After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to interrogate the prime suspect - a silent, inscrutable man found at the scene of the crime, who disappeared without trace 15 years earlier.
But where has he been? Why won't he talk? And exactly how dangerous is her? Without conclusive evidence to prove his guilt, Dana faces a desperate race against time to persuade him to speak. But as each interview spirals with fevered intensity, Dana must reckon with her own traumatic past to reveal the shocking truth...
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In the purple pre-dawn; the ink black pools and white spray of Pulpit Falls. CHAPTER 1
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(@HachetteAus, 17 September 2020, 375 pages, hardback, copy from @AmazonUK, #AmazonVine)
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I wanted to read this book when I read the blurb plus I liked the title and the front cover looked interesting. Three very good reasons to pick up a book. This is a tense, taut, thriller, a bit of a slow burner but so well written and engaging I couldn't stop reading it. It's the kind of book that doesn't offer everything up front but gradually drip-feed's information, forcing you to read on. The death which is gradually revealed to be murder is not the central driving force of the book, but rather the spine the rest of the book winds around. Dana is fascinated by Nathan. She wants to know where's he's been for 15 years. Why did he leave? Where has he been living? Why did he come back now? Why was he found with the dead body? One of the best moments is when Dana and her officers find where Nathan has been living and are left with more questions than answers. Dana manipulates Nathan into revealing the horrific reason he vanished 15 years ago and what really happened to the dead man. This is such a good book.
