Moonlight Downs: An Emily Tempest Investigation

Hyland, Adrian

ISBN 10: 1569474834 / ISBN 13: 9781569474839

Published by Soho Crime, New York, USA, 2008

About this Item

First US edition / printing. Previously published in Australia as 'Diamond Dove'. Binding firm in clean cream and brown quarter cloth boards. Silver titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all excellent. Text pages are also very good with no markings. Flat signed by author to title page. D/J is unclipped with just very light shelf wear. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Seller Inventory # 008238

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moonlight Downs: An Emily Tempest Investigation
• Publisher: Soho Crime, New York, USA
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569474834
• ISBN 13: 9781569474839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

“Packs a real wallop. . . . An epic and ambitious mystery set against the vast backdrop of Central Australia, where indigenous and white people live side by side in an uneasy truce.”—Vogue (Australia)

“Incorporates geophysical data, race politics and aboriginal spirituality into a seamless, often hilarious stream of narrative. [It] has all the hallmarks of a first of a very successful series with the potential to forge a new sub-genre of detective fiction—that of a feisty, female indigenous sleuth whose intelligence and tenacity prove superior to force and ignorance.”—The Sydney Morning Herald

“Witty, knowing, at times downright hilarious. The plot is absorbing and Hyland’s characters are originals. . . . As Emily Tempest untangles the knot of a murder, she also comes to rediscover her past, her belonging and her self.”—Brisbane Courier Mail

Emily Tempest, a feisty part-aboriginal woman, left home to get an education and has since traveled abroad. She returns to visit the Moonlight Downs “mob,” still uncertain if she belongs in the aboriginal world or that of the whitefellers. Within hours of her arrival, an old friend is murdered and mutilated. The police suspect a rogue aborigine, but Emily starts asking questions. Emily Tempest, a modern half-aboriginal sleuth, is a welcome successor to Arthur Upfield’s classic detective.

Adrian Hyland worked with aboriginal communities in Central Australia for ten years.  He now teaches at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. This is his first novel.

About the Author

Adrian Hyland won Australia's Ned Kelly 2007 Award for Best First Novel for Moonlight Downs. He spent many years in the Northern Territory living and working among the indigenous people. He now teaches at LaTrobe University and lives in Melbourne.