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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I thought Bone Lands was one of the most promising and interesting crime novels of last year, and this second outing of Boer War veteran Gus Hawkins builds on the promise and delivers in spades!
After the horrors and emotional upheavals of his last posting, NSW mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins quit the force, only to re-join when nothing else worked for him. Suffering from the horrors of his war and near death experiences, he has accepted a new post at Colley in the central western goldfield district in the autumn of 1912. On his first day there he and his junior officer are called out to assist at one of the towns in their district, only to ride into an ambush that leaves the junior policeman dead. Gus escapes back to town to call in help, only to find the police station burning down... Not knowing anyone in the town, who can he trust?
Full of accurate historical detail and set in the build-up to international war, the story is gripping and many-layered. The cast of characters are all well-fleshed and believable, none more so than the damaged Gus, who is motivated by a deep moral code and the self-perceived need to redeem himself. Even better, there is another scenario set up at the end of the book, so we will be seeing more of Gus. I for one can't wait! Lindy
Pip Fioretti has a professional background in visual arts, both practice and teaching, and took up writing fiction in 2008. She had had three books published in Women's Fiction by Hachette Australia and Pan MacMillan, and her first crime novel was Bone Lands, published by Affirm Press in 2024. Pip lives in Sydney and likes reading, looking at art, bushwalking and hanging out with friends and family.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I thought Bone Lands was one of the most promising and interesting crime novels of last year, and this second outing of Boer War veteran Gus Hawkins builds on the promise and delivers in spades!
After the horrors and emotional upheavals of his last posting, NSW mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins quit the force, only to re-join when nothing else worked for him. Suffering from the horrors of his war and near death experiences, he has accepted a new post at Colley in the central western goldfield district in the autumn of 1912. On his first day there he and his junior officer are called out to assist at one of the towns in their district, only to ride into an ambush that leaves the junior policeman dead. Gus escapes back to town to call in help, only to find the police station burning down... Not knowing anyone in the town, who can he trust?
Full of accurate historical detail and set in the build-up to international war, the story is gripping and many-layered. The cast of characters are all well-fleshed and believable, none more so than the damaged Gus, who is motivated by a deep moral code and the self-perceived need to redeem himself. Even better, there is another scenario set up at the end of the book, so we will be seeing more of Gus. I for one can't wait! Lindy
'A distinctive voice and sparkling prose ... a cracking crime thriller.'MICHAEL BRISSENDEN
