Bone Lands
Published on 26. March 2024
384 pages
978-1-923046-55-9 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF BEST CRIME FICTION at the 2025 Danger Awards.
Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti is a gripping Australian crime novel following Detective Gus Hawkins into a remote town where secrets, violence and buried pasts collide.
'Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?'
1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher.
Detectives arrive from Sydney and the disgraced Hawkins, a traumatised veteran of the Boer War, comes under fierce scrutiny. With his honour and sanity at stake, he becomes hell-bent on finding the murderer. But as ever darker secrets are revealed about the people he thinks of as friends, Hawkins is forced to confront an uncomfortable question: who is paying the price for the new nation's prosperity?
Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti is a gripping Australian crime novel following Detective Gus Hawkins into a remote town where secrets, violence and buried pasts collide.
'Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?'
1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher.
Detectives arrive from Sydney and the disgraced Hawkins, a traumatised veteran of the Boer War, comes under fierce scrutiny. With his honour and sanity at stake, he becomes hell-bent on finding the murderer. But as ever darker secrets are revealed about the people he thinks of as friends, Hawkins is forced to confront an uncomfortable question: who is paying the price for the new nation's prosperity?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
Australia
File size
4,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-923046-55-9 (9781923046559)
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PIP FIORETTI has a professional background in visual arts, both practice and teaching, and took up writing fiction in 2008. She had had three commercial women's fiction novels published by Hachette Australia and Pan MacMillan. Her first crime novel in the beloved Gus Hawkins series was Bone Lands, published by Affirm Press in 2024 to broad acclaim and won the 2025 Danger Award for Crime Fiction. Its follow-up, Skull River was published in 2025 with the third in the series, Blood Moon due for publication in 2027. Pip lives in Sydney and likes reading, looking at art, bushwalking and hanging out with friends and family.
