Reviews of Deathwater

 

This Jacket is not meant to be a true representation of Aboriginal art and it was never intended to cuase offence to any persons.

‘If Anne Infante keeps on writing as well as this, she has an enviable future ahead of her – and Aussie readers will be able to enjoy world class yarns set in our own backyard!’ David Halpin, Gold Coast Bulletin ‘Infante keeps you turning the pages … a born storyteller.’ Peter Dean, Courier Mail

Sleeve Notes:

Darkwater is a historic home near Brisbane, still owned by the Forrests, the pioneer family whose founder built it in colonial times. Journalist Bob Slater, who is writing an article about the house and family for a local paper, is killed in a car accident on a dark wet night in the steep and dangerous Kaye Street, so children’s author Micky Douglas agrees to finish the article.

But Bob’s death bears an uncanny resemblance to that of William, son of the autocratic Eileen Forrest, in the same spot sixteen years previously and, after finding a cryptic message doodled by Bob Slater shortly before he died, Micky begins to wonder just how ‘accidental’ both deaths really were.

Driven by curiosity, Micky sets out to investigate and, in spite of being warned by his friend Inspector Reeves uncovers a deadly plot to suppress and old scandal of Government and police corruption, the truth about the supposed suicide of Eileen Forrest’s husband, a horrific crime against the original native tribe which once inhabited the Darkwater land – and a cunning murderer who is determined to remove Micky before he discovers the truth.

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