DUST AND MARROW

(A gritty outback noir thriller of vengeance, guilt, and outback redemption)

De: JACK GOODWIN

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the scorched red heart of Australia's outback, where the dust never settles and the mines hold secrets deeper than their shafts, a killer is carving a path of vengeance through Broken Hill.Til Danbury, a battle-hardened cop exiled from Sydney after a narcolepsy blackout that cost her partner his life, arrives in this rugged mining town as a last-chance redemption.

Haunted by guilt and fighting her body's betrayals with a fistful of pills, Til is thrust into a grisly investigation when local miner Jack is found slaughtered in a dusty gully, throat slashed ear-to-ear, entrails spilling into the crimson dirt, and a cracked bone etched with symbols of collapsing beams jammed into his wound.

As more bodies pile up, shopkeepers disemboweled, protesters desecrated in mock rituals, the bones reveal a chilling puzzle: carvings that map a long-buried scandal from the 1976 mine collapse, where twelve men, including brash hustler George Higgins' father, were crushed in what was no accident but a sabotage for profit. George's return to transform Broken Hill into "Australia's Las Vegas" stirs old grudges, his vendetta fueled by grief and greed, but the murders bear twisted Aboriginal motifs, dots and tracks faked to scapegoat the local elders and ignite racial fires in a town already simmering with land rights battles.

With the clock ticking on a 48-hour ultimatum from Sydney brass, Til allies with Floyd, the pub bartender and paramedic hiding his own mining tragedy; Ngarra, a wise elder piercing through the lies; and a cast of suspects including her condescending boss, Senior Sergeant Frank Tegan, whose grizzled exterior masks decades of corruption. Blackouts strike at the worst moments, mid-chase through stampeding cattle pens, in the suffocating depths of abandoned shafts, turning every step into a pulse-pounding gamble against her own frailty.

But as Til unearths the marrow beneath the dust - betrayals, affairs, blackmails, and a web of small-town sins - she realizes the killer isn't just avenging the past; they're burying the present. In a land where ghosts rise with the red storms, Til must confront her demons, navigate explosive riots, and face shocking twists that shatter alliances and expose the town's rotten core.

Dust and Marrow is a gritty neo-noir thriller pulsing with visceral gore, heart-stopping suspense, and the raw resilience of the outback. Will Til stay awake long enough to unmask the monster, or will the dust claim her too?

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Chris Hammer, this tale of buried truths and bloody reckonings will keep you turning pages into the dead of night.