Rising Dust by Fleur McDonald is an exciting, dramatic crime novel set on a large sheep station which is bordered on one side by thirty kilometres of the Western Australian coastline. The scenery is spectacular from acres of dry, dusty land carpeted with white, yellow and pink wildflowers, the earth turning to red after a massive, dry-breaking storm, to the white sands and turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.
Detectives Dave Burrows and Bob Holden are investigating alleged stock theft when they uncover evidence of something much more sinister. Although this book is part of a series and there are references to previous happenings, the new story is complete in itself and makes for absolutely compulsive reading.
Glimpses into Dave’s personal life add to the interest and enjoyment of the story and there is lots of outback action with Dave participating in mustering sheep, looking for discrepancies in the size of the flock, as well as coming up against criminal activity back at the Station.
Fleur McDonald is brilliant at putting together an imaginative, well balanced, timely story. There are so many good writers in Australia today and Fleur McDonald is up there with the best of them!
Published by Allen & Unwin
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