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Martin, Angie Faye2025
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The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder. Renee Taylor is planning to stay the minimum amount of time in her remote hometown - only as long as her mum needs her, then she is fleeing back to her real life in Brisbane. Seconded to the town's sleepy police station, Renee is pretty sure work will hold nothing more exciting than delivering speeding tickets. Then a murdered woman is found down by the creek on the outskirts of town. Leading the investigation, Renee uncovers a perplexing connection to the disappearance of two young women thirty years earlier. As she delves deeper and the mystery unfurls, intergenerational cruelties, endemic racism, and deep corruption show themselves, even as dark and bitter truths about the town and its inhabitants' past rise up and threaten to overwhelm the present…
Main title:
Melaleuca / Angie Faye Martin.
Author:
Martin, Angie Faye, author
Work:
Imprint:
Gadigal Country : HQ Fiction, 2025.©2025
Collation:
419 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A remote town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come… "--Page [1] of cover.Includes book group discussion questions.
ISBN:
9781867270881 (paperback)
Dewey class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Crimes against -- FictionWomen -- Crimes against -- FictionRacism -- Australia -- FictionAboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- FictionCold cases (Criminal investigation) -- FictionCountry life -- Australia -- FictionMissing persons -- FictionWomen detectives -- FictionMurder -- Investigation -- FictionPolicewomen -- Australia -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionAustralian fictionThrillers (Fiction)Detective and mystery fiction
BRN:
2850033