The Sheep's Back

A Maya Thorne Australian Outback Thriller

De: Phillip Strang

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the drought-ravaged town of Warragulla, where wool is currency and silence is tradition, a man is found dead—his body splayed in a shearing shed, his own blades buried in his chest.

Detective Maya Thorne arrives expecting a rural homicide. What she uncovers is a decades-old deception woven into the very fabric of the wool industry: fraudulent classifications, rigged auctions, and land quietly siphoned from desperate farmers into the hands of the powerful.

At the centre of it all: Sarah Kingsley, a landowner with a legacy to protect, and Nathan Crawford, a broker whose influence stretches from the shearing floor to Parliament.

As Maya digs deeper, she finds evidence of an illegal water scheme contaminating the land—and a trail of property transfers that point to a systematic betrayal of the district’s most vulnerable.

But Warragulla is a place where grudges outlive rainfall, and justice doesn’t always arrive in uniform. With pressure mounting and loyalties fraying, Maya must read the landscape as closely as the evidence—because in a town where drought has stripped away everything but secrets, someone is still willing to kill to keep theirs buried.