Moonlight Downs

"Packs a real wallop. . . . An epic and ambitious mystery set against the vast backdrop of Central Australia, where indigenous and white people live side by side in an uneasy truce."--Vogue (Australia) "Incorporates geophysical data, race politics and aboriginal spirituality into a seamless, often hilarious stream of narrative. [It] has all the hallmarks of a first of a very successful series with the potential to forge a new sub-genre of detective fiction--that of a feisty, female indigenous sleuth whose intelligence and tenacity prove superior to force and ignorance."--The Sydney Morning Herald "Witty, knowing, at times downright hilarious. The plot is absorbing and Hyland's characters are originals. . . . As Emily Tempest untangles the knot of a murder, she also comes to rediscover her past, her belonging and her self."--Brisbane Courier Mail Emily Tempest, a feisty part-aboriginal woman, left home to get an education and has...