{"product_id":"moonlight-downs-isbn-9781569475263","title":"Moonlight Downs","description":"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.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMoonlight Downs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] beguiling first mystery.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBrisbane Courier Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAdrian Hyland won Australia’s 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel for \u003ci\u003eMoonlight Downs\u003c\/i\u003e. Its follow-up, \u003ci\u003eGunshot Road\u003c\/i\u003e,  was runner-up for the Colin Roderick Award for Australian literature.  He spent many years in the Northern Territory living and working among  the indigenous people. He lives in Victoria.","brand":"Soho Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304416366821,"sku":"NP9781569475263","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781569475263.jpg?v=1767732952","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/moonlight-downs-isbn-9781569475263","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}