When she arrived she introduced herself to the local police as an acquaintance of Adam Lawson with a casual interest in the case. Also, the readers will understand that they can not save everyone if they do not want to help themselves. As the temperature soars, the wilderness nearby becomes a powderkeg waiting to explode with just a spark. I kept reading because there were some elegant turns of phrase, but I never truly found it plausible.

A few months later Jesse was shocked to hear Adam had been found dead, but what she finds out next is unbelievable and she knows she needs to find out what happened because as far as she was concerned Adam Lawson was not capable of murder or was he.Where you will meet artists, drug dealers, an observant young girl, a feisty horse and a police officer on an unofficial investigation to prove a young man, who she saved from the system, innocent of murder. When Adam's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy's body, the whole town assumes it's an open-and-shut case. When at home in the Northern Territory of Kulara, Redpath works with Danny Jakamarra, an Aboriginal Community Police Officer.

Adrian Hyland is the award-winning author of Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road and Kinglake-350, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2012.Jesse’s an appealing protagonist, a thoughtful and capable and police officer, with investigative skills learnt from Danny Jakamarra, the Aboriginal Community Police Officer, whom she works with in Kulara. The plot is well written with other memorable characters, moving along at a good pace with increasing tension as further deaths occur and Jesse herself becomes a target. To me there was contradiction, rather than complexity, in her character and she just didn't sit right with me. The book is set in a small town in the outbacks of Australia, Jesse is a police officer trying to do good and bring compassion to the job.