Anne's Online Books

Australian author, singer and songwriter, Anne Infante, is taking a plunge into the blogosphere by publishing blog fiction (online novels) also known as blovels (blog novels) and blooks (blog books).

Anne lives in Brisbane, Queensland. She has had five crime novels set in Brisbane and the north coast of Queensland, published by Collins Crime Club, UK and her first mainstream novel Escape from the Past set on Queensland's notorious colonial prison island, St Helena, was published in Australia by Saga Book Publishers.

A former member of CrimeWriters Queensland, Anne has short stories published in their first three successful self-published anthologies of short crime stories. See Anne's Books.

Escape from the Past

Released by Zeus Publications in December 2010
www.zeus-publications.com

E-book available at http://www.zeus-publications.com/escape_from_the_past.htm

On the way to the ruins at St Helena, once an island prison for men off the Queensland coast, Sally Cooper browses through a booklet on the island’s dark history.

A story on one of the prison’s most famous inmates, William O’Meally, sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter, captures Sally’s interest. As she reads of William’s several escape attempts and of his suicide by hanging, Sally finds herself strangely affected by his photograph; the young man’s hypnotic eyes are filled with intense desperation.

For Sally Cooper past and present are about to fuse. Haunted by William’s plea of innocence, she begins to delve into a mystery that has been buried for a hundred years. Through her freakish connection to the past, where William is living out his last days, Sally is drawn into a race against time.

While piecing together the facts regarding William’s sad plight of heartbreak and betrayal, Sally begins to explore her own past lives, to discover the disturbing truth about her own relationship.

Can she make one final link with the past to disclose the truth about William and clear his name before he is driven to take his own life?

See Scrapbook for details.

China Wind

An intriguing new mystery by Anne Infante

Anne’s first ever online novel China Wind is a tale of conspiracy and revenge in the high-rise glass towers of big business ... with a dash of corruption, secret criminal societies, a beautiful promiscuous woman ... and a twist of romance. It was published in serial form in 2009 and is available from the link below. 

The Story:

Hong Kong - December, 1996 - six months before the transition to Chinese rule.

Langford-Price is one of the leading companies in Hong Kong. When the promiscuous wife of one of the directors mysteriously disappears, Brisbane private investigator, Carol Monk, is hired to go to China to find her. Carol immediately attracts some very unwelcome attention and finds herself in the middle of what appears to be a conspiracy to arm the citizens for an open revolt against the Beijing government at the fast approaching transition to Chinese rule.

Or is someone in Langford-Price running guns purely for their own profit? Against a background of political instability, Triad operations and personal fears for the future, the colony begins to celebrate Christmas.

But suddenly there are more disappearances and people start dying. Carol realises she could be next...

Read China Wind