Gunshot road

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Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan's tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate, Superintendent Tom MacGillivray, has persuaded her to sign on as the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush. Then Tom is hospitalised and Emily finds herself working for a new bloke instead: an east-coast ring-in, a martinet called Cockburn. Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, Emily is immediately at odds with the new boss. And the death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse only complicates things. Cockburn thinks it's a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer. Emily's not convinced. Adrian Hyland takes us to the outback - a place we think we know,...

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Auteur Adrian Hyland
Éditeur Text Publishing
Genre Romans policiers, noirs
Date 2010
Tags indigenous,gunshot,Adrian Hyland,Australia,Diamond Dove
Format Format 15,5 x 23,5 cm, broché, 372 pages
EAN 13 9781921656309

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Adrian Hyland spent many years in the Northern Territory, living and working among indigenous people. He now teaches at LaTrobe University and lives in the north-east of Melbourne. His first novel, Diamond Dove won the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.