I had intended to spend this afternoon catching up with some reviews.
But the postwoman delivered a parcel this morning and in it was a thing of great joy.
Something I've been anticipating for quite a while.
The sequel to THE BROKEN SHORE
I promise I will catch up on reviews for other excellent books I've read recently, but I'm a little distracted.
From the Blurb:
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.
Opening Lines:
On the Westgate Bridge, behind them in a flat in Altona, a dead woman, a girl really, dirty hair, dyed red, pale roots, she was stabbed too many times to count, stomach, chest, back, face.
TRUTH is out in October.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.
Villani's job as head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. His life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling.