Headland

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 289 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. An Abandoned Town. Three Young Police Officers Left Behind. With A Killer.

Publishers Description: A coastal town is evacuated after record floods. Three young police officers are left behind. With a killer.The small beachside town of Gloster is on the edge of disaster. After constant rain, floodwaters are rising fast.Detective Constable Craig Watson, exiled to Gloster from Sydney, is a young man with a damaged past and an uncertain future.Constables Ellie Cameron and Larissa Brookes are young women struggling to show their worth as police officers under a misogynistic sergeant.The drowning town holds a secret that someone is prepared to murder for, and as the floodwaters cut Gloster off from the world the three young police officers begin to understand that its not just them left stranded. Somewhere out there in the floodwaters is a killer. And he needs them dead.Taut, compelling and visceral, John Byrnes Headland announces a major new voice in Australian crime fiction.

ISBN: 9781761067617