Dead Man's Creek

Informationen zum Autor Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs program Dateline. He has reported from more than thirty countries on six continents. Chris's non-fiction book, The River , published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award. Scrublands , his first novel, was published in 2018 and won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, as well as being shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction at the Indie Book Awards, and Best General Fiction at the ABIA Awards. It has also been longlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel of the Year. Scrublands was released as a TV series in 2023, distributed in the UK by BBC Four. Chris has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master's degree in international relations from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife, Dr Tomoko Akami. The couple have two children. Klappentext Old bones sink - but secrets always rise to the surface. Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns frustrated to her hometown, assigned to a decades-old murder. But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town community. As more bodies are discovered, and she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her, Nell realises that finding the truth could prove more difficult - and dangerous - than she'd ever expected. The nearer Nell comes to uncovering the secrets of the past, the more treacherous her path becomes. Can she survive to root out the truth, and what price will she have to pay for it? Praise for Chris Hammer: 'Commanding, consuming and outright thrilling mystery.' - Chris Whitaker 'Utterly brilliant - an Australian Where The Crawdads Sing .' - Dervla McTiernan ' Dead Man's Creek is a superb piece of storytelling' - William Shaw 'Classic Hammer. A crime novel that will stay with me for a long time.' Ann Cleeves 'I doubt I'll read a better novel this year.' - The Times 'Grasps the reader like poison ivy, never once losing its hypnotic grip: both compelling and masterful. - Daily Mail 'Shimmers . . . A tortured tale of blood and loss' Val McDermid [Wildfire logo] £8.99 Vorwort The blistering new thriller from award-winning Chris Hammer, author of Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year Scrublands and Times Crime Book of the Month Opal Country . Zusammenfassung A dam breaks. A body rises from the flood. Hidden for decades, can this small town face the secrets that will surface? THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Young detective Nell Buchanan uncovers a deadly, decades-old mystery at the heart of her rural hometown in this stunning thriller from award-winning author Chris Hammer. 'A commanding, consuming and outright thrilling mystery. Chris Hammer's first-class series goes from strength to strength.' - Chris Whitaker 'Utterly brilliant, a darkly simmering mystery.' - Dervla McTiernan 'Chris Hammer is at the height of his power here. Dead Man's Creek is a superb piece of storytelling' - William Shaw 'I doubt I'll read a better novel this year.' - The Times Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder - a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome a...

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Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs program Dateline. He has reported from more than thirty countries on six continents.

Chris's non-fiction book, The River, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award. Scrublands, his first novel, was published in 2018 and won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, as well as being shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction at the Indie Book Awards, and Best General Fiction at the ABIA Awards. It has also been longlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel of the Year. Scrublands was released as a TV series in 2023, distributed in the UK by BBC Four.

Chris has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master's degree in international relations from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife, Dr Tomoko Akami. The couple have two children.

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Old bones sink - but secrets always rise to the surface.

Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns frustrated to her hometown, assigned to a decades-old murder.

But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town community. As more bodies are discovered, and she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her, Nell realises that finding the truth could prove more difficult - and dangerous - than she'd ever expected.

The nearer Nell comes to uncovering the secrets of the past, the more treacherous her path becomes. Can she survive to root out the truth, and what price will she have to pay for it?

Praise for Chris Hammer:

'Commanding, consuming and outright thrilling mystery.' - Chris Whitaker

'Utterly brilliant - an Australian Where The Crawdads Sing.' - Dervla McTiernan

'Dead Man's Creek is a superb piece of storytelling' - William Shaw

'Classic Hammer. A crime novel that will stay with me for a long time.' Ann Cleeves

'I doubt I'll read a better novel this year.' - *The Times

• 'Grasps the reader like poison ivy, never once losing its hypnotic grip: both compelling and masterful. - Daily Mail

'Shimmers . . . A tortured tale of blood and loss' Val McDermid

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Résumé
The blistering new thriller from award-winning Chris Hammer, author of Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year Scrublands and Times Crime Book of the Month Opal Country.