a riveting crime novel and an engrossing police procedural involving a brutal and inexplicable murder which the two lead characters investigate. The plotting, characterisation and pace makes this an engrossing, exhilarating and memorable read…dark and harrowing at times as all excellent crime fiction should be, but it also has plenty of humour and is beautifully and sensitively written throughout. I know these main characters will stay with me

This is Australian author Hayley Scrivenor‘s 2nd book (her first: Dirt Town in the UK / Dirt Creek in the USA was an international best seller & worthy winner of the CWA New Blood Award for debut novels). Set in Australia‘s Blue Mountains, it spans several time lines in the life of the narrator Finn - the most immediate being before & after a horrific climbing accident. A definite page turner