This deep dive into Kangaroo Island uncovers a hotbed of envy, wealth and hubris, environmental wars and post-colonial tensions, with a murder thrown in.

Quite the insider piece of crime fiction from an author born in Greece who was adopted into an Australian family and has a law degree, a PhD in biomedical science and lives in Canberra I found myself looking up details wondering if they were true.

Each layer of the story is dense with interest. Richard Marlowe, ruggedly handsome and stupidly rich, speeds through a blackened landscape damaged by bushfires. He and his wife Holly live in a temple of design which the locals dislike as an intrusive display of wealth that dominates the natural setting. Marlowe greets Holly and his two Samoyeds then retires with a crystal snifter of scotch pou

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