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Darcy-Lee Tindale
The Fall Bewteen
Published: 2 May 2023
ISBN: 9781761049750
Imprint: Bantam Australia
Format: Trade Paperback
Also available in EBook and Audio
Pages: 336
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From an exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction, a captivating and atmospheric rural thriller introducing Detective Rebecca Giles.
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'Rural noir at its very best.' Candice Fox
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'Unpredictable, authentic, a thrilling debut. ' Margaret Hickey
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'Full of heart while keeping you on the edge of your seat.’ Kyle Perry
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On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough . . . It will be another two hours before rigor mortis sets in. Until then, the slim fingers will float below the water’s surface, gently bobbing, beckoning Detective Giles to come and find her.
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Detective Rebecca Giles has just finished interviewing aging petty crim Sticky Pete over a spate of break-and-enters when a disturbing new report comes in. Twelve-year-old Kayleen Ellis has vanished from her home in Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley.
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Hours later, Giles is a local hero, having apparently solved Kayleen’s case and the spate of jewellery thefts.
Yet the hangover from her celebrations has barely kicked in when the body of young jillaroo Ava Emmerson is discovered in gruesome circumstances on a nearby farm.
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Giles is convinced the link between all three cases lies in the town’s tragic history, perhaps even in her own mother’s mysterious drowning thirty years ago.
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In a place where nothing much changes, suddenly a great deal is happening - and Giles’s life and career are now on the line.
Burning Mountain
Published: 29 April 2025
ISBN: 9781761049774
Imprint: Penguin
Format: Trade Paperback
Also available in EBook and Audio
Pages: 368
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When the bones of a teenage boy are discovered on Mount Wingen, Detective Rebecca Giles dives deep into a missing persons case that has haunted her rural town for twenty years . . .
Five went up. Only four came down . . .
In April 2006, fifteen-year-old Oliver went hiking to the lookout on Burning Mountain - and vanished without trace.
His schoolfriends – Bob, Bell, Phil and Paul – were the last ones to see him on the trek, yet the teenagers were never able to explain his disappearance.
Almost twenty years later, Detective Rebecca Giles is called to bushland on nearby Mount Wingen. There a skull has been dug up, reviving the mystery that has haunted the Upper Hunter area for years.
Giles is convinced that they have finally found the missing boy, and that his four friends – all now in their mid-thirties – have always known much more than they revealed. In particular, about the argument that caused Oliver to head down the mountain on his own.
But when she discusses the case with her father, retired Superintendent Benjamin Giles, another suspect is thrown into the mix. One that for Giles is uncomfortably close to home . . .
'Dark, wild and cracking with tension, Burning Mountain leaves other outback noir titles in the red dust.'
Jack Heath, bestselling author of Kill Your Husbands