Canticle Creek

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The book is set in a small town in the outbacks of Australia, Jesse is a police officer trying to do good and bring compassion to the job. Metal Sculptor based in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, using recycled materials to create sculptures for your garden or indoor decoration. Also, not necessarily a criticism but I kept hearing parts of this story as dialogue in my head like a voice over in one of those private detective tv spoofs. Things were going well it seemed, with Adam and Jesse’s father, they shared a common interest in art.

But while admiring Takada’s painting, they meet his daughter, Lucy, with her husband Sam and teen-aged daughter Possum. Jesse's a fabulous, strong, believable character who arrives in Victoria determined to find the truth no matter what. Biography: Adrian Hyland is the award-winning author of Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road and Kinglake-350, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2012. Local horse-mad teenager, Possum, is keen to help Jesse with her enquiries, while former drug-addict, Nadia, doesn’t want to help at all.

From The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou to novels by Garry Disher and Chris Hammer – there’s a lot of Australian crime fiction to choose from.

Finally, I am still questioning the ending, or in fact almost two endings and the inclusion of the bushfire and its outcomes.She’s convinced Adam would never have murdered Daisy, the woman he loved and after meeting a few of the locals, is convinced there is something very wrong in the town. When at home in the Northern Territory of Kulara, Redpath works with Danny Jakamarra, an Aboriginal Community Police Officer. My huge thanks to Ultimo Press for accepting my request to read and review this title via NetGalley.

Jesse’s an appealing protagonist, a thoughtful and capable and police officer, with investigative skills learnt from Danny Jakamarra, the Aboriginal Community Police Officer, whom she works with in Kulara. Jesse has saved a local boy, Adam Lawson from jail and has arranged for him to live with her artist father who lives a quite life. Where you will meet artists, drug dealers, an observant young girl, a feisty horse and a police officer on an unofficial investigation to prove a young man, who she saved from the system, innocent of murder.And after experiencing Hyland’s writing and storytelling for the first time, I think it’s very safe to say that I will be reading this author’s work again in the future. There were parts of the book that I enjoyed, but then there were others I found quite a struggle and overall I was disappointed. I kept reading because there were some elegant turns of phrase, but I never truly found it plausible. To the Victorian cops it is a clean case but to Jesse, who knew Adam well, it wasn’t as closed as it sounded and she had many questions, including whether Adam can become a killer. Like the best small town mysteries, suspects are not short on the ground and the general animosity towards those representing authority add fuel to this outback fire.