Bone Lands. A One-Man Police Station. Three Murders. A Past That Will Not Stay Buried.

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Affirm Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 378 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Isnt it your job to stop people being murdered1911, on a winters night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher.Detectives arrive from Sydney and the disgraced Hawkins, a traumatised veteran of the Boer War, comes under fierce scrutiny. With his honour and sanity at stake, he becomes hell-bent on finding the murderer. But as ever darker secrets are revealed about the people he thinks of as friends, Hawkins is forced to confront an uncomfortable who is paying the price for the new nations prosperity

ISBN: 9781923293007