Adrian Hyland

Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker's body, the whole town assumes it's an open and shut case. But Jesse Redpath isn't from Canticle Creek. Where she comes from, the truth often hides in plain sight, but only if you know where to look. When Jesse starts to ask awkward questions, she uncovers a town full of contradictions and a cast of characters with dark pasts, secrets to hide and even more to lose. As the temperature soars, and the ground bakes, the wilderness surrounding Canticle Creek becomes a powderkeg waiting to explode. All it needs is one spark. A twisty crime thriller set in small town Australia perfect for readers of The Dry and Scrublands.

Canticle Creek

Emily Tempest: short, loud, sharp as a taipan's tooth. Last seen in the award-winning Diamond Dove, Emily has a new job: an Aboriginal Community Police Officer. A cop. Not quite what she had in mind when she returned to Central Australia. But for an Aboriginal woman in a pissant mining and meatworks town, the career options are limited. And there's a car attached. Her new boss, the dour Superintendent Cockburn, sees her role as making tea and rounding up the truants. But when one old friend is murdered out on the Gunshot Road and another one gets the blame, Emily leaps into the investigation feet first, mouth never far behind.

An Emily Tempest Mystery

Gunshot Road

‘Hyland has mastered the architecture of noir—his sinister tale seethes with small-town atmosphere and satisfying twists, set against the dangers and harsh beauty of the Australian landscape.’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘The writing is generous and whip-smart, with sentences that will stop readers in their tracks to savour them... Heart-racing twists propel the novel to its denouement, while the oppressive heat and arid landscape add an extra layer of threat to the unfolding drama.’ – Books + Publishing Canticle Creek is a twisty crime thriller set in small town Australia. When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s body, the whole town assumes it’s an open and shut case. But Jesse Redpath isn’t from Canticle Creek. Where she comes from, the truth often hides in plain sight, but only if you know where to look. When Jesse starts to ask awkward questions, she uncovers a town full of contradictions and a cast of characters with dark pasts, secrets to hide and even more to lose. As the temperature soars, and the ground bakes, the wilderness surrounding Canticle Creek becomes a powderkeg waiting to explode. All it needs is one spark.

Quercus

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel (2007). Shortly after Emily Tempest returns to Moonlight Downs, the Aboriginal community of her childhood, her best friend's father is murdered. Blame immediately falls upon Blakie, the community's violent renegade, who evades arrest and vanishes into the outback. Only gradually does Emily come to believe that there is more to her old friend's death than anyone else is prepared to consider. Determined to uncover the truth Emily applies her traditional insights and university education and sets upon a course of action that will place her, and possibly her friends and family, in mortal danger.

Diamond Dove

Austrálie až na dřeň Rebelka Emily Tempestová se od puberty toulala po celém světě – studovala, cestovala, pracovala..., a nikde doopravdy nezakotvila a nenašla klid. Proto se vrací do Měsíčního údolí, australské osady, kde kdysi strávila dětství. I když je její otec běloch, cítí se součástí domorodého světa své matky a vnímá skutečnost magickým pohledem těch, jimž tato země odedávna patřila. Krátce po jejím příjezdu do tábora je zavražděn dávný přítel a kmenový vůdce Lincoln a viník je okamžitě k mání: podivín Blakie, až příliš horlivý ochránce tradic a strážce posvátných míst. Podle všeho je Lincolnova smrt rituální vraždou, trestem za porušení kmenových zákonů, a policie z blízkého městečka hodlá případ uzavřít. Emily však brzy začne pochybovat a zjišťuje, že skutečný motiv k vraždě je docela jiný. Autor tak rozehrává napínavý detektivní příběh se svéráznou hrdinkou, jejíž ženský pohled na svět dodává celému příběhu neobyčejný rozměr. Příběh plný záhad a podivných náhod nabízí zasvěcený vhled do života domorodců s jejich rituály, posvátnými místy a sněním uprostřed pouštní krajiny australského vnitrozemí. V kontrastu s jejich tradicemi stojí ubíjející a prázdný kolotoč života malého, „civilizovaného“ města. Hrdinové jsou vylíčeni s mimořádnou barvitostí a tvoří pestrý kolorit dokonale vystihující život v tomto zapadlém koutu země. Nad to vše vyniká autorův styl plný břitkého humoru a živých dialogů. Diamantová holubice je předzvěstí série detektivních příběhů z australského vnitrozemí, jehož hrdinka Emily představuje novou ženskou hrdinku coby amatérskou vyšetřovatelku.

Diamantová holubice

‘The writing is generous and whip-smart, with sentences that will stop readers in their tracks to savour them ... Heart-racing twists propel the novel to its denouement, while the oppressive heat and arid landscape add an extra layer of threat to the unfolding drama.’- Books + Publishing Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s body, the whole town assumes it’s an open and shut case. But Jesse Redpath isn’t from Canticle Creek. Where she comes from, the truth often hides in plain sight, but only if you know where to look. When Jesse starts to ask awkward questions, she uncovers a town full of contradictions and a cast of characters with dark pasts, secrets to hide and even more to lose. As the temperature soars, and the ground bakes, the wilderness surrounding Canticle Creek becomes a powderkeg waiting to explode. All it needs is one spark. A twisty crime thriller set in small town Australia perfect for readers of The Dry and Scrublands.

Peter Torberg

Emily Tempest, Tochter eines weissen Minenarbeiters und einer Aborigine, kehrt an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück. Der Mord an einem Mitglied ihres Clans lässt ihr keine Ruhe und sie begibt sich auf die gefährliche Suche nach Motiv und Täter.

Kriminalroman

Outback bastard

After being away from home for ten years, Emily Tempest, the daughter of a white Australian prospector and an Aboriginal woman, returns to Moonlight Downs and finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the leader of the camp is slain.

Adrian Hyland

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