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Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate. Could the murder be connected to the execution of the victim's friend thirty years ago—another member of The Seven—or even to the long-forgotten story of a servant girl on the brink of the Great War?

Newly minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder — a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day. As Nell starts to join the pieces together, she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her. Could her own family be implicated in the crimes? The nearer Nell comes to uncovering the secrets of the past, the more dangerous the present becomes for her, as she battles shadowy assailants and sinister forces.

In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people, and billionaires do as they please. Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator Nell Buchanan.

In Riversend, an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest steps out of his church and calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation.

Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voice mail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner, Mandalay Blonde. Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who and why? So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it.

En Riversend, en un pueblo rural azotado por una sequía interminable, un joven sacerdote abre fuego desde la escalinata de su iglesia y mata a cinco vecinos antes de ser acribillado. Un año después, el periodista Martin Scarsden llega al aislado pueblo para escribir un artículo sobre el aniversario de la tragedia. Pero las historias que escucha no encajan con la versión que su periódico informó. Martin no puede ignorar sus dudas, ni la insistencia de algunos lugareños para descubrir la verdadera razón detrás del ataque del sacerdote, a quien asombrosamente todos defienden.

Hitze. Mord. Rätsel. Schuld. Erlösung: der atemberaubende Nr.1-Bestseller-Thriller aus Australien Rivers End, ein Städtchen in der flirrenden Hitze des Outbacks: eiskalt eröffnet der junge Pfarrer vor der Kirche das Feuer auf seine Gemeinde. Er tötet fünf Menschen. Ein Jahr später kommt Reporter Martin Scarsden in den Ort, um über die Morde zu schreiben. Aber als er die Einheimischen befragt, begreift er, dass es mehr als eine Wahrheit gibt, was die Tat des Pfarrers angeht. Warum hat er wirklich getötet? War er ein Monster oder ein idealistischer Rächer?