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Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate. Within minutes of his arrival, it's clear that Cobb is not the same place he left. Once it thrived, but now it's a poor and derelict dusthole, with the local police chief it deserves. And as Manolis negotiates his new colleagues' antagonism, and the simmering anger of a community destroyed by alcohol and drugs, the ghosts of his past begin to flicker to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vivid, pacy and almost dangerously atmospheric, \u003ci\u003eThe Stoning\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in a new series of outback noir featuring DS Manolis, himself an outsider, and a good man in a world gone to hell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204702240946,"sku":"9781529416992","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529416992_f8dfce7c-1758-440c-b244-667d391aa902.jpg?v=1786023499"},{"product_id":"9781529424515","title":"The Pit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Outback noir has a new star\" Mark Sanderson, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are accompanied on the drive by another nursing home resident: Luke, thirty years old, paralysed in a motorbike accident. As they embark on their road trip through the guts of Western Australia, pursued by outback police and adrenaline-soaked miners, Sparrow begins to suspect that Bob's desire to head north may have sinister motivations. Is Luke being held against his will? 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But times are changing: multimillionaires from the mainland are building immense clifftop mansions and filling the skies with private planes and helicopters. A quiet paradise is being transformed into a bolthole for the rich and privileged. And the locals aren't happy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Marlowe, a wealthy \"blow-in\" to the island, goes missing, last seen wading into the ocean for a dawn swim. A shark attack is blamed, but things don't add up. Reuniting for a new investigation, Detective Sergeant Manolis and Senior Constable Sparrow arrive on the island, but their presence isn't welcomed, either. 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