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Where was his God who had protected him for so many years? The stone statues he had prayed to, the plaster effigies who smiled upon him, had they abandoned him now? He hadn’t really believed in them and now they didn’t believe in him. His luck had run out, just like the blood draining down his body onto his face, in his noseand dripping from his head. He wasn’t in heaven, and he was gripped with fear – perhaps he was in hell.
Set against the backdrop of the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse and the effects on the community of Ballarat, A Murder of Crows charts the rampage of a killer determined to set the record straight. Detective Jack Waters is called to a murder that has all of the hallmarks of a stage show, by an unknown killer who seems determined to rewrite history and create his own ending to a story that has been drawn out for too long.
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A Murder of Crows – Ballarat News
- marks debut for local writer – EVIE LAMB
THE impacts of crime and policing on the community are explored in a new debut novel by local writer Digby Stevens
A Murder of Crows is a crime thriller set in Ballarat. Stevens has an extensive career background as a teacher, and his book has been published by Ingram Spark with Kindle and Amazon as the distributors. “I was 34 years as a teacher in the Catholic system. When I retired, I had written a book, but it was rough at that stage,” Stevens said.
“I thought the school I worked at was clean, but I discovered that it had historic abuse as well and that really shook me. “The book looks into the psychology. I draw that into the story. I don’t lecture about it. I started with a question which is what would happen if somebody took the law into their own hands and decided to ‘right the wrongs?’ ‘
Many local locations are mentioned, and this is the first of three books that I have written with a local detective named Jack Waters.
The actual subject matter is very topical, being set within the context of the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Abuse.
“I have the two other books in this series already written and hopefully one will be out by Christmas and another by mid next year so there will be more for Detective Jack Waters to investigate, and they are still Ballarat-based.”
It is available online in Australia and overseas as Kindle, or hard copy with companies such as Collins Books, Amazon or Booktopia. “It is available as a hard copy currently from Collins Books in Lydiard Street and Everybody Knows Books in Sturt Street,”
Stevens said. “I approached those two bookshops, and they were nice enough to put those hard copies on their shelves.
It’s a salute to the local bookshops who are willing to give local writers a go.’ Stevens said he has been on a roll with his writing so there’s
also another stand-alone novel, of the same genre, which he has written as well. “I set that book in Apollo Bay and it’s a different person investigating. I’ve got lots of other ideas planned out,” he said.
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Reader Reviews;
Digby Stevens is a talented storyteller. His first novel, ‘A Murder of Crows’ captured and held my attention from the first page. The intelligently constructed story was skilfully balanced between the intrigue of the crimes committed and the personal lives of the characters, which were well developed. I particularly enjoyed getting to know Detective Jack Waters and look forward to his future adventures.
Wendy McFarlane
28 August 2025
Reading Murder of Crows was a revelation of the criminal elements in the church of Ballarat.
The author cleverly detailed characters and situations making the book a real ‘page turner’.
It was also a clever use of local geography and music from the period to give a real setting to the story.
An exciting and interesting read.
Ashley Bryden.
December 2025
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