THREE BODIES. THREE SUSPECTS. ONE TOWN HIDING DEADLY SECRETS.
In
the scorched heart of the Australian outback, a corpse dangles from a
gnarled eucalyptus, in the vast Mara Forestry. For newly-minted Sergeant
Michael Ryan, this discovery isn’t just his first murder case—it’s a
baptism by blood.
Desperate and overwhelmed, Ryan calls the
Mildura police station, who send the only man capable of solving such
brutality. Detective Mark ‘The Devil’ Bannon. Once Melbourne Homicide
Squad's most brilliant investigator. Now disgraced and exiled to the
most northern Victorian jurisdiction.
But one body quickly
becomes three. Three victims. Three suspects. The trail of evidence
leads to Blackpond. Where dust devils dance through empty streets and
locals view outsiders through narrowed eyes, and the police are never
welcome.
Here, generations of families have guarded their secrets
as fiercely as they’ve endured the harsh landscape. Against mounting
pressure and dwindling time, Ryan and Bannon must navigate a maze of
silence and hostility. The townsfolk have formed an impenetrable wall
that even Bannon’s notorious interrogation tactics can’t break through.
What are the people of Blackpond hiding? And why would they protect a
murderer in their midst?
It’s not long before a Blackpond
resident disappears under suspicious circumstances, only for his body to
be found floating in a sinkhole.
With each passing hour, the
killer’s shadow looms larger over Blackpond. Can Sergeant Ryan and
Detective Bannon break through the wall of silence before the body count
rises again?
Two years after his misconduct inquiry and transfer
to Mildura, Detective Bannon is off the desk and back into what he does
best. Solving difficult homicide cases, hunting down the killers,
summoning his split personality, ‘The Devil’, and sending them to hell.
This is the first book in the Mara Mysteries Series.
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