Cover the Bones: the masterful new Outback thriller from the award-winning author of Scrublands

Scrublands is a crime novel by Chris Hammer, published in 2019. It won the CWA John Creasey Dagger Award in the same year and was named the Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year in 2023. Dead Man's Creek is a crime novel by Chris Hammer, published in 2023. It won the Times Crime Book of the Year in 2024.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 18 July 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

NO ONE IS EVER INNOCENT IN PARADISE. THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A small town. A closely guarded secret, stretching back decades. And blood in the water. A masterful, stunning thriller. A twisting mystery epic in scale yet intricate in detail. Irresistible. Chris Whitaker Epic. Shakespearean in depth and range The Times Fierce, gripping and spine-chilling. Daily Mail A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are dealing with a vicious homicide. The victim is Athol Hasluck, member of one of the seven dynasties who have controlled every slice of bountiful land in this modern-day Eden for generations. But this is not an isolated incident. Someone is targeting the landed aristocracy of this quiet paradise in the desert. Secrets stretching back decades are rising to the surface at last - but the question remains, who stands to gain most from their demise? Can Ivan and Nell track down a killer before the guilt at the heart of these seven families takes the entire town down with it? Praise for Chris Hammer: My favourite Australian detective is Nell Buchanan. - Ann Cleeves Hammer is a great writer - a leader in Australian noir Michael Connelly Shimmers . . . A tortured tale of blood and loss Val McDermid Stunning - a page-turner which stays long in the memory Sunday Times Utterly brilliant, a darkly simmering mystery. - Dervla McTiernan Chris Hammer is at the height of his power here. - William Shaw This novel is Hammer s best work.

Weight: 356g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472295736