Miles Off Course - Couverture souple

Gentill, Sulari

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857303619 ISBN 13 : 9780857303615

Editeur : Crime & Mystery Club Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

The third Rowland Sinclair mystery

It is 1933 and wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair is enjoying a leisurely sojourn in the luxury Hydro Majestic Hotel in the Blue Mountains. As ever, he is accompanied by his entourage a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress. The Depression-era troubles of the wider world seem far away. Until long-time Sinclair family ally and employee Harry Simpson disappears.

Rowland must leave for the High Country to find Harry. He encounters resentful stockmen, dangerous gangsters and threatening belligerence all round. With his trusted friends help, he uncovers a dark conspiracy which suddenly renders the beautiful Australian outback very sinister...

Sulari Gentill expertly weaves real events and personalities into her tension-fuelled murder mysteries which are sure to enthral lovers of deep intrigue and history.

'A sparkling crime series... Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie...' - The Age

'Gentill has turned her deft touch to weave little-known details of Australian political intrigue into an engrossing, easy-read mystery novel' - Daily Telegraph

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

A reformed lawyer, Sulari Gentill is the author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, ten historical crime novels (thus far) chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist; the Hero Trilogy, based on the myths and epics of the ancient world; and a standalone mystery called After She Wrote Him, for which she won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award.  She lives with her husband, Michael, and their boys, Edmund and Atticus, on a small farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains in Australia, where she grows French Black Truffles and writes.

Sulari has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Best First Book, won the 2012 Davitt Award for Crime Fiction, been shortlisted in 2013 and the 2015 Davitt Award, the 2015 Ned Kelly Award, the 2015 and 2016 Australian Book Industry Award for Best Adult Book, the NSW Genre Fiction Award, commended in the FAW Jim Hamilton Award and offered a Varuna Fellowship. She was the inaugural Eminent Writer in Residence at the Museum of Australian Democracy, and toured the US in 2019 as an ambassador of Australian Crime Fiction. The Woman In The Library, her latest novel, will be released in June 2022.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Crime & Mystery Club Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857303619
• ISBN 13: 9780857303615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible