Penguin Books Australia is generously donating twenty copies of Margaret Hickey’s latest rural thriller, An Ill Wind.
When a massive wind farm is erected on its outskirts, a small Victorian town is ripped apart in the deadliest of ways. High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. Except one is now deadly still – a body hanging from its huge white blade.
Detective Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a rich local philanthropist and owner of the wind energy farm.
Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Geordie’s widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered – and she has the death threats to prove it.
Certainly, the wind farm has ripped the rural town in two. Some welcome the jobs and prosperity it brings, others are enraged by the loss of farming land. In short, Pritchard was both saint and sinner. But who in the small community hated him enough to want him dead?
Margaret, a Sisters in Crime member, is an award-winning author and playwright from north-east Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is also the author of the Mark Ariti series, Cutters End, Stone Town, and Broken Bay, plus The Creeper, and a collection of short stories, Rural Dreams. Cutters End was awarded the BAD Crime Sydney Festival’s Danger Prize, and was also shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction.
The Crime Stack is a benefit for Sisters in Crime members. Every month there are 20 books to win in a random draw of members.
Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of An Ill Wind.
Text Publishing is sending the June winners below a copy of one of Traced by Catherine Jinks, Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke, No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, or The Name of the Sister by Gail Jones.
Colleen Angel (VIC); Heidi Catherine (VIC); Mandy Curties Partridge (QLD); Rosy Fenwicke (NZ); Anne Ferguson (QLD); Jenny Forsyth (VIC); Darry Fraser (SA); Susan Goldman (VIC); Nicole Hayes (VIC); Leanda Herring (SA); Sharmila Jayasinghe (NSW); Martie Lowenstein (VIC); Naomi Manuell (VIC); Lucia Nardo (VIC); Vikki Petraitis (VIC); Claire Sullivan (QLD); Carmel Taylor (VIC); Darcy Tindale (NSW); Margaret Walsh (VIC); and Samantha Wilson (VIC).