Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; whom everyone wants to blame. But Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a simple robbery gone wrong.--From publisher description.
- ISBN10 0374116938
- ISBN13 9780374116934
- Publish Date 29 May 2007 (first published 1 August 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 357
- Language English