Sometime in 2012 a copy of Pig's Head (published 1994) was seen for sale in a bookshop in Boston, Massachusetts, for $400. First editions of contemporary Australian fiction seldom fetch such prices. What was it about this one? Pig's Head earned for its author the accolade 'Best New Oz Crime Writer' of the year by the Sydney Morning Herald: 'A new voice in Australian crime fiction, and a very good one, comes from David Owen, a white African now in Tasmania...Heineken is a tough, cynical, deadpan operator...with an engagingly droll world view, which he seldom deigns to share with his fellow officers...The mystery is well-crafted and credible, but the true joys of this novel are Pufferfish's gimlet-eyed observations and the Tasmanian backdrop, which Owen paints in loving, if amused detail (greenies in Blundstone boots, mass escapes from the salmon farms, English potters gone bush etc). No blow-in's easy superiority here. Welcome aboard, Tasmania.' Demand has been constant for the first four Pufferfish novels - long since out of print and very hard to find.