oct-2021)

The Kids of Welles Bend

1 - One Step at a Time (Jan-2017)
2 - Second Chances (Oct-2016)
3 - Breaking Fences (Sep-2017)

Kingdom of Kaikara

1 - The Dragon's Egg (Jun-2012)
2 - The Snowcat's Child (Dec-2012)
3 - The Dryad's Forest (Apr-2013)
4 - The King's Daughter (Jun-2013)
5 - The Giant's Sword (Oct-2013)
6 - The Mergirl's Lake (May-2014)
7 - The Unicorn's Secret (Jun-2014)
8 - The Kingdom's Heir (Jul-2014)

The Onyx Pendant

1 - Tears of Stone (Nov-2022)
2 - Field of Silence (Jun-2023)

Time Will Tell

1 - Stealing Time (Apr-2019)
2 - Missing Time (Jun-2019)
3 - Losing Time (Aug-2019)

Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day

1 - The Long Way Home (Jul-2019)
2 - One of Those Days (Sep-2019)
3 - Visiting Hours (Dec-2019)

Wayfarers

1 - The Lightning Stone (Feb-2016)
2 - Legacy (Mar-2016)
3 - Dragon Hill (Jul-2016)
4 - The Darkest Dawn (Sep-2016)
5 - Freyja's Star (Feb-2017)
6 - Connections (Apr-2017)
7 - Moonfire (Aug-2017)
7.5 - The Last Hero (Sep-2021)

WorldGate

1 - Shifting Blame (Jan-2022)
2 - Small Victories (Apr-2022)

Book List in Order: 105 titles



  • Mr Anderson had been working as Santa at the shopping centre for years. But this Christmas he's been asked to fulfil a young boy's very special wish, something much more important than the latest toy......



  • Ted Byrne is a born storyteller, and his tales of Nungwarra, the white crocodile spirit of Long Hole, in the Australian outback, have entertained many a tourist. But Ted is using the legend for his own less-than-honourable purposes, and legends have ...



  • Uncle Tom’s wishes when he died were quite clear; he wanted to be cremated. ‘Burned in me box’ to use his exact words. It said so in his will, found in the file marked ‘Government Junk’ in his rolltop desk.Trouble was, the will didn’t say...



  • Tommy and his mother are trapped within a cycle of violence, terrorised by Tommy's stepfather. To cope, Tommy escapes into a fantasy-world in his mind, where he is a Hero and fights against the cruel Villain. Until the day Tommy's two worlds collide ...



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • Long ago vampires inspired hatred and terror in mankind. But that was before the industrial age. Now, in a shrinking world, they live in close proximity to humans and have to deal with changing human attitudes and confusing technology - not to mentio...



  • Linda and her two young children are escaping an abusive marriage.Jake is dealing with the death of his wife and daughter in the only way he knows how - by immersing himself in his job as a State Emergency Services volunteer.One night of flooding rai...



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...






  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • The Rythig have come to Earth on a diplomatic mission. But there is one member of the mission the Earthlings don't know about. And this small Rythig's very big problem could cause an intergalactic incident......



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • The Gold Coast, Australia. Home of sand, surf and… lions?Gavin’s heard the rumours of a lion loose on the Coast. But, pleasantly drunk from his buck’s night, he decides to walk home along the beach. Unfortunately his midnight stroll turns out a...



  • Years ago, Susan’s daughter disappeared. Susan blames herself â€" after all, she’s the one who made the quilt using the magical needle handed down from mother to daughter through the generations. Since that day, Susan has made hundreds of quilts,...



  • Mike didn’t mind the after-hours plumbing jobs; they paid the bills, and he met some interesting people. Especially the Harrises, with their huge salt-water fish tank full of sea horses. But there was something odd about that tank, not to mention t...



  • Boyd and Jasmine had run away from an abusive home to live on the streets. Then one night Jasmine disappeared, leaving Boyd alone and sick and haunted by eerie music. Now, one year later, he can hear that music again, the notes sifting through the fo...



  • To inherit a castle in Scotland from an uncle she never knew, Nori Graham must stay there for a week. Deadset easy for a tough bush girl from the Northern Territory, right? That’s what Nori thought. But that was before she met the bagpipe-playing g...



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...






  • After he finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, Orson is flung into a quest that he doesn’t know he’s on to find someone he doesn’t know he has to find in order to right a great wrong done by someone who didn’t really think about...



  • Cara lives in a home where her mother’s alcohol-fuelled violence is a daily reality.One day, after a beating, she discovers that her drawing of three lorikeets is now a drawing of two. Where the third lorikeet had been is a spatter of blood, and th...



  • Joss hates that her family’s farm has to be sold because of the economic crisis. She doesn’t really fit in with city life, and technology sometimes confuses her. Then, one night, something extraordinary happens which grants her dearest wish â€" b...



  • ‘My brother Jason is five years old. The doctor said this will probably be his last Christmas. He can see this tree from his window. Please help me decorate it for him.’A simple sign, written in Texta, hanging on a pine tree in a park.Lauren sees...



  • For hundreds of years the Snow Bear has guarded the valley from the monsters still roaming Outside.But when the Snow Bear chooses Leri, she finds a different reality than what she’s been taught all her life.Can Leri do what must be done to enable t...



  • Suiko Tanaka has come to Australia from Japan to study, and to start a new life away from the old beliefs and ancient secrets of her family.But when a young boy from her unit block goes missing, Suiko must make a choice. Should she continue to keep h...



  • In the 1950s in rural Australia, Tom and his brother and their friends find what they think is an abandoned caravan on the Brerretons’ land.Except it’s not abandoned.And the man who owns it is not happy that he’s been seen doing what he’s doi...



  • Olwen had gone into the Daintree Rainforest to be by herself for a while and sort through her life.Only to find her life taking a direction she’d never imagined when a huge tract of the rainforest is transported on board a starship.Dealing with ali...



  • Elsie Parminter loves to keep informed about all the retirement home goings-on.And she loves to keep other people informed too â€" even if it’s not their business.So when she overhears a shocking confession, Elsie knows exactly what to do â€" tell ...



  • Six hundred years before the founding of the Kingdom, the island of Kaikara was a collection of towns and villages and remote farmholds settled by those fleeing death and slavery by the Kalnari Empire on the Mainland. But now death and possible slave...






  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.From parent to child, found and lost, cherished and discarded, one small s...



  • Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.From parent to child, found and lost, cherished and discarded, one small piece of stone imbued with a mysterious essence will affect thousands of people from all ov...



  • Alanna and her sister Brenda have come with their father to Ireland so he can help their aunt sort out their grandmother’s will.But Ireland is an ancient land bound by spells and inhuman creatures.And beings who used to be human.Can Alanna and Bren...



  • Brock has moved to a small town in rural Victoria to prove to his over-protective parents, and himself, that he can manage his epilepsy.But there is a mystery surrounding his new home. Who made a mess of his shed? Who is the little girl in the photo?...



  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.From parent to child, found and lost, cherished and discarded, one small p...



  • Nara has lived alone in the loch since her family was forced to flee years ago after one of them was seen by humans. But the humans fascinate Nara.Cass doesn’t want a new step-family. And she definitely doesn’t want to be out here in the middle o...



  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.From parent to child, found and lost, cherished and discarded, one small p...



  • Tamsin has been bounced from foster home to foster home. Now she’s living on the remote coast of Tasmania, wondering if she’s ever going to fit in anywhere.Then she finds a fur seal on the beach, its body tangled in fishing line.Can Tamsin help t...



  • Greygran has come to live with Hayley’s family because she is having trouble walking and remembering things.But when the special Christmas Angel ornament goes missing, will Greygran’s determination to find it lead to disaster?Or will Hayley be wi...



  • Shay and her Mum have moved to a small English village to look after Shay’s Grandad, who was injured in a car crash. His house is huge and hundreds of years old… and something’s weird about it.As Shay learns more about the house, and her family...






  • Lara has cerebral palsy. The doctors said she’d never walk.She proved them wrong.Now Lara’s got another goal, and she’s sworn her older sister Allie to secrecy.All will be revealed at Welles Bend Primary School’s Year Six Graduation.But can L...



  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.Lodestone: a rock containing magnetite; floated in water, it swings to ind...



  • Dean’s father works at Welles Bend Wildlife Park, and Dean has been friends with one of the squirrel monkeys, Allukah, ever since he went deaf seven years ago.But Dean has a secret, one that happened by accident, and one that he can’t tell anyone...



  • Becky has a secret. She can turn herself into water.She doesn’t dare tell her parents, so she has to practise in the back garden at night.Then she hears noises next door. Becky knows the people who live there are on holiday. So who’s in their hou...



  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.Lodestone: a rock containing magnetite; floated in water, it swings to ind...



  • Ashlyn Gates is a young psychologist thrust into an unbelievable situation.Connor Moore is a ten-year-old subjected to an insane experiment which is slowly killing him.Can Ashlyn keep Connor’s mind intact as the scientists fight to save what’s le...



  • When Kalara the troll girl finds herself sent to Australia as a statue, she is sure she will never see her family in England again.Ro lives with her grandparents. She still feels odd and isolated after the death of her parents, and finds it hard to t...



  • This collection contains the following stories: The Haunting of Castle Bowland To inherit a castle in Scotland from an uncle she never knew, Nori Graham must stay there for a week. Deadset easy for a tough bush girl from Australia’s Northern Territ...



  • **The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.Lodestone: a rock containing magnetite; floated in water, it swings to ind...



  • Brad runs because it’s the one thing in his life he can do right. And what makes it better is he can see Beauty, the white pony he’s befriended, every day.But when Beauty goes missing after a storm, can Brad find her? Or will his past behaviour p...






  • Bryn Maher’s grandfather died in a car crash a year ago. But was it an accident… or something else?When Bryn finds an old pocket watch in an antique store, a watch that looks identical to the one her grandfather had lost, she buys it on impulse.B...





  • Rowie sees the chalk girl every morning outside the train station, creating her beautiful, intricate drawings. Those drawings are the high point of her day; they help her deal with the chaos and uncertainty she has to face at home.Because keeping her...



  • Kelly lived in Fraser Bay when she was a baby, but she can't remember it; the family moved inland when she was a toddler.Her mother later drowned in the sea at Fraser Bay, but Kelly can't remember that either.So why does she feel an overwhelming need...




  • When Bryn Maher learns that her next door neighbour's grandson, Jason Holloway, has been accused of something he claims he didn't do, she decides to help them by using her grandfather's watch to shift back in time and prove Jason's innocence – ...



  • Bryn has discovered that using her grandfather's pocket watch to help people is more complicated and dangerous than she thought, and has decided not to use it again.But when she learns that her friend Harley's young cousin disappeared without a trace...



  • Gary has lived on the streets for three months. It's not his choice - his Gran is in hospital and the streets are safer than living with Mum and his creep of a stepfather.Then one day Gary finds a bunch of silk flowers in a skip bin. Those flowers, a...



  • When Bryn sees a story on the local news about three children who disappeared without trace twenty years ago, she and Harley agree that this is a mystery that they should investigate.Using Bryn's pocket watch to trace the clues in real time, they dis...



  • Hailey's life is spiralling out of control.Her little sister is selfish, her young brother is… well, different, and her mother has taken off without explanation, leaving her father lost and shattered.But the absolute worst thing ever? Having t...



  • Colin is enjoying his retirement years… until, without warning, his wife Joan is admitted to hospital.Lost without her, and terrified he will lose her forever, Colin realises he has to find a way forward. But it's hard.Until the day a teenage ...



  • For Erin and her three children, Anzac Day has always been special – and it's even more special this year.For Andy's great-grandfather, Anzac Day is a time to remember his fallen friends and to honour them at the Dawn Service, and spend the day...



  • Kess's people have been trapped in their Valley for hundreds of years by the molleng, lethal mind-sucking creatures kept beyond the Forest only by the strange powers of the monstrous, half-witted Giant.But the Giant is more than he seems.And when he ...



  • A year ago, Shaun nearly died.Now he's finally back home, but his life is a wreck. His Mum is hyper-vigilant, his friends have drifted away, and no one will believe the truth about the so-called accident.Or the girl who saved him.But Shaun knows she'...



  • Megan Dennis needs to clear her friend of a murder charge... A Deadly GameCara's workplace is plagued by a Christmas thief... Casting for CluesCorbin is trying to find his missing friend... HiddenArrow stumbles onto a robbery in a snowstorm.... Snowe...



  • Corbin's family is rich, but his family life is tense. He chooses to work in a supermarket instead of letting his step-father give him a job.Millie works there too. She helps him learn the ropes and becomes a friend.Then one day she disappears withou...





  • Withdrawn and resentful after her mother's death, Erica sneaks away during Kinbrae's annual Fire Festival to the quiet and solitude of the next valley over, where the original village of Kinbrae stood before a landslide destroyed it one thousand year...



  • A gargoyle is haunted by a past it can't remember, and teenagers it must protect. Field of SilenceFreydis has two more heroes to find before she can search for her brother. But someone else has found them first. The Last HeroAll Flume wants is a home...



  • Freydis was rescued from a deadly blizzard by the goddess Freyja when she was a baby, but Freyja left her brother Haakon to survive on his own.When Haakon died Freyja refused Freydis's plea to bring him to her Hall of the People.The Fates told Freydi...



  • Flume was born selkie. She was also born deformed – which means that the sea is as dangerous to her as the land.Beka's physical differences don't make for easy friendships. Instead she patrols the beaches for TurtleWatch, reporting on nests and...



  • Arrow is confined to a wheelchair because of a childhood accident. To compensate, he's honed his computer skills to a high level, and has recently built his own drones.Flick is scarily good at parkour but can't string a sentence together to save her ...



  • Neil thinks he's pretty ordinary.Then he gets a letter and a photo from his father, who had left him and his mum fourteen years ago for a life in the bush and off the grid.That photo explains why.And it will send Neil on a journey that will turn his ...



  • Alinta has come to England to live with her aunt, Misty, after the death of her parents. Fleeing from the Midwinter Festival her aunt is participating in, she stumbles across another group of people in the Great Forest.At first Alinta thinks they are...



  • It's the week before Christmas Eve, and Carren is working as an elf in Brookvale's Santa's Grotto.But amid the holiday festivities, merchandise is going missing. And not just small, inexpensive things either. Jewellery. Electronics. Watches. Things t...



  • Most of Summit Creek's residents get on well with the Others who fell through the WorldGate eleven years ago.Constable Ben Sanders and Kear Lakeside, a witch, deal with the incidents that happen when they don't.Like Gibson's dead sheep, which he insi...





  • Izzy is seriously unhappy.Her Dad has dragged her all the way to country Tasmania and the kids at her new school are ignoring her.If her twin sister Ash was here, at least she'd have a friend.But Ash died when she was a baby.So who is the girl who su...



  • Mike and Kylie find a purply-green glowing egg buried on the beach, up near the dunes. They've never seen anything like it.Maybe they should have left it there instead of taking it home.Because now Kylie and Mike are in big trouble – and not ju...



  • Most of Summit Creek's residents get on well with the Others who fell through the WorldGate eleven years ago.Some don't.Taji is a bear shifter. All he wants is to get his provisional licence so he can finally drive on his own.He failed his first test...



  • One night Julie and Leo rescue a boy from the Morph, a green monster with glowing eyes.Now they and the boy, Mason, are in real trouble.Because Mason can light fires with his mind.And the Morph is determined to find them and steal Mason's powers no m...



  • Simon lives in a world of too-bright colours and too-loud sounds.He has ways of keeping himself protected from everything crowding his senses, but he's losing the battle.Until, during a school trip to the zoo, the keti finds him…...



  • After his brother dies, retired detective David Longley moves from New York to Australia and takes on cold cases for the Queensland Police Force. Fifty years ago, James Mitchell and two truck drivers transporting his belongings to storage were k...



  • Retired cop and private detective David Longley never thought he'd travel to Australia, let alone to a tiny town in the middle of the Outback.His younger brother moved there five years ago.Now he is dead. Murdered.Longley has come to settle his broth...



  • After his brother dies, retired detective David Longley moves from New York to Australia and takes on cold cases for the Queensland Police Force. Twenty-odd years ago, the Rail Wraith killed a woman every year for four years on the first Wednesd...



  • Corrie and Jed are on the run.Corrie is fleeing an arranged marriage to a man three times her age.Jed, whose family serve Corrie's father, Lord Braitling, as gamekeepers, is fleeing something worse.Jed has magic.And those who practice magic are hange...



  • Tilly's husband passed away suddenly six months ago, just after Christmas.Now the garden gnomes they'd collected during fifty years of marriage have disappeared too.Only to mysteriously reappear on a blog called Gone Gnomin'…A heartwarming kin...



  • Kitten will never grow up. Seriously injured in a car crash when he was three, he is literally a six-year-old in a seventeen-year-old body.Casey has lived with him and his grandfather, Dave, for the last six years, after Dave rescued her from her bro...



  • When Carly finds a dragon statue in the garden of her new home, she has no idea how her life is going to change – again.Can Fred the Wish Dragon help Carly through a really bad time?And can Carly help Fred find a place to belong?...



  • Freya and her daughter Dani have fled Australia, and her controlling ex-boyfriend, and settled into a tiny English village.Leif is still recovering after his life was shattered because of his job. To deal with the pain, both physical and mental, he c...



  • Davey can see colours that no-one else can. Colours that flow through trees, buildings, cars and even people.He also has a one-of-a-kind friend in Kemi, a tiny butterfly-winged girl who no-one else can see.But Kemi has been keeping a secret from him....



  • When Shari finds an injured cat at the park, she knows she's in trouble. She can't – won't – leave it there, but if she brings it home she knows that her stepmother, who has looked after her and her brother Danny since their father died, ...



  • Ro is determined to help Kalara the troll girl travel home from Australia to England – but it's not going to be easy … Caught in StoneNara is the last of her kind living in Loch Ness, but now the humans she's so interested in are getting...



  • Jandy lives in a future world crippled by environmental damage, food and energy shortages, and overpopulation.There are rumours that EarthGov has found a way to make things better.But when Jandy wakes up in a strange place the day after she finishes ...



  • Two girls from the opposite ends of time, drawn together by a single cataclysmic event. … Festival of FireWhen Rowie and her sisters are in terrible danger, she remembers the Chalk Girl. … The Chalk GirlThe haunting music stole Boyd's s...



  • The King of Tanaqui Island has decreed that, because his son was killed by giants, all Earthborn are to be put to death.Rhin thought he had enough problems already, trying to survive a conniving boss and wary workmates.But when he literally stumbles ...



  • Brock's magic is so rare that he has to teach himself to use it by trial and error.Fayde is running from her brother, who is forcing her to use her odd magic to hurt and steal.The gargoyle is haunted by fragments of a past it can't remember and a for...



  • Saria has risked death to escape the Compound.She is a Shadowcat, a human-panther shapeshifter.She knows the scientists will find her eventually, but there is something she must do before they do.Something that will tear her apart.Something that may ...



  • Ayla and Luke were born with wings.They've been hidden away at BioTronics's secret compound since they were found as babies, learning to fly and use their other special skills, completing endless training drills and scientific tests.When Nat, the Dir...



  • Jayden has always been different.He sees sounds as colours, his eyes are seriously light sensitive, and he sleepwalks.Kim is used to her little brother's weirdness.Until the spaceship appears over their small rural town.And Jayden's odd gifts take on...



  • Troy knows he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But he knows he's good at his job as assistant gardener at the retirement village and he loves working there.And it's even better when his old teacher, Mr Brock, who helped him get the job, becomes a...



  • Warren has done his best to raise his daughter Keiko as a single dad after his wife died in childbirth. Most of the time he does okay.This week is not an okay week.Lily can see that. She looks after Keiko at after-school care. She likes Warren, she'd...



  • Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Megan Dennis can no longer work as a wildlife ranger. While waiting for the police to find the driver, she is caught up in several mysteries involving friends and strangers. Helping her put together the clues ar...



  • Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Megan Dennis can no longer work as a wildlife ranger. While waiting for the police to find the driver, she is caught up in several mysteries involving friends and strangers. Helping her put together the clues ar...



  • One year ago Hannah's older brother Tom died in a motorbike accident.On the anniversary of his death, she returns to the bridge where it happened and finds two teenagers waiting for her; Cam, who doesn't talk, and Rylie, who seems to resent the fact ...



  • Sager Ashton died in 1066, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.But he didn't. Not really.Because during that battle he angered a Norse goddess.And Freyja, whose realm is the home of the honourable dead, has cursed him to die a thousand deaths.Sager has ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jessi Hammond has published 105 books.

Jessi Hammond does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, One Thousand Deaths, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Jessi Hammond, Nungwarra Dreaming, was published in December 2011.

Yes. Jessi Hammond has 11 series.