From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed.
We meet Bea as she moves through the darkness, too scared to use her phone to light the way, but knowing enough to get the rifle from the lockbox on the back of the ute and to hide when she sees the lights approaching.
Darcy Tindale’s debut, The Fall, was shortlisted for the 2024 Davitt Awards. In Burning Mountain, Detective Rebecca Giles investigates the discovery of a human skull; a cold case that her career policeman father couldn’t solve 20 years ago.
Most rural noir is written by city dwellers. Not this one, and you will feel the authentic bush tones from the opening chapter. Detective Dave Burrows is back in this gritty, sometimes funny, and often tense story.