Mosquito Creek
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Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden death in harsh conditions. As sickness starts to take its toll and calls mount for the rescue of diggers stranded by the raging torrent, Sergeant Niall Kennedy must try to keep order in a place where frictions can become murderous. Does a suspiciously abandoned tent suggest there has already been a killing? And why has Mosquito Creek's erratic Commissioner Stanfield drafted in special troopers behind Kennedy's back? In a new country where everyone's past has a question mark, asking too many questions can lead to danger. But how else can an honest man get to the truth? And can the unexpected prospect of romance deliver Kennedy from his own dark past? Mosquito Creek is a rare treat - historical fiction that brilliantly evokes the hardships of early Australia, and a crime novel in a setting where crime touches upon everyone and everything.
Author: Robert Engwerda
Format: Paperback, 352 pages, 152mm x 228mm
Published: 2010, Penguin Random House Australia, Australia
Genre: Historical & Mythological Fiction
Description
Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden death in harsh conditions. As sickness starts to take its toll and calls mount for the rescue of diggers stranded by the raging torrent, Sergeant Niall Kennedy must try to keep order in a place where frictions can become murderous. Does a suspiciously abandoned tent suggest there has already been a killing? And why has Mosquito Creek's erratic Commissioner Stanfield drafted in special troopers behind Kennedy's back? In a new country where everyone's past has a question mark, asking too many questions can lead to danger. But how else can an honest man get to the truth? And can the unexpected prospect of romance deliver Kennedy from his own dark past? Mosquito Creek is a rare treat - historical fiction that brilliantly evokes the hardships of early Australia, and a crime novel in a setting where crime touches upon everyone and everything.
Mosquito Creek