Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel (2007). Shortly after Emily Tempest returns to Moonlight Downs, the Aboriginal community of her childhood, her best friend"s father is murdered. Blame immediately falls upon Blakie, the community"'s...

Emily Tempest: short, loud, sharp as a taipan"s tooth. Last seen in the award-winning Diamond Dove, Emily has a new job: an Aboriginal Community Police Officer. A cop. Not quite what she had in mind when she returned to Central Australia. But for an...