Outback by Patricia Wolf
$7.99
Outback
- By: Patricia Wolf
- Narrated by: Adam Fitzgerald
- Series: DS Walker, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Publisher's Summary
The Number 1 Internationally Bestselling Ebook, perfect for fans of The Dry by Jane Harper.
Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2023
TWO MISSING BACKPACKERS. ONE VAST OUTBACK.
DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on the case.
But why all the interest from the Federal Police when they have probably just ditched the heat and dust of the outback for the coast? Working in the organised crime unit has opened Walker's eyes to the growing drug trade in Australia's remote interior - and he becomes convinced there is more at play.
As the number of days since the couple's disappearance climbs, Walker is joined by Rita's older sister. A detective herself with Berlin CID, she has flown to Australia - desperate to find her sister.
Their search becomes ever more urgent as temperatures soar. Even if Walker does find the young couple, will it be too late?
This deeply atmospheric thriller is the gripping opening of a new crime series for fans of Cara Hunter and Chris Whitaker.
Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2023.
©2022 Patricia Wolf (P)2022 Bonnier Books UK
Tom ARMITT
Ok story but tired old tropes
The Author hails from outback Queensland yet uses the one stereo type to describe and provide any depth to outback persons and Characters, being suspicious, anti authoritarian, gruff and generally dumb. Yet hailing from this area myself they are actually generally friendly, educated and highly approving and supporting of police. It’s a given that when writing a crime story that some people should be described as the former, but all of them? The story is frustratingly shallow on occasions and the police decidedly wanting. The worst is that the research is shallow to the most basic of police terminology and structure. Either way it gets you to the end but not really wanting more.
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Anonymous User
Good thriller for a 12year old.
Jeepers I nodded off more times than I’d like too admit. That German accent for Babs made my ears bleed. Not a fan of this author.
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