ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Having returned to Australia following close scrapes in a Europe rife with fascism, the questioning quartet of Rowland Sinclair and his friends, Edna Higgins, 'Milton' Elias Isaacs and Clyde Watson look forward to spending Christmas safely cloistered in the well-heeled Sydney enclave of Woolahra.
Those plans go awry with news of a murder - the murder of Henry Sinclair, Rowland Sinclair's father. Stranger still, the murder was thirteen years ago.
With this revelation in the sixth novel in this warm series, Sulari Gentill takes us into the darkest corners of the pastoral nobility that is the Sinclair family. The characters of Rowland Sinclair and his brother Wil emerge even more strongly defined as the tensions and drama unfold. Another corker! Craig Kirchner
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write. She grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals. Sulari is author of award-winning Rowland Sinclair WC Mysteries, a series of historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum-
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Having returned to Australia following close scrapes in a Europe rife with fascism, the questioning quartet of Rowland Sinclair and his friends, Edna Higgins, 'Milton' Elias Isaacs and Clyde Watson look forward to spending Christmas safely cloistered in the well-heeled Sydney enclave of Woolahra.
Those plans go awry with news of a murder - the murder of Henry Sinclair, Rowland Sinclair's father. Stranger still, the murder was thirteen years ago.
With this revelation in the sixth novel in this warm series, Sulari Gentill takes us into the darkest corners of the pastoral nobility that is the Sinclair family. The characters of Rowland Sinclair and his brother Wil emerge even more strongly defined as the tensions and drama unfold. Another corker! Craig Kirchner