Martin Scarsden is back, and so is the sort of cinematic Australian setting that helped his first adventure, Scrublands , establish itself in the imagination of readers.

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Back then, it was the drought-stricken NSW Riverina. With Legacy , it is the true outback, the desert in the far west of the state, where locals await a much-anticipated flood.

Author Chris Hammer. Pictures by John Hanscombe, Stan

Legacy is different in other ways from Scrublands . Instead of Martin investigating a murder, he's on the run. Someone is trying to kill him, but he doesn't know who or why.

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