Canticle Creek

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Set in the near future, Michael C Grumley’s new thriller Deep Freeze probes issues surrounding the quest for immortality. But this is to expected with Adrian Hyland's stories and the way he interweaves his ecological and indigenous cultural knowledge into the storyline.

Having a lone female protagonist, strong and good-hearted with no romantic subplot made this a marvellous read.Jesse's a fabulous, strong, believable character who arrives in Victoria determined to find the truth no matter what. Even for me with my love of description and atmosphere, this was all a little too much and although I kept reading I too often found myself struggling to engage, putting the book down in frustration, to pick up something else in between. You can almost feel the blanketing heat and crunch of dry foliage underfoot while reading Canticle Creek . However, Jess Redpath – not a local to Canticle Creek – knows Adam and she does not believe him capable of murder.

Hyland’s description of the relentless heat of high summer and a parched landscape waiting to erupt into fire are very evocative and will be familiar to many Australians. Although we didn’t see very much of Danny, I did enjoy the mutual respect the two officers had for one another. When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s body, the whole town assumes it’s an open and shut case. 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.When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker's body, the whole town assumes it's an open and shut case.

Knowing this didn’t sound like the Adam she knew, Jesse and her Dad headed to Canticle Creek, the small Victorian town where Adam had been living to find out more about what happened. Canticle Creek is a thoroughly absorbing and highly compelling read which I loved from start to finish. Jesse Redpath works for NT Police, posted as Leading Senior Constable in the remote, 2-person station at Kulara. Canticle Creek is the first book in 10 years from Aussie author Adrian Hyland and it was well worth waiting for! 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.As the temperature soars, the wilderness nearby becomes a powderkeg waiting to explode with just a spark.