The Sheep's Back

A Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller

Wool is currency. Silence is tradition. And a man lies dead with his own blades in his chest.

In a Warragulla shearing shed, a body is found splayed across the board — a wool classer who knew too much about how fleeces get graded and whose pockets they fill.

Detective Maya Thorne arrives expecting a rural homicide. What she finds is an industry rotten to the core. Fraudulent classifications. Rigged auctions. Land siphoned from desperate farmers into the hands of two people who've controlled the district's wool trade for decades: Sarah Kingsley, a landowner with a legacy to protect, and Nathan Crawford, a broker whose influence reaches from the shearing floor to Parliament.

The dead man kept records. Now those records are missing — and the people who wanted them buried are watching Maya's every move.

In Warragulla, grudges outlive rainfall. And in a town where drought has stripped away everything but secrets, someone is still willing to kill to keep theirs.

For fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher.

Book 10 in the Maya Thorne series.