Gabe Ahern is back! Although No Trace is a follow-on from Wild Dogs, it still reads well as a stand alone. Gabe is a dogger, an eliminator of wild dogs which are the scourge of land owners in outback Western Australia.
Michael Trant is a brilliant writer and, if anything, No Trace is even better than Wild Dogs. Gabe is an unforgettable character, a true blue man of the bush who is nursing a broken heart, and probably suffering with PTSD from having been involved in a shocking incident in his recent past. He is also sure that someone involved in that incident will come looking for him; consequently, he is staying at a remote station and working for his friend, Cameron.
Michael Trant’s writing flows effortlessly, introducing new characters and making them all believable. He is, obviously, a keen observer of his fellow humans. As is usual in outback noir, the landscape plays an important part in the story and there is an absolutely nail biting denouement.
I highly recommend No Trace to lovers of character driven mystery/action fiction. We have a lot of very good writers in Australia, and Michael Trant is right up there with the best of them.
Published by Penguin Random House
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