Reviews of Death In Green

‘Excellent thriller with a topical green theme.’
Peterborough Evening Telegraph

‘A taut, well-plotted thriller.’
Gloucester Citizen

‘… a good old fashioned whodunnit by an Aussie author - and a very talented one.’
David Halpin, Gold Coast Bulletin

 

Sleeve Notes:

Mitchell Island, a rare sand island off the Queensland coast, has become the focus of conflict between timber workers who want to continue to log its abundant forests and conservationists who seek to ban logging. Into this potential battleground comes Damien White, ecologist and presenter of a popular TV series, to film a documentary on the island at the invitation of Hugh Grant, head of the anti-logging campaign.

Before White arrives, there is an attempt on Grant’s life, seemingly by someone in Eversleigh, the mainland town which owes its existence to logging, followed by an attack by ‘Greenies’ on the manager of the timber mill. Then White’s scriptwriter is found drowned in suspicious circumstances.

Children’s author Micky Douglas agrees to step in to complete the script but is torn between his allegiance to White, his friendship with Inspector Reeves who is investigating the scriptwriter’s death, his love for Annie Mason, also working for White, and his loyalty to his friend, journalist Duke Jordan, with whom he sets out to investigate the possibility that the warring groups are being secretly manipulated by someone with quite different plans for the island.

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