Bony Buys a WomanThis is the 22nd instalment in Mr. Upfields detective series featuring the Australian Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Yorky, one of the locals and a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony's approach changes everything.

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'An outstanding debut - ingenious

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One of my favourite reads of the year' Abir Mukherjee

The suspense inexorably builds to a stunning climax

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' Peter Swanson

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But the only thing scarier than little Eva Reyes' dreams - apocalyptic visions of death and destruction - is the habit they have of coming true