The bluff
Jenkins, Joanna2025
Book
People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off. Adored. By some anyway. World at his feet. Well, Myddle at his feet, which was his world. Ruth Dawson has taken a break from big city law to fill in for a few months at a mate's small-town legal practice in Myddle. It's not what she's used to ... So when she hears the front door of her office open she's expecting a weird demand, or a question she doesn't know the answer to. But it's Bea Baulderstone's mum, worried that she hasn't seen her seventeen-year-old daughter for five days, and Constable Gazza Parker is refusing to report the girl missing. Ruth tries to find Bea, but Myddle is a wall of indifference. Then Dash Rogers is found at his farm gate, dead from a gunshot wound, and suddenly the town is very interested in Bea's whereabouts.An unputdownable thriller of deception and greed, The Bluff reveals an enmeshed web of family and community loyalties, set in the lush rural hinterland of east coast Australia.
Main title:
The bluff / Joanna Jenkins.
Author:
Jenkins, Joanna, author
Work:
Imprint:
Cammeraygal Country, Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2025.
Collation:
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
97817614706461761470647
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
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Subject:
Dawson, Ruth (Fictitious character) -- FictionAboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- FictionCountry life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- FictionCountry life -- New South Wales -- FictionMissing persons -- Investigation -- FictionMurder -- Investigation -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionSmall cities -- Australia -- New South Wales -- FictionSmall cities -- New South Wales -- FictionWomen lawyers -- FictionNew South Wales -- FictionNew South Wales -- Ethnic relations -- FictionAustralian fictionLegal fiction (Literature)Thrillers (Fiction)
BRN:
173693