Quinn: The First Trouble

Every reluctant hero has a past. Quinn has one he'd rather forget.

Before the gods, before Merritt's Bay, and before trouble became a permanent feature of his existence, Patrick Quinn was a detective in Parramatta with a sharp eye for detail, a complicated relationship with life, and a partner who understood him better than he understood himself.

Detective Erin Walsh was more than his colleague. She was the person who believed in him when he struggled to believe in himself, and the steady presence helping him rebuild a life he'd nearly destroyed.

Then an investigation into corruption begins uncovering connections that powerful people would prefer remained buried. A mysterious name, an unsettling encounter and a trail of unanswered questions suggest that Quinn and Erin have stumbled onto something far more dangerous than an ordinary criminal investigation.

What follows will change Quinn's life forever.

As everything he has fought to rebuild begins to unravel, Quinn discovers that some wounds don't heal simply because we survive them. And some questions refuse to stay buried, no matter how far we run.

The First Trouble reveals the events that shaped the man readers meet in The Trouble With Gods, introducing the heartbreak, stubbornness, dark humour and unexpected divine interference that will follow him into his next chapter.

Because before Quinn could become the hero nobody asked for, he had to survive becoming the man who wanted nothing to do with being one.